THE MORNING POST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 9

THE MORNING POST.

PURCHASE NEGOTIATIONS.

A. and' N.Z. - * LONDON, Nov. 20. ~.-■ The Daily Express states that the Yorkshire. Post group of ; papers, which/ is opposed 'to v monopolies in '.' newspaper ownership, are reported to be negotiating with Lady Bathurst for the purchase of the Morning Post. . ' «

, The Morning Post is the oldest of existing London daily newspapers, . : and dates > from ; 1772. .;; In 1795 it was sold for £600 to Peter and Daniel Stuart, who quickly raised its position by enlisting Sir James Mackintosh and the poet Coleridge in its service. ' - Many ; of '-■ the* lyrics of Moore and some of the' noblest sonnets of Wordsworth were first published in'the Post. In 1850 it was ? heavily in debt and was taken over by i Messrs. J. and T. B. Crompton, the paper manufacturers, ' who entrusted its management ;. to Peter Borthwick, ' a Scotsman. Borthwick; died two years later, but his son, Algernon Itorthwick,, later Lord • Glertesk, succeeded him and under his management prosperity returned. ' - Borthwick, who became sole proprietor *in 1877, gave the Post a strong political colour as s Conservative, Imperialist' and Protectionist— which it still retains uridimmed. In 1887 Borthwick was raised to the peerage as Lord Glenesk and on his death in 1905 the proprietorship jof .the Post passed to his only surviving child, a daughter, who married the Seventh Earl Bathing.