Hugh Chisholm

Hugh Chisholm, 1903

Hugh Chisholm (born February 22, 1866 in London, † September 29, 1924 ) was a British journalist and the editor of the 10th, 11th and 12th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica .

Life

He is the son of Henry William Chisholm (1809-1901), Warden of the Standards (i.e. director of the UK Weights and Measures Office on the Board of Trade ). Hugh Chisholm received his education at the Felsted School and Christ Church College , Oxford , where he graduated in 1888 with a top grade in Literae Humaniores . He trained as a barrister and was inducted into the Honorable Society of Middle Temple , one of the four English bar associations , in 1892 .

He worked for St James's Gazette as assistant editor from 1892 and was appointed editor in 1897. During these years he wrote numerous articles on political, financial and literary topics in weekly and monthly magazines and became known as a literary critic and conservative publicist. In 1899 he moved to Standard as chief editor ( chief leader-writer ) and a year later to the Times as co-editor alongside Donald Mackenzie Wallace and Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930) from Yale University of the 11-volume 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica . In 1903 he became editor-in-chief of the 11th edition, which was completed under his direction in 1910 and published in 1911 as a whole and in 29 volumes by Cambridge University Press . He then published the Britannica Year Book (1913).

Chisholm had been proposed as the new editor of the Times as an alternative to Dawson, and in 1913, on his return from America, where he oversaw the printing of the Britannica yearbook, he became the daily editor, and in August 1913 he became the company's general manager. He was the financial editor during the First World War and resigned in 1920 when he took over the editing of the three volumes that made up the 12th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica , published in 1922.

Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young is his sister.

literature

• The Times. September 30, 1924, p. 14, issue 43770, obituary to Chisholm.
• Janet E. Courtney: An Oxford Portrait Gallery. London 1931, pp. 167-157. Janet Courtney, née Hogarth, worked for the Times Bookcub and was later responsible for indexing the 11th and 12th editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
• History of "The Times". Volume 3, 1884-1912, (1939) pp. 121, 519, 755, 829; Volume 4, 1912-1920, (1947) pp. 143, 137, 138, 208, 472
• Chisholm, Hugh . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 30 : Abbe - English history . London 1922, p. 669 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Wikisource: Author: Hugh Chisholm  - Sources and full texts (English)

• Nigel Hamilton . In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004, accessed November 14, 2019.