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4 unusual facts about Wellington House


Wellington House

A Dutch illustrator, Louis Raemaekers, provided highly emotional drawings which appeared in the pamphlet.

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.

After Bone returned to England he was replaced by his brother-in-law, Francis Dodd, who had been working for the Manchester Guardian.

Several of the writers agreed to write pamphlets and books that would promote the government's point of view; these were printed and published by such well-known publishers as Hodder & Stoughton, Methuen, Oxford University Press, John Murray, Macmillan and Thomas Nelson.



see also

Alfoxton House

During World War II it housed evacuees from Wellington House School Westgate on Sea Kent.

Edwin Dunkin

He and his younger brother, Richard (1823 – 1895) were educated at Wellington House Academy, Hampstead, and at M. Liborel's school in Guînes in the Pas de Calais.