GREAT LONDON JOURNAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21289, 16 September 1932, Page 11

GREAT LONDON JOURNAL

THE MORNING POST

UNPARALLELED EVENT

50,000 th ISSUE ON MONDAY By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received September 15, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept, 13 I The Morning Post announces that on j Monday it will publish its 50,000 th issue. : This event is unparalleled in the history | of daily newspapers printed in the Eng- | lish language. i The Morning Post, a Conservative organ, is the oldest daily .newspaper existing in- London. It was established on November 2, 1772. r lhe present editor is Mr. H. A. Gwynne, who has occupied that position since 1911. First published as the Morning Post and Daily Advertising Pamphlet it was an eight page paper. It was mostly an advertising sheet, including State lotteries, which were legal and popular at that time. It developed into a national newspaper under the ownership of Messrs. Peter and Daniel Stuart after 1795 and attracted a wonderful galaxy of writers, including Sir James Mackintosh, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Southey, Arthur Young, the poets Moore and Wordsworth and Charles Lanib. At the beginning of the 19th century the circulation of the paper was 4000 a dav. After 1852, under Algernon Borthwick, the Morning Post became the leading society paper, and its fashionable characteristics often made it. the butt of Thackeray's satirical pen. During Lord I'almerston's tenure of the Foreign Office the paper was always regarded as his especial organ, and even in those early days it was distinguished for its robust imperialism in foreign affairs. In 1877 Mr. Borthwiek became sole owner of the Morning Post and four years later he reduced the price from 3d to Id, at which it stood till the Great War, when it was raised to 2d, being again reduced to Id in 1927. Mr. Borthwick became a knight, then a baronet and was raised to the peerage as Lord Glenash in 1895. When he died in 3908 the ownership passed to his only surviving child, Countess Bat hurst. She disposed of the paper in 1923 to a group headed by tho Duke of Northumberland. Among previous editors were Sir W'illiam Hardman, Mr. J. Nicol Dunn and Sir Fabian Ware.