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Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

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Northcliffe's drive for success and respectability found its main outlet in the commercial world of journalism, not the political world the parties and parliaments. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment, underlying the relentless acquisition of newspapers and perfection of their "copy," was the simple
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Boyish in his power of concentration upon the matter of the moment, boyish in his readiness to turn swiftly to a different matter and concentrate on that.... Boyish the limited range of his intellect, which seldom concerns itself with anything but the immediate, the obvious, the popular. Boyish his
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Northcliffe's personality shaped his career. He was monolingual and not well-educated and knew little history or science. He had a lust for power and for money, while leaving the accounting paperwork to his brother Harold. He imagined himself Napoleon reborn and resembled the emperor physically and
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Lord Northcliffe had four acknowledged children by two different women. The first, Alfred Benjamin Smith, was born when Harmsworth was seventeen years old; the mother was a sixteen-year-old maidservant in his parents' home. Smith died during 1930, allegedly in a mental home. By 1900, Harmsworth had
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the most successful newspaper hitherto seen in the history of journalism. But by confusing gewgaws with pearls, by selecting the paltry at the expense of the significant, by confirming atavistic prejudices, by oversimplifying the complex, by dramatizing the humdrum, by presenting stories as
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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
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and other newspapers meant that his editorials influenced both "the classes and the masses". That meant that in an era before radio, television or internet, Northcliffe dominated the British press "as it never has been before or since by one man".
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irresponsibility, his disinclination to take himself or his publications seriously; his conviction that whatever benefits them is justifiable, and that it is not his business to consider the effect of their contents on the public mind.
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Harmsworth was an early developer of popular journalism. He bought several failing newspapers and made them into an enormously profitable news group, primarily by appealing to the general public. He began with
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entertainment and by blurring the difference between news and views, Northcliffe titillated, if he did not debouch, the public mind; he polluted, if he did not poison, the wells of knowledge.
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features a satirical version of Northcliffe, Sir Felix Janion, who uses sexual blackmail to prevent the passing of a bill which would provide a minimum wage for his employees.
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acquired a new mistress, an Irishwoman named Kathleen Wrohan, about whom little is known but her name; they had two further sons and a daughter, and she died in 1923.
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Such was Northcliffe's influence on anti-German propaganda during the World War I that a German warship was sent to shell his house, Elmwood, in
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Thompson, J. Lee. "‘To Tell the People of America the Truth’: Lord Northcliffe in the US, Unofficial British Propaganda, June–November 1917."
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By 1914 Northcliffe controlled 40% of the morning newspaper circulation, 45% of the evening and 15% of the Sunday circulation in Britain.
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During 1899 Harmsworth was responsible for the unprecedented success of a charitable appeal for the dependents of soldiers fighting in the
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to declare, "Next to the Kaiser, Lord Northcliffe has done more than any living man to bring about the war". His newspapers, especially
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51.1 (1988): 19–41. Covers his emphasis on tariff reform, the importance of Canada to the British Empire, and British naval supremacy.
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to British settlers prepared to emigrate and develop the land. A town founded specifically to assist the new settlements was named
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Northcliffe was the subject of a number of fictionalized portrayals. One of the earliest was the character of Mr. Whelpdale in
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Northcliffe lived for a time at 31 Pandora Road, West Hampstead; this site is now marked with an English Heritage blue plaque.
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in 1921, and his mission to the United States, from June through to October 1917, has been judged successful by historians.
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in London, which was a success, having the world record for daily circulation until Harmsworth's death; taglines of the
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was at school with him at the time and encouraged Harmsworth to start the school magazine. In 1880 he first visited the
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Brice, Arthur Montefiore, and H. Fisher. "The Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition, Notes of the Last Year's Work."
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Northcliffe's enemies accused him of power without responsibility, but his papers were a factor in settling the
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from 1878. A master at Henley House who was to prove important to his future was J. V. Milne, the father of
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for women. From these periodicals, he developed the largest periodical publishing company in the world,
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Eminent Edwardians: Four Figures Who Defined Their Age - Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell
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Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell
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in terms of his enormous energy and ambition. Above all, he had a boyish enthusiasm for everything.
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included "the busy man's daily journal" and "the penny newspaper for one halfpenny". Prime Minister
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24.3 (1981): 651–672. Says Lloyd George had real power; that of Northcliffe was an illusion.
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Thompson, J. Lee. "Fleet Street Colossus: The Rise and Fall of Northcliffe, 1896-1922."
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Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
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P. P. Catterall and Colin Seymour-Ure, "Northcliffe, Viscount". in John Ramsden, ed.
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Throughout his newspaper career Northcliffe promoted the ideas which resulted in the
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Startt, James D. "Northcliffe the Imperialist: The Lesser-Known Years, 1902–1914."
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Chalaby, Jean K. "‘Smiling Pictures Make People Smile’: Northcliffe's journalism."
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The rise and fall of the political press in Britain Vol. 2: the Twentieth Century
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centers on Sir Charles Worgan, a profit-hungry media baron based on Northcliffe.
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in the Arctic with the intention of making attempts to travel to the North Pole.
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The Unknown Prime Minister: The Life & Times of Andrew Bonar Law 1858–1918
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with such zeal that it helped to end the Liberal government of Prime Minister
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34.2 (1957): 208–216. He was intensely anti-German before and during the war.
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in which the newspaper displayed "a virulent anti-German sentiment" caused
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Ian Christopher Fletcher , "Northcliffe, Lord" in Fred M. Leventhal, ed.,
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Lord Northcliffe & the 1908 Olympics - UK Parliament Living Heritage
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Beginning as a freelance journalist, he initiated his first newspaper,
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The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron
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in his honour. (Northcliffe had provided a ship for the expedition).
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Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922)
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McEwen, John M. "Northcliffe and Lloyd George at War, 1914-1918."
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True Brit: A Celebration of the Great Comic Book Artists of the UK
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during 1905 and 1908, respectively. During 1908, he also acquired
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The Great Outsiders: Northcliffe, Rothermere and the Daily Mail
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Lord Northcliffe's health declined during 1921 due mainly to a
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39.1 (1962): 46–52. From journalism to political power in 1903
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during 1894, and then merged two Edinburgh papers to form the
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The Magic of a Name The Rolls-Royce Story: The First 40 Years
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incorporation of millions of readers into his press empire.
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Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
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Bingham, Adrian. "The Daily Mail and the First World War"
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics
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said he was "the greatest figure who ever strode down
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Gollin, A. M. "Lord Northcliffe's Change of Course."
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1898–1915), utilizing one of Britain's best editors,
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White, William. "Lord Northcliffe and World War I."
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British newspaper and publishing magnate (1865–1922)
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Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
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Fleet Street
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Amalgamated Press
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The Children's Encyclopædia
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