[Viscount] Alfred Lord Northcliffe Harmsworth

Life
1865-1922; journalist and newspaper baron; b. Chapelizod, ed Henley House; founded Answers to Correspondents, later Answer, catering to new popular audience, 1888, with assistance from his brother, Lord Rothermere; bought the London Evening News, 1894; launched Daily Mail, 1896, and then Sunday Dispatch and Daily Mirror. Bought The Times in 1908. He was a bye-word for the autocratic newspaper man, and the first newspaper emperor, operating through the Amalgamated Press.ODNB DIB OCEL OCIL

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Notes
Portrait, Harmsworth by PA de Laszlo (see Anne Crookshank, Irish Portraits, Ulster Museum Exhib. Catalogue. 1965).

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