Mail executive Gordon Cowan dies at age of 94

• Former Daily Mail executive Gordon Cowan has died at the age of 94 
• Mr Cowan joined the Mail in 1951 and remained with the paper for 36 years
• He worked firstly as a sub-editor before going on to hold several senior positions

Former Daily Mail executive Gordon Cowan has died at the age of 94.

Glasgow-born Mr Cowan joined the Mail in 1951 and remained with the paper for 36 years. 

He worked firstly as a sub-editor before going on to hold several senior positions on the paper, including that of managing editor – his post at the time of his retirement in 1987.

Former Daily Mail executive Gordon Cowan has died at the age of 94. Glasgow-born Mr Cowan joined the Mail in 1951 and remained with the paper for 36 years (pictured: Daily Mail’s former offices)

He had a key role under Editor Sir David English when the Mail was relaunched as a compact newspaper in 1971 and later was sent secretly to America to study modern printing techniques.

At the height of the IRA terror campaign in London, Mr Cowan and other executives once removed a parked car near the Mail’s Fleet Street offices after printers refused to work, fearing it contained a bomb. 

It didn’t but his actions meant the presses could roll.

After he retired, father-of-four Mr Cowan and his wife Dilys settled in a flat overlooking the sea in Devon.

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