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Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the county of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. He had already been created a baronet, of Horsey in the County of Norfolk, on 14 July 1910, and Baron Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent ...
18 dic 2016 · Viscount Rothermere: a media baron who keeps his distance. Peter Preston. The Daily Mail’s owner controls the second- and third-biggest dailies in the UK. Even if we never hear from him, he’s a...
Duke University. Occupation. Publisher. Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (born 3 December 1967), is a British peer and owner of a newspaper and media empire founded by his great-grandfather Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.
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- Support For Revising Post-First World War Treaties
- Break with Baldwin: The United Empire Party Gambit
- "Enthusiast" For Fascism
Harmsworth was the second son of Alfred and Geraldine Mary Harmsworth. His thirteen siblings included Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet. Harmsworth was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, which he left to become...
In 1896 Harmsworth and his brother Alfred together founded the Daily Mail, and subsequently also launched the Daily Mirror. In 1910 Harmsworth bought the Glasgow Record and Mail, and in 1915 the Sunday Pictorial. By 1921 he was owner of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Pictorial, Glasgow Daily Record, Evening News, and Sunday Mail, and shared ownership of ...
In 1904, on behalf of his elder brother Alfred, Harmsworth and Mayson Beeton, son of Isabella Beeton, the famed author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, travelled to Newfoundland to search for a supply of timber and to look for a site to build and operate a pulp and paper mill. While searching along the Exploits River they came across G...
In 1903, the first flight took place, and the new technology of aviation had a very romantic and exciting image in the first half of the 20th century. Harmsworth was amongst those fascinated with aviation, and came up with the idea in 1906 of having the Harmsworth newspapers offer a cheque of £1,000 for the first person to fly across the English Ch...
Harmsworth was created a baronet, of Horsey in the County of Norfolk, in 1910. Despite the fact that one of the chief rivals of the Harmsworth newspapers was the Daily Express owned by Max Aitken (the future Lord Beaverbrook), in May 1913 Harmsworth went with Aitkens on a lengthy business trip to western Canada. The trip to Canada marked the start ...
The politician Rothermere was most close to prior to the First World War was Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1915, Rothermere wrote to Churchill asking him to promote one of his former reporters, Jack Kruse, to the rank of captain in the Royal Naval Division, a request that was granted. The ill-fated Dardanelles campaign, whi...
When his elder brother died in 1922 without an heir, Harmsworth acquired his controlling interest in Associated Newspapers for £1.6 million, and the next year bought the Hulton newspaper chain, which gave him control of three national morning newspapers, three national Sunday newspapers, two London evening papers, four provincial daily newspapers, ...
In the spring of 1927, while playing roulette at a casino in Monte Carlo, Rothermere met the Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, who soon became his mistress. The meeting at the roulette table was not an accident as the princess von Hohenhohe had gone to Monte Carlo with the aim of seducing Rothermere, and had done extensive research on Rothermere's ...
Rothermere was very strongly opposed to the decision of the Baldwin government to lower the age of female voters from 30 to 21 as he used the Daily Mail and his other newspapers to argue that allowing young women the right to vote would swing the 1929 election to the Labour party. Besides for his opposition to female voters in general, Rothermere u...
In the 1930s Rothermere used his newspapers to try to influence British politics, particularly reflecting his strong support of the appeasement of Nazi Germany; historian Martin Pugh considers him "perhaps the most influential single propagandist for fascism between the wars". In 1937, the Daily Mail had a daily circulation of 1,580,000 subscribers...
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4 ott 2013 · The 45-year-old is the fourth Viscount Rothermere, and inherited the chairmanship of DMGT at the age of 30 on the death of his father in 1998. His great-grandfather, Harold Sidney Harmsworth,...
There are, though, times when the hereditary principle works out more successfully, and though it pains any egalitarian to admit it, the 4th Viscount Rothermere, Jonathan Harmsworth (that being ...
22 nov 2021 · Viscount Rothermere: a media baron who keeps his distance The Daily Mail’s owner controls the second and third biggest dailies in the UK. Even if we never hear from him, he’s a clear choice as...
