"Viscount Rothermere Viscount Rothermere, of Hempstead in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. He had already been created a baronet, of Horsey in the County of Norfolk, on 14 July 1910, and Baron Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, in 1914. Every holder of the titles has served as chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1998. The"
"modelled after another popular paper called ""Tit-Bits"". Harold gave up his clerk’s job to handle the business-side of the papers while Alfred effectively controlled the papers with great success. Later on Alfred became Lord Northcliffe and Harold became Lord Rothermere. The brothers started several papers of which the Daily Mail became the most influential. Under the editor Kennedy Jones the ""Evening News"" was one of the papers that transformed the English press with their so-called ""new journalism"". This meant that the papers were aimed at a wider general public than the traditional ones, such as ""The Times"". The ""Evening News"""
"parent Daily Mail and General Trust just before his 31st birthday. One change he has instituted since becoming chairman is requiring directors to retire at age 75. In 2013, ""Private Eye"" reported that Viscount Rothermere falsely claims non-dom status, in order to avoid paying tax on his stately home, Ferne House. This move saves him several millions of pounds in tax annually. He was a supporter of the former Conservative Party leader David Cameron. He ranked fourth in the Publishing, Advertising, and PR section of the Sunday Times Rich List 2013 with an estimated wealth of £720 million. In April"
"the ""Daily Sketch"", which had been published as a tabloid by the same company. The publisher of the ""Mail"", the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Circulation figures according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations in November 2017 show gross daily sales of 1,383,932 for the ""Daily Mail"". According to a December 2004 survey, 53% of ""Daily Mail"" readers voted for the Conservative Party, compared to 21% for Labour and 17% for the Liberal Democrats. The main concern of Viscount Rothermere, the current chairman and main shareholder, is that the circulation be maintained."
"support sporting boycotts of white-minority-ruled South Africa—strongly opposed apartheid). In 1982 a Sunday title, the Mail on Sunday, was launched (the Scottish ""Sunday Mail"", now owned by the Mirror Group, was founded in 1919 by the first Lord Rothermere, but later sold.) Sir David English became editor-in-chief and chairman of Associated Newspapers in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch had attempted to hire ""Evening Standard"" editor Paul Dacre as editor of ""The Times"". The ""Evening Standard"" was then part of the Associated Newspapers group, and Dacre was appointed to succeed English at the ""Daily Mail"" as a means of dealing with Murdoch's"
"of Queen Elizabeth I provided for the then new Ludgate in 1586 by William Kerwin; it was moved to here following the gate's demolition in 1776. Adjacent to this is a bust of Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper proprietor, co-founder of the ""Daily Mail"" and the ""Daily Mirror"". At No. 72 is a bust of the Irish journalist and MP TP O'Connor, constructed in 1934 by F. W. Doyle-Jones. On the southern side of the street nearby memorials and monuments include the Temple Bar marker where the Temple Bar (a gateway) used to stand until it was removed in 1878. The"
"She learnt to value conversation and friendship from her grandmother, Mary Constance Charteris, Countess of Wemyss, who had her own hedonistic past, having been one of The Souls. She was educated by governesses after an unsuccessful term at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She had a good understanding of literature but her future was to be a debutante and she quickly married Lord O'Neill who was both an aristocrat and a financier in 1932. She had two children before beginning an affair with the influential Esmond Cecil Harmsworth in 1936. Harmsworth was the heir to Lord Rothermere, who owned the ""Daily Mail""."
