Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet
| Sir Edward Hulton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
3 March 1869 Hulme, Manchester, England |
| Died | 23 May 1925 (aged 56) Downside, Surrey, England |
| Resting place |
Putney Vale Cemetery, London 51°26′26″N 0°14′21″W / 51.440522°N 0.239189°W |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Newspaper proprietor |
| Spouse(s) | Agnes Moir Wood (m. 1900) Millicent Warris (m. 1916) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
Edward Hulton (father) Margaret, Lady Strickland (sister) Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (son) Sir Jocelyn Stevens (grandson) |
Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (3 March 1869 – 23 May 1925) was a British newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner. In 1921 he was awarded a baronetcy, of Downside in the parish of Leatherhead in Surrey, for public services during the First World War, which became extinct on his death in 1925.
Hulton was born on 3 March 1869 in Hulme, Manchester. He was the second son of Edward Hulton (1838–1904), a Manchester newspaper publisher, and his wife Mary (née Mosley). He was raised as a Roman Catholic in the Manchester district of Whalley Range and was educated at the St Bede's Commercial College from 1878 to 1885.
Hulton's father had founded the Sporting Chronicle in 1871, the Athletic News in 1875 and the Sunday Chronicle in 1885. Hulton subsequently founded the Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1897 (renamed Evening Chronicle in 1914), the Daily Dispatch in 1900 and the Daily Sketch tabloid in 1909. Edward Hulton and Co., of London and Manchester, a private company of proprietors, printers and publishers which owned a large group of newspapers was sold for £6 million when Hulton retired due to illness in 1923. The newspapers sold, which were subsequently controlled by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, included: Sporting Chronicle,Athletic News,Sunday Chronicle, Empire News, Evening Standard,Daily Sketch, Sunday Herald, Daily Dispatch and Evening Chronicle. Most of these newspapers were sold again soon afterwards, to the Allied Newspapers consortium formed in 1924 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1943 and bought by Roy Thomson in 1959).
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