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Paul Julius, Baron De Reuter - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | PAUL JULIUS REUTER, BARON DE (1821-1899), founder of Reuter's News Agency, was born at Cassel, Germany. |
 | | Reuter's mind was thus directed to the value of the speedy transmission of information, and in 1849, on the completion of the first telegraph lines in Germany and France, he found an opportunity of turning his ideas to account. |
 | | Reuter was in 1871 given the title of baron by the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and by a special grant of Queen Victoria he and his heirs were authorized to have the privileges of this rank in England. |
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