The Morning Post

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The Morning Post was a highly conservative English newspaper that was published once a day in London . The Morning Post was the exclusive organ of the British court and the aristocratic world. It was published between 1772 and 1937.

The Morning Post was founded by John Bell on November 2, 1772 with an initial circulation of 350 copies, making it the oldest political daily in London. By 1900 it had a daily circulation of 75,000 copies.

Originally the newspaper was a mouthpiece of the Whigs , but after it was taken over by Daniel Stuart (1766-1846) in 1795 , it tended towards the moderate Tory direction. A number of prominent authors published articles in the Morning Post : Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Charles Lamb , James Mackintosh, and William Wordsworth . Under Stuart, the circulation grew to 4,000 copies.

Later the paper was of a papermakers from Lancashire adopted called "Crompton". In 1848 he hired the former Scottish Conservative MP Peter Borthwick as editor, who worked for Evesham between 1835 and 1847. After Borthwick's death, his son Algernon took over the business. During the 1850s, the Morning Post was very closely associated with the Palmerston Ministry .

With the help of Andrew Montagu , Borthwick bought the Morning Post in 1876. His son Oliver Borthwick became executive director and editor, but he died at a young age, and after his father's death in 1908, his daughter Lilias Borthwick (1871-1965), wife of Seymour Henry, took over (1864–1943), the shops. The newspaper was known for its affection for the rich and powerful, its interest in foreign policy and artistic and literary events. The regular publication of comments on plays, concerts and operas began. The Morning Post is said to have been the first daily newspaper in London to do so.

The Morning Post drew the ire of anti-colonialists when it organized a collection in 1919 for Reginald Dyer , the Butcher of Amritsar , raising £ 18,000.

In July 1920 the Morning Post published the counterfeit anti-Semitic pamphlet " Protocols of the Elders of Zion ".

In 1911, Howell Arthur Gwynne (1865-1950) took over the publication of the newspaper . Lilias Borthwick sold it in 1924 to Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland . Eventually it was resold to William Berry in 1937 . Contrary to the belief that the newspaper would continue to exist, it went on in the Daily Telegraph .

literature

  • Wilfrid Hindle: The Morning Post 1771-1937. Portrait of a Newspaper. Greenwood, London 1974, ISBN 0-8371-7243-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Benz : The most powerful of all lies. In: Zeit Online . October 24, 2017