proposed that Mr. Giles assume the title "editor emeritus" for the two years remaining before his retirement. Mr. Giles asked what on earth "editor emeritus" meant. "It's Latin, Frank," Mr. Murdoch reportedly replied. " E means 'exit' and meritus means 'you deserve it.'" Giles published a memoir in 1986, Sundry Times. In his retirement, he lived in London. He turned 100 in July 2019 and died on 30 October that year. He was a member of the Society of Dilettanti, Brooks's Club, and Beefsteak Clubs and a member of the St James's Club. In 2009, his 'Hobbies and other interests' were listed as 'Wine (especially claret and burgundy), opera, watercolor painting, visiting his holiday home in northern Corfu, Greece'. Bibliography Frank Giles: Sundry Times. London, John Murray, 1986. . Frank Giles: A prince of journalists, the life and times of Henri Stefan Opper de Blowitz. Lasalle, Open Court, 1974. (1st ed.: London, Faber and Faber, 1962). Frank Giles: Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner (), Carroll & Graf (New York, NY), 2001. (Editor) Corfu: The Garden Isle, presented by Count Spiro Flamburiari, photographs by Fritz von der Schulenburg and Christopher Simon Sykes, John Murray (London) and Abbeville Press (New York, NY), 1994. Frank Giles: The Locust Years: The Story of the Fourth French Republic, 1946–1958, Secker & Warburg (London, England), 1991, Carroll & Graf (New York, NY), 1994. References 1919 births 2019 deaths Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford British diplomats British Army personnel of World War II British newspaper editors English Anglicans English centenarians English historians English male journalists English memoirists English newspaper editors Men centenarians People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire The Sunday Times people The Times people