"aimed at the largest possible audience, including the working class, had proven a success and made its profits through advertising. Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922), ""More than anyone... shaped the modern press. Developments he introduced or harnessed remain central: broad contents, exploitation of advertising revenue to subsidize prices, aggressive marketing, subordinate regional markets, independence from party control. His ""Daily Mail"" held the world record for daily circulation until his death. Prime Minister Lord Salisbury quipped it was ""written by office boys for office boys"". The first newspaper of India was published on January 29, 1780 known as ‘Hicky’s Gazette’"
"( http://veterans-aid.net ), founded in 1932 as a direct response to the needs of the veterans of the First World War it continues its vital work today, looking after British and Commonwealth ex-servicemen and women in crisis. Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere (born 1949) is a Korean citizen born in Japan who has also lived in New York City, Paris and London. She is the widow of ""Daily Mail"" proprietor the 3rd Viscount Rothermere, whom she married in 1993, having been his mistress for many years. In 2009 Lady Rothermere set up the"
"by Lord Northcliffe. It became Britain's second biggest-selling daily newspaper, outsold only by ""The Sun"". The ""Daily Mail"" was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly literate ""lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks"", and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day. It was, from the outset, a newspaper for women, being the first to provide features especially for them, and is the only British newspaper whose readership is more than 50 % female, at 53 %. With literacy rising sharply, the"
"Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere Maiko Jeong Shun Lee, Viscountess Rothermere (born 1949) is a Korean citizen born in Japan who has also lived in New York City, Paris and London. She is the widow of ""Daily Mail"" proprietor the 3rd Viscount Rothermere, whom she married in 1993, having been his mistress for many years. In 2009 Lady Rothermere set up the Lady R Foundation whose stated aim is ""to bring comfort and relief to the forgotten, the overlooked and the stigmatized in today’s society; to give a voice to those who have no voice, through lack of education,"
"early 1930s. By the mid-1930s, the ""Mirror"" was struggling – it and the ""Mail"" were the main casualties of the early 1930s circulation war that saw the ""Daily Herald"" and the ""Daily Express"" establish circulations of more than two million, and Rothermere decided to sell his shares in it. In 1935 Rothermere sold the paper to H. G. Bartholomew and Hugh Cudlipp. With Cecil King (Rothermere's nephew) in charge of the paper's finances and Guy Bartholomew as editor, during the late 1930s the ""Mirror"" was transformed from a conservative, middle class newspaper into a left-wing paper for the working class."
"at 11:30 on that date. His last victory that day was scored in another machine. Unlike the German and French governments, the War Office had been reluctant to identify individual soldiers and aces for propaganda and public consumption, the most notable exception being Albert Ball. However, from December 1917 Viscount Northcliffe, the proprietor of the ""Daily Mail"" newspaper was appointed to the Ministry of Information. Northcliffe had a solid background in aviation. He campaigned for ""air mindedness"", when aircraft began to make technological headway and the nation, now facing the existence and efficiency of airships which could circumvent the North"
"2015, the ""Sunday Times"" estimated his net worth at £1 billion He has non-domicile tax status and owns his media businesses through a complex structure of offshore holdings and trusts. The BBC's ""Newsnight"" programme at the end of January 2017 reported that former prime minister David Cameron had approached Lord Rothermere to sack Eurosceptic Paul Dacre, the editor of the ""Daily Mail"" in the run up to the 2016 EU membership referendum. A representative of Lord Rothermere refused to confirm or deny the story, although a spokesman for Cameron confirmed that he had tried to persuade both Dacre and Rothermere"
"Lindsay Bashford Major Radclyffe James Lindsay Bashford OBE (1881-1921) was at various times in his relatively brief life, an academic, journalist, novelist and soldier. He was employed by both Joseph Pulitzer and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and is best remembered as the Literary Editor of the Daily Mail from 1906-14. The son of Frederick Bashford, Lindsay Bashford was born on 6 February 1881 in London. His brother Henry Howarth Bashford was a physician and novelist. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, at schools in Germany, at the University of Edinburgh and the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in"
"It became the terminus of the Bridgetown-Jarnadup railway, and was gazetted in May 1924. Mitchell named it after Lord Northcliffe, owner of ""The Times"" and the ""Daily Mail"" in London, and Director of Propaganda in the British government during World War I, who had died in 1922. Contemporary community organisations in Northcliffe include Northcliffe Pioneer Museum, Northcliffe Streetscape, Northcliffe Community Resource Centre, Northcliffe Family and Community Centre, Northcliffe Arts Association, Southern Forest Arts, Northcliffe Workers Club, Northcliffe Recreation Association, Northcliffe Visitor Centre and Northcliffe Town Hall. Northcliffe is close to Mt Chudalup (a granite monolith), Northcliffe Forest Park and the"
"assets of Northern & Shell, including the ""Daily Express"", ""Sunday Express,"" ""Daily Star and OK!"". Following completion, Trinity Mirror announced a plan to rebrand as Reach, subject to investor approval which was achieved at its Annual General Meeting in May 2018. The ""Daily Mirror"" was launched by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe ""for gentlewomen"" in 1903. The company was first listed on the London Stock Exchange on 2 December 1953. In 1958 the International Publishing Company (IPC) acquired Mirror Group Newspapers, but IPC was in turn taken over by publishing giant Reed International in 1970. In 1984 Pergamon Holdings, a"
