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  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin – August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner with his brother Harold, Lord Rothermere.
Harmsworth was made a baron in 1905, and a viscount in 1917.
Harmsworth was the son of a barrister, one of several high achieving children, and chose a career as a free-lance journalist.
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 Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe
Harmsworth was a great supporter of flying and in 1906 offered a prize of £1,000 for the first airman to cross the English Channel from Calais to Dover and £10,000 prize for the first completed flight from London to Manchester.
Northcliffe continued his attacks on Lord Kitchener and when he heard he had been killed he remarked: "The British Empire has just had the greatest stroke of luck in its history." After the death of Kitchener he concentrated on having Herbert Asquith removed.
Alfred Harmsworth was a journalist at the age of sixteen, a proprietor at twenty-two, a baronet at thirty-eight, a baron at forty, and a viscount at fifty.
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Harmsworth, Harold Sidney, 1st Viscount Rothermere: brother, Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was born in Chapelizod,...
Harmsworth, Harold Sidney, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940), newspaper manager and businessman, who established a newspaper publishing empire in...
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Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount 1865-1922, British journalist, b.
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William see Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount.
Consent refused for Northcliffe to acquire Radstock and Midsomer Norton Journal.
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 The Northcliffe Cup
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), known as Lord Northcliffe, was a leading British newspaper publisher.
The Northcliffe Cup was presented by Lord Northcliffe to the Aero Club in 1906, to be awarded annually on the first of January to the Briton who made the longest flight during the preceding year.
One of the rules of the Northcliffe Cup was that if it was won by the same person in two consecutive years it became the property of the holder, and thus it became the property of John Dunville.
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Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount 1865–1922, British journalist, b.
With his brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere) as his financial administrator, he increased the circulation of his magazine in five years to more than a million copies a week.
His newspaper campaigns during World War I, particularly those concerning faulty munitions, national conscription, and food rationing, were determining factors in England's conduct of the war, and his support of Lloyd George in 1916 was instrumental in bringing the downfall of the Asquith government.
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 Encyclopedia: Daily Mail
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner.
David Lloyd George, asked Northcliffe to be in his cabinet, hoping it would prevent him criticising the government.
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January 17, 1863 – March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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 Peerage News: Elen Lady Harmsworth
Elen Lady Harmsworth, who died 29 December, 2005, at her home in France, aged 101 (3 weeks before her 102nd birthday), was widow of Sir Hildebrand Alfred Beresford Harmsworth, 2nd Baronet, who died in 1977.
Her husband was a nephew of the 1st (and last) Viscount Northcliffe, and the 1st Viscount Rothermere; a son of Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, who edited the New Liberal Review 1901-04, and was sometime proprietor of The Globe.
She was born in January, 1904, as Elen Billenstein, daughter of Nicolaj Billenstein, of Randers, Denmark, and married Hildebrand Harmsworth in 1925.
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He was the son of Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere and Mary Lilian Share.
He was the son of Alfred Harmsworth and Geraldine Mary Maffet.
She married Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, son of Alfred Harmsworth and Geraldine Mary Maffet, on 11 April 1888.
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Rothermere, Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount, Baron Rothermere Of Hemsted
British newspaper proprietor who, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, built the most successful journalistic empire in British history and created popular journalism in that country.
The eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, he received his titles...
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 Viscount Northcliffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title Viscount Northcliffe, of St Peter in the County of Kent, was created in 1918 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for the famous press baron Alfred Harmsworth.
He had already been created a Baronet in 1904 and Baron Northcliffe, of the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent, in 1905.
Lord Northcliffe was the elder brother of Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere and Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.
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Rotherham town expanded rapidly after the founding of ironworks there in 1746, and in the 19th century it became part of a continuous...
A shy individual, he let his brother handle the public and journalistic side of the business, while he handled financial problems with...
The eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, he received his titles on the death of his father in 1915.
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16 Jul 1865, at Chapelizod, Co. DublinViscount Northcliffe of St. Peter's in the Co of Kent; creation 23 Nov 1917;  Baron Northcliffe of the Isle of Thanet, creation 23 Dec 1905 ;  and a Baronet of the United Kingdom; m.
Lost in the sinking of R.M.S. "Leinster" by a German submarine in the Irish Channel, 10 Oct 1918, aged 15.
26 Apr 1868; Viscount Rothmere, creation April 1919, Baron Rothmere of Hemstead in the county of Kent; creation 17 Jan 1914 and a Baronet of the United Kingdom; m.
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The Northcliffe group of regional newspapers have been dragging their feet across the country over Labour’s new union recognition laws.
Northcliffe is the first newspaper group in the UK to force the National Union of Journalists to consider legal action which would force them to allow a union recognition ballot in their newsrooms.
The Daily Mail was started in the late ninteenth century by Alfred Harmsworth, later to become Lord Northcliffe.
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 Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), Newspaper proprietor
Newspaper proprietor and journalist; founded Daily Mail (1896), Daily Mirror (1903), chief proprietor of The Times (1908); amassed large fortune and became public figure of great influence during 1914-18 War, backing and subsequently alienating Lloyd George.
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe in his car with three unknown men
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 Shiel’s Collaborators II: Louis Tracy (1863-1928)
The Sun he advised Arthur Harmsworth (later Lord, then Viscount Northcliffe, 1865-1922) of the potential sale of
The Evening News and Post and in 1894 joined Harmsworth in acquiring the paper.
The Evening News, before selling his shares to Harmsworth.
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