Henry William Massingham

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Henry William Massingham (1891)

Henry William Massingham (mostly HW Massingham ; born May 25, 1860 in Old Catton , Norfolk , England , † August 27, 1924 in Tintagel , Cornwall ) was a British journalist and editor .

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Henry William Massingham was the second of three sons of Joseph Massingham († 1866) and his wife Marianne geb. Riches. He attended Sun Lane School in New Catton and Grammar School in Norwich . In 1877 he became a reporter for the Eastern Daily Press and Norfolk News . In 1888 he moved to The Star , for which he was editor for a few months in 1890. In 1891 he became editor of Labor World and in 1892 went to the Daily Chronicle . There he was editor from 1894 to 1899. He then worked for The Manchester Guardian and The Daily News until 1907 . In 1907 he took over the editor of the weekly magazine The Nation . He ended this activity in 1923 because of political differences. He then worked as a columnist for the daily newspaper The Christian Science Monitor and for the weeklies The Spectator and New Statesman .

In 1887 Massingham married Emma Jane b. Snowdon († 1905), with whom he had six children. His son Harold John Massingham (1888–1952) was a writer and poet, Richard Massingham (1898–1953) a film producer, director and actor, Hugh Massingham (1905–1971) a writer and his daughter Dorothy Massingham (1889–1933) a playwright and actress. After the death of his wife, he married her sister Ellen Snowdon in 1907. The wedding took place on the island of Guernsey because a second marriage was not possible on the British mainland.

Henry William Massingham was buried in Old Brompton Cemetery , London .

The British historian Alfred F. Havighurst published a study on the life and career of HW Massingham in 1974. In it, he examines, among other things, the dispute with the Fabian Society , in which Massingham was an active member from 1891 to 1895, his attitude to Archibald Primrose and his connection to Ramsay MacDonald .

Fonts

  • The London Daily Press… With illustrations and portraits. Religious Tract Society, London 1892, OCLC 752726235 .
  • The life and political career of the Right Hon. WE Gladstone. Office of the Illustrated London News, London 1898, OCLC 81800241 .
  • The Gweedore hunt. A story of English justice in Ireland. Fisher Unwin, London 1889, OCLC 26751002 .
  • Labor and protection. A series of studies. Fisher Unwin, London 1903, OCLC 7949898 .
  • Introduction to: Winston Churchill : Liberalism and the Social Problem. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1909, OCLC 559190655 .
  • Why we came to help Belgium. In: The Nation. October 3, 1914. Harrison, London 1914, OCLC 251613074 .
    • English: How England came to help Belgium. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1914, DNB 361534035 .
  • Introduction to: Reuben Shapcott (Ed.), William Hale White (= Mark Rutherford): Autobiography. Fisher Unwin, London 1923, OCLC 500490808 . New edition: The autobiography of Mark Rutherford. Jonathan Cape, London 1928, OCLC 220895338 .

In 1919 a collection of correspondence from Massingham with the British polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard appeared on an article in The Nation about Ernest Shackleton , which is kept in the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge .

The Norfolk Record Office holds letters from HW Massingham dating from 1872 to 1908.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HW Massingham on nndb.com
  2. ^ Massingham, Henry William in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Extract)
  3. ^ Alfred F. Havighurst: Radical journalist: HW Massingham (1860-1924). Cambridge University Press, London 1974, ISBN 0-521-20355-4 , p. 142 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ^ Norman Mackenzie: The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Volume 1: Apprenticeships 1873-1892. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-08495-6 , p. 150 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ↑ Abstract on admin.cambridge.org
  6. ^ Henry William Massingham collection on archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk
  7. ↑ Papers of HW Massingham (1860-1924) at discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
personal data
SURNAME Massingham, Henry William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massingham, HW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Old Catton , Norfolk , England
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1924
Place of death Tintagel , Cornwall , England