"becoming its editor-in-chief. In 1937 they purchased its rival, ""The Morning Post"". Berry bought out his partners in 1937 and amalgamated ""The Morning Post"" with ""The Daily Telegraph"", with himself as chairman and editor-in-chief. His sons Seymour, the 2nd Viscount, and subsequently Michael, continued to run the newspaper until 1986. He provided financial assistance to Sir Winston Churchill after the Second World War. He and ten other wealthy well-wishers each donated £5,000 to the Churchills, allowing them to keep their home, Chartwell, on the condition that it would be presented to the nation upon their deaths. Berry was created a"
"Mail and General Trust, Yattendon Group, Trinity Mirror and others, taking over Northcliffe Media. The Croydon Advertiser The Croydon Advertiser (with locally branded editions) is a paid-for weekly newspaper with five editions covering the London Boroughs of Croydon, Sutton and two neighbouring towns and with a free up-to-the-minute maintained web presence. The audited circulation in 2016 was 6964 The Croydon newspaper was founded by Jesse Ward in 1869, and it and the other ""Advertiser"" publications later became part of the Northcliffe Media Group, which is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust during its existence the largest newspaper publisher"
"Theatre"", Archer Street, London. According to Brian Birch, Melville used the pseudonym ""Miss Fitte"" as a pun on ""misfit"" when writing about stamp errors. Outside philately, Melville was editor of the ""Heartsease Library"", ""Cosy Corner"", ""Good Words"" and ""Sunday Magazine"". Melville's skill as a journalist has been partly attributed to the training he received from the press baron Sir Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe, founder of ""The Daily Mirror"" and ""The Mail"". Melville was active in many branches of philately. He was a member of the Fiscal Philatelic Society from 1911 and he served on many philatelic exhibition juries. He"
"Vere Harmsworth Library The Vere Harmsworth Library is a dependent library of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The library is the University's principal research library for the study of United States history and politics and is housed on the upper floors of the Rothermere American Institute, located on South Parks Road in central Oxford, England. It is named in honour of Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere, chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust, who was prominent in raising funds and support for the construction of the building. The Vere Harmsworth Library has an"
"widespread hacking at the ""News of the World"", was retracted when it became clear that they were true. Wright and Dacre both also failed to mention the hacking of the four ""Mail on Sunday"" staff in the evidence they gave to the Leveson inquiry in 2012. The Mail on Sunday The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. It was launched in 1982 by Lord Rothermere. Its sister paper, the ""Daily Mail"", was first published in 1896. In July 2011, after the closure of the ""News of the World"", ""The Mail on Sunday"" sold"
"christened the ""Daily Mail Sandringham Hat"". The paper subsequently promoted the wearing of it but without much success. In 1922, when Lord Northcliffe died, Lord Rothermere took full control of the paper. In 1919, Alcock and Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic, winning a prize of £10,000 from the ""Daily Mail"". In 1930 the ""Mail"" made a great story of another aviation stunt, awarding another prize of £10,000 to Amy Johnson for making the first solo flight from England to Australia. The ""Daily Mail"" had begun the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1908. At first, Northcliffe had disdained this"
"the divorce, Princess Stephanie's surname was zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, as was Austrian custom. Over the years, she always represented herself as a Hohenlohe princess. She lived in Paris until the government forced her out on suspicion of being a spy. She moved to London in 1932, settling at the exclusive Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair, London. Meanwhile, she had developed friendships and sometimes intimate relationships with powerful and influential men, including Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, an Anglo-Irish tycoon who owned the influential ""Daily Mail"" and ""Daily Mirror"" in London, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Britain in the"
"The Mail on Sunday The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. It was launched in 1982 by Lord Rothermere. Its sister paper, the ""Daily Mail"", was first published in 1896. In July 2011, after the closure of the ""News of the World"", ""The Mail on Sunday"" sold some 2.5 million copies a week—making it Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper—but by September that had fallen back to just under 2 million. Like the ""Daily Mail"" it is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), but the editorial staffs of the two papers are"
"McGuinness, father of journalist P. P. McGuinness, also played a role in launching the newspaper. Charles Buttrose, father of Ita Buttrose (launch editor of ""Cleo"" magazine and subsequently editor of ""The Australian Women's Weekly""), was a journalist on, and then the editor of, ""The Daily Mirror"". The Daily Mirror (Sydney) The Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper established by Ezra Norton in Sydney, Australia in 1941, gaining a licence from the Minister for Trade and Customs, Eric Harrison, despite wartime paper rationing. In October 1958, Norton and his partners sold his newspapers to the Fairfax Group, which immediately sold it"
"of Mill Vale, Bromley. Fordham was a barrister, called by the Inner Temple in 1929. He was educated at St. George's School, Harpenden, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He had been the Liberal candidate here at the 1929 General Election. The Labour candidate was Albert Edwin Ashworth, who had also stood in 1929 and had come last of three. The fourth candidate, V.C. Redwood, stood for the United Empire Party, which sought to make the British Empire a free trade bloc. This party was the creature of Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, respectively proprietors of the Daily Express and Daily Mail."
