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unusual facts about Lord Northcliffe



Hadrian the Seventh

In 1908 Rolfe resurrected the character of Hadrian for The Bull Against the Enemy of the Anglican Race, a violent attack on Lord Northcliffe and his newspaper, the Daily Mail, cast in the form of a Papal Bull issued by Hadrian VII.

Herald Express

Devon's premier publishing centres had always been at Plymouth - where Sir Leicester Harmsworth, brother of newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe, controlled the city's Evening Herald - and at Exeter - where Sir James Owen had the county's other evening title, the Express and Echo.

Horace Everett Hooper

After the purchase of The Times by Lord Northcliffe, Hooper left the company in 1908.

Kadaververwertungsanstalt

The first accounts of the Kadaververwertungsanstalt appeared in the 17 April 1917 editions of The Times and The Daily Mail (both owned by Lord Northcliffe at the time), The Times running it under the title Germans and their Dead.

News from the Front

Sir Geoffrey, who is the lawyer for newspaper baron Lord Northcliffe, wants to use James' comments to bring down Asquith's Liberal Government, and days later a report of James' account is published in The Daily Mail, which is owned by Lord Northcliffe.

Wellington House

Lord Northcliffe, owner of The Times and the Daily Mail, was put in charge of propaganda aimed at enemy nations, while Robert Donald, editor of the Daily Chronicle, was made director of propaganda aimed at neutral nations.


see also

Walter Montgomery Jackson

The Children's Encyclopedia was a 10-volume compilation of a popular children's journal of the same name founded and edited by Arthur Mee and published by Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe.