Alexander, Stanley Walter (1895–1980), financial journalist and editor, was born on 16 November 1895 at 35 Harcourt Road, Deptford, London, the son of Walter Henry Alexander, board of works clerk, and his wife, Alice Maude Mary Kemp. He left the Roan School, Greenwich...
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Andrews, Sir (William) Linton (1886–1972), newspaper editor, was born on 27 May 1886 in Hull, Yorkshire, the youngest of the four children (three sons and one daughter) of William Andrews (1848–1908), author, editor, and librarian of the Royal Institution, Hull, and his wife, ...
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(Francis) David Langhorne Astor (1912–2001) by David Rubinger, 1964 [centre, with Observer staff] Getty Images
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Astor, (Francis) David Langhorne (1912–2001), newspaper editor and philanthropist, was born on 5 March 1912 at 4 St James's Square, London, the second of four sons and third of five children of Waldorf Astor, second Viscount Astor (1879–1952), and his wife, Nancy Witcher, ...
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Bacon, Richard Mackenzie (1776–1844), newspaper editor and music critic, was born in Norwich on 1 May 1776, the only son of Richard Bacon (1745–1812), proprietor from 1794 of the Norwich Mercury, one of the leading provincial organs of liberal opinion. He was educated at the ...
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Bailey, Thomas (1785–1856), newspaper editor and author, was born at Nottingham on 31 July 1785, the son of Philip Bailey and his wife, Elizabeth Whittle. His education was received partly in a day school in his native town, and partly in a boarding-school at ...
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James Ballantyne (1772–1833) by John Ballantyne National Gallery of Scotland
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Sharon Anne Ragaz
Ballantyne, James (1772–1833), printer and newspaper editor, was born at Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, on 15 January 1772, the eldest child of John Ballantyne (1743–1817), general merchant, and Jean (1745?–1818), daughter of James Barclay, rector of Dalkeith high school, and his wife, Elizabeth. His early education was at ...
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Gordon Phillips
Barnes, Thomas (1785–1841), newspaper editor and essayist, was born in Southwark, London, on 11 September 1785, the eldest son of John Barnes (b. 1753), a solicitor practising in Clifford's Inn, Bloomsbury, and Tenterden, Kent, and his wife, Mary, née Anderson. His mother died when he was young, and he was initially raised by his grandmother with his brother, ...
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Caroline Morrell
Barrett, Rachel (1874–1953), suffragette and newspaper editor, was born on 12 November 1874 at 23 Union Street, Carmarthen, the daughter of Welsh-speaking parents, Rees Barrett, land and road surveyor, and Anne Barrett, née Jones. Educated at a private school in Stroud, she later won a scholarship to ...
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H. C. G. Matthew
Bayley [formerly Naylor], Frederick William Naylor (1812–1852), newspaper editor and author, was born Frederick William Naylor on 7 November 1812, probably at Stepney, London, where he was baptized later that month, the son of George Naylor, a teacher of navigation, and his wife, ...
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Benisch, Abraham (1811–1878), Hebraist and newspaper editor, was born to Jewish parents at Drossau, a small town 8 miles south-west of Klattau in Bohemia. About 1836 he studied surgery at Prague University where, with other Jewish students, he formed an organization for re-establishing Jewish independence in ...
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Warren T. Francke
Bennett, James Gordon (1795–1872), newspaper editor and publisher, was born on 1 September 1795 in Old Town (later called New Mill), Keith, Banffshire. Catholic farmers in a protestant community, his parents' names are unknown, but Bennett claimed descent from ninth-century Saxon freebooters and ...
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Robert Harrison
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Black, John (1783–1855), journalist and newspaper editor, was born on 7 November 1783 in a poor cottage on a farm called Burnhouses, 4 miles north of Duns in Berwickshire. His father, Ebenezer Black, had been a pedlar in Perthshire, but in the decline of life he accepted employment at ...
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Ralph David Blumenfeld (1864–1948) by Howard Coster, 1929 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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A. J. A. Morris
Blumenfeld, Ralph David (1864–1948), newspaper editor, was born at Watertown, Wisconsin, USA, on 7 April 1864. He was the fourth son of the seven children of David Blumenfeld and his wife, Nancy, née Levensen. A former professor of literature and history at Nuremberg...
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Huw Richards
Bolam, Silvester (1905–1953), newspaper editor, was born on 23 October 1905 at 84 George Street, Willington Quay, Tynemouth, Northumberland, the son of Thomas Bolam, a foreman blacksmith, and his wife, Amelia English. He was educated at Tynemouth Municipal High School and Armstrong College, Newcastle...
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H. C. G. Matthew
Borthwick, Peter (1804–1852), newspaper editor, was born at Cornbank, in the parish of Borthwick, Midlothian, on 13 September 1804, the only son of Thomas Borthwick of Edinburgh. He graduated at the University of Edinburgh, and was the private pupil of James Walker, bishop of ...
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Hilary L. Rubinstein
Bresslau, Marcus Hyman (1807/8–1864), newspaper editor, was born in Hamburg, possibly with the Hebrew forenames Mordecai Chaim, to Jewish parents of whom nothing is known. He migrated to London in his youth. He had evidently received a traditional Jewish education, but at the same time had inculcated the ideas of the ...
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Philippa Kennedy
Brittenden, (Charles) Arthur (1924–2015), newspaper editor, was born on 23 October 1924 at 46 Stainbeck Avenue, Leeds, the son of Tom Edwin Brittenden (1895–1926), a woollen mill cashier, and his wife, (Lilian) Caroline Margaret Ely, née Scrivener...
