Hugh Salmon

Hugh Salmon is a British advertising executive and playwright, who wrote the play Into Battle.[1]

Early career

As the creator of SFX Cassette Magazine, the music magazine on audio cassette launched in 1982, Salmon pursued a career in advertising, media and marketing. He is the son of Gerald Mordaunt Broome Salmon and the brother of rugby player, Jamie Salmon. He later became managing director of CM:Lintas in London, and was in a five-year legal dispute to clear his name following accusations by the agency, which were eventually dropped by Lintas.[2] The case was closed when Salmon was awarded significant damages and Lintas made a formal apology.[3][4]

Into Battle

His stage play Into Battle received its premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in London in October 2021.[5][6][7]

The play tells the story of a bitter feud between the privileged Old Etonians at Balliol College, Oxford and a more socially aware group of non-Etonians during the run-up to the First World War.[5] Among its cast of characters are Lady Ettie Grenfell, Baroness Desborough, war poets, Julian Grenfell and Patrick Shaw-Stewart, and England rugby captain, Ronald Poulton.

Books

  • 2012 — Do as You Would Be Done By
  • 2016 — Thoughts on Life and Advertising
  • 2017 — Ideas for Britain
  • 2025 — The Faintest of Tickles - a new anthology of cricket writing with a Foreword by Daniel Norcross

References

  1. ^ Brooks, Richard (26 September 2021). "'Elite v plebs': The Oxford rivalries of boys who would never grow up to be men". The Observer.
  2. ^ "Lintas suffers pounds 1m hit in Salmon case". www.campaignlive.co.uk. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Lintas settles out of court with fired managing director". Marketing Week. 10 April 1997. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  4. ^ Lynn, Matthew (October 1, 1998). "The whistle blower's dilemma". Management Today: 54–60 – via go.gale.com.
  5. ^ a b Brooks, Richard (26 September 2021). "'Elite v plebs': the Oxford rivalries of boys who would never grow up to be men". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  6. ^ Purves, Libby. "Flawed heroes teach us to forgive and forget". The Times. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
  7. ^ Slot, Owen. "The unlikely class warrior who tackled English rugby's bias". The Times. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
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