Archer, William (1856–1924), theatre critic and journalist, was born at 6 North Methven Street, Perth, Scotland, on 23 September 1856, the eldest son of the nine children of Thomas Archer (1823–1905) of Glasgow and his wife, Grace Lindsay Morison (1832–1911), the daughter of ...
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Archer, William (1856–1924), theatre critic and journalist
J. P. Wearing
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Ballance, John (1839–1893), newspaper proprietor and premier of New Zealand
Tim McIvor
Ballance, John (1839–1893), newspaper proprietor and premier of New Zealand, was born on 27 March 1839 at Ballypitmave, near Glenavy, co. Antrim, Ireland, the eldest of the eleven children of Samuel Ballance (1800–1879), a tenant farmer, and his wife, Mary McNiece, the daughter of ...
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Blair, Eric Arthur [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950), political writer and essayist
Bernard Crick
Blair, Eric Arthur [pseud. George Orwell] (1903–1950), political writer and essayist, was born in Motihari, Bengal, India, on 25 June 1903, the only son of Richard Walmesley Blair (1857–1938), a sub-deputy opium agent in the government of Bengal, and his wife, Ida Mabel Limouzin (1875–1943)...
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Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851–1943), journalist and author
R. C. K. Ensor
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Blatchford, Robert Peel Glanville (1851–1943), journalist and author, was born at Maidstone on 17 March 1851 and named after the Conservative prime minister who had died the year before. His English father, John Glanville Blatchford, and his half-Italian mother, Georgiana Louisa Corri, granddaughter of ...
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Bottomley, Horatio William (1860–1933), journalist and swindler
A. J. A. Morris
Bottomley, Horatio William (1860–1933), journalist and swindler, was the only son of William King Bottomley (1827–1863), a tailor's cutter, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Holyoake. He was born on 23 March 1860 at 16 St Peter's Street, Bethnal Green, London. Orphaned by the age of four, ...
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Boxer, (Charles) Mark Edward [pseud. Marc] (1931–1988), cartoonist and magazine editor
Mark Amory
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Boxer, (Charles) Mark Edward [pseud. Marc] (1931–1988), cartoonist and magazine editor, was born on 19 May 1931 in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, the only son and younger child of Lieutenant-Colonel (Harold) Stephen Boxer, garage owner and car salesman, and his wife, Isobel Victoria Hughlings Jackson...
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Cudlipp, Hubert Kinsman [Hugh], Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998), journalist and publishing executive
Anthony Howard
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Cudlipp, Hubert Kinsman [Hugh], Baron Cudlipp (1913–1998), journalist and publishing executive, was born at 118 Lisvane Street, Cardiff, on 28 August 1913, the youngest son in the family of three sons and one daughter of William Christopher Cudlipp, commercial traveller for a provision merchant, and his wife, ...
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Harney, (George) Julian (1817–1897), Chartist and journalist
David Goodway
Harney, (George) Julian (1817–1897), Chartist and journalist, was born on 17 February 1817 at Deptford, Kent, the son of George Harney, sailor, and his wife. Brought up in poverty, he was educated at dame-schools and by his own reading. In 1828 he entered the ...
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Hetherington, Henry (1792–1849), publisher and journalist
Joel H. Wiener
Hetherington, Henry (1792–1849), publisher and journalist, was born in Compton Street, Soho, London, the eldest of the three children of John Hetherington, a tailor. He may have been the Henry John William Hetherington baptized at St Anne's, Soho, on 1 September 1792, in which case his mother was probably ...
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Hirst, Francis Wrigley (1873–1953), journalist and writer
A. C. Howe
Hirst, Francis Wrigley (1873–1953), journalist and writer, was born on 10 June 1873 at Dalton Lodge, near Huddersfield, the third of the five children of Alfred Hirst (d. 1913), woolstapler, and his wife, Mary Wrigley (d. 1932) of Huddersfield. Brought up within a strong tradition of nonconformity and Liberalism, he was educated at ...
