OBITUARY
MR. THOMAS FISHER UNWIN
(Received February 7, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, February 6.^ The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Fisher Unwin, publisher, at the age of 87. He is remembered as the publisher who discovered Joseph Conrad. He was also John Galsworthy's first publisher.
Mr. Unwin founded the publishing house of T. Fisher Unwin in 1882. He was the joint founder of the first Committee of the Friends of Russian Freedom, a member of the South African Conciliation Committee, founder of the Johnson Club, 1884, governor of the London School of Economics, and a member of the National Liberal Club since 1883. He married a daughter of Richard Cobden.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 12
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