"the division or the families of those killed while serving in it. By far the largest contributor was Lord Rothermere—owner of the ""Daily Mail"" newspaper—whose second son, Vere Harmsworth, was killed in action with the division at the Battle of the Ancre in 1916. HM Treasury authorised the Office of Works to see to the ongoing maintenance of the fountain, to which the RND Association contributed through a trust fund established with surplus donations, chaired by Arthur Asquith and now in the hands of the Commandant General Royal Marines. The fund also covered the construction of a memorial to the"
"have contacted Dacre's boss, the proprietor Lord Rothermere, who is known to have favoured the 'remain' option in the referendum, to persuade him to sack Dacre. Dacre was reputedly ""incandescent"" in March 2016 when told by a Westminster source of Cameron's approach to Rothermere, and this strengthened his Brexit convictions. A spokesman for Cameron said the then prime minister ""did not believe he could determine who edits the ""Daily Mail"""", but had sought to persuade Dacre and Rothermere over the EU membership vote. A spokesman for Rothermere refused to confirm or deny the story. According to Andy Beckett in a"
"service and died on 20 August 1921. He left a widow, Catherine Lovibond, who was later to marry Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley the aristocratic convert to Islam also known as Saif Rahmatullah al-Farooq. Lindsay Bashford Major Radclyffe James Lindsay Bashford OBE (1881-1921) was at various times in his relatively brief life, an academic, journalist, novelist and soldier. He was employed by both Joseph Pulitzer and Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and is best remembered as the Literary Editor of the Daily Mail from 1906-14. The son of Frederick Bashford, Lindsay Bashford was born on 6 February 1881 in London."
"probably meant to represent King Lud and his two sons. Adjacent to Queen Elizabeth is a bust of Lord Northcliffe, the newspaper proprietor, co-founder of the ""Daily Mail"" and the ""Daily Mirror"". Next to Lord Northcliffe is a memorial tablet to James Louis Garvin, another pioneering British journalist. St Dunstan-in-the-West is in England to share its building with the Romanian Orthodox community. The chapel to the left of the main altar is closed off by an iconostasis, formerly from Antim Monastery in Bucharest, dedicated in 1966. The church has associations with many notable people: The church has often been associated"
"interspersed with publicity for the newspaper and its insurance fund. The ""Mail"" was also a frequent sponsor on continental commercial radio stations targeted towards Britain throughout the 1920s and 1930s and periodically voiced support for the legalisation of private radio, something that would not happen until 1973. From 1923 Lord Rothermere and the ""Daily Mail"" formed an alliance with the other great press baron, Lord Beaverbrook. Their opponent was the Conservative Party politician and leader Stanley Baldwin. By 1929 George Ward Price was writing in the ""Mail"" that Baldwin should be deposed and Beaverbrook elected as leader. In early 1930"
"capacity, he nurtured the local literary scene by publishing ""The Rhode Island Book"" (1841), which was edited by Anne Charlotte Lynch. In 1843 associated himself with N. P. Willis and George P. Morris in the publication of the ""New York Mirror"". The three afterward established the ""Daily Mirror"", of which Fuller became sole proprietor, and edited it for 14 years. For the ""Mirror"", Fuller wrote for a series of clever society letters from Newport, under the pen name of “Belle Brittan.” An attack on Edgar Allan Poe which he republished involved him in a libel action against him by that"