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Hitchens, Christopher Eric (1949–2011), journalist and author
Peter Wilby
Hitchens, Christopher Eric (1949–2011), journalist and author, was born on 13 April 1949 at 3 Nettlecombe Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, the elder son of Eric Ernest Hitchens (1909–1987), a Royal Navy commander, and his wife, Yvonne Jeanne (or Jean), née Hickman (d. 1973)...
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Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny (1864–1929), social philosopher and journalist
Michael Freeden
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny (1864–1929), social philosopher and journalist, was born on 8 September 1864 at St Ive, near Liskeard, Cornwall, the youngest of the seven children of the Revd Reginald Hobhouse (1818–1895), rector of St Ive for fifty years and archdeacon of Bodmin...
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Howard, Anthony Michell (1934–2010), journalist and broadcaster
Peter Wilby
Howard, Anthony Michell (1934–2010), journalist and broadcaster, was born on 12 February 1934 at 38 Cheniston Gardens, Kensington, London, the son of Canon (William) Guy Howard (1902–1981), Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Janet Rymer, née Hogg (1904–1983). He attended Purton Stoke preparatory school...
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Huxley [née Grant], Elspeth Josceline (1907–1997), author and journalist
Mary Bull
Huxley [née Grant], Elspeth Josceline (1907–1997), author and journalist, was born Elspeth Josceline Grant in Sussex Square, Bayswater, London, on 23 July 1907, the only child of Major Josceline Charles Henry (Jos) Grant (1873–1947), soldier and farmer, and his wife, the Hon. Eleanor Lilian (Nellie) Grosvenor (1885–1977)...
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Jenkins, Peter George James (1934–1992), journalist and author
John Rosselli
Jenkins, Peter George James (1934–1992), journalist and author, was born on 11 May 1934 at 5 Penn Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, the elder child and only son of Kenneth Edmund Jenkins (1906–1993), a pharmaceutical chemist, and his wife, Joan Evelyn Croger (1907–1981), a teacher. From 1938 he grew up at ...
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Karaka, Dosabhoy Framji [Dosoo] (1911–1974), journalist and writer
Rozina Visram
Karaka, Dosabhoy Framji [Dosoo] (1911–1974), journalist and writer, was born on 14 April 1911 in Bombay, British India, into a middle-class Parsi family, the eldest of three children of Framji Jehangir Karaka, imperial customs official, and his wife, Homai (d...
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Kington, Miles Beresford (1941–2008), humorist, jazz critic, and broadcaster
Gill Coleridge
Kington, Miles Beresford (1941–2008), humorist, jazz critic, and broadcaster, was born on 13 May 1941 at Down County Infirmary, Downpatrick, co. Down, the elder son of William Beresford Nairn Kington (1909–1982), a brewer then serving as a captain with the 4th Royal Welch Fusiliers...
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Labouchere, Henry Du Pré (1831–1912), journalist and politician
Herbert Sidebotham
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Labouchere, Henry Du Pré (1831–1912), journalist and politician, was born in London, on 9 November 1831. He came of a Huguenot family established in Holland since the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His grandfather, Pierre César Labouchère, was head of the great financial house of ...
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Martineau, Harriet (1802–1876), writer and journalist
R. K. Webb
Martineau, Harriet (1802–1876), writer and journalist, was born in Norwich on 12 June 1802, the sixth of eight children of Thomas Martineau (1764–1826), a cloth manufacturer descended from an old Huguenot family, and his wife, Elizabeth (1770/71–1848), the eldest daughter of Robert Rankin...
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Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
H. N. Brailsford
revised by Sinéad Agnew
Nevinson, Henry Woodd (1856–1941), social activist and journalist, was born at 5 South Fields Place, Leicester, on 11 October 1856, the second son of George Nevinson, a solicitor, and his wife, Maria Jane, née Woodd, who raised him in a strictly evangelical atmosphere. In 1872 he won a scholarship at ...
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