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    Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (15 July 1865 – 14 August 1922), was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner...
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  • 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...
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    Newspapers Ltd. He is best known, like his brother Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and the Daily...
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    of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and the elder brother of Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet...
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    three of whom died in infancy: Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922) Geraldine Adelaide Hamilton Harmsworth (1866–1945), married Sir Lucas...
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    newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. The fourth child in a family of three...
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  • the Daily Mail by Harold Harmsworth (later created, in July 1919, The 1st Viscount Rothermere) and his elder brother, Alfred. It was incorporated in 1922...
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    of the 1st Viscount Northcliffe, the 1st Viscount Rothermere, the 1st Baron Harmsworth and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet. Harmsworth was a director...
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  • Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) (1901-04) and named for Sir Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, a generous contributor to the expedition. 78°41′S 161°22′E...
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    brothers were Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester...
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  • Kingdom on 23 August 1904 for the press lord Alfred Harmsworth. He was later created Viscount Northcliffe, with which title the baronetcy merged and became...
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    proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, and the elder brother of Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st...
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    losing £40,000 a year. The brothers Alfred and Harold Harmsworth bought the paper for £25,000 in 1894. In 1888 Alfred had founded a paper called Answers...
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  • newspaper proprietors Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere. They had issue: Elinor Mary Kathleen...
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  • London Stock Exchange. The Daily Mirror was launched by Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, "for gentlewomen" in 1903. The company was first listed...
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  • retrieved 8 January 2012 Boyce, D. George (2004). Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    (1847–89); Napoleon III, (1840); Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, (1920–22), the newspaper magnate and Viscount Bearsted, (from 1928), son of...
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  • The Daily Mirror was launched on 2 November 1903 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) as a newspaper for women, run by women. About the name...
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    brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth and Leicester...
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    John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (category Younger sons of viscounts)
    The Times newspaper following the death of its owner, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. He was a director of the Great Western Railway (1929-1946)...
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  • intermediate holding company for Associated Newspapers, Northcliffe Media, Harmsworth Printing, Harmsworth Media and other subsidiaries of Daily Mail and General...
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  • Gallery in London holds a copper medallion portrait of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe by Bell. Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical...
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    Answers was a British weekly paper founded in 1888 by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe). Originally titled Answers to Correspondents, before...
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    clock was returned by Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (the brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe) in 1935 to mark the Silver...
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    assisted migration scheme. British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, actively promoted the scheme in its early years through...
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    Northcliffe, Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth record Northcliffe's brother Rothermere writing contemporaneously, "Alfred has been actively at work with Ll...
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  • Marlborough Mansions on Cannon Hill, newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe at 31 Pandora Road, and ophthalmologist Dame Ida Mann...
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  • magazine. The Daily Mail, devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Viscount Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Viscount Rothermere), was first published...
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  • (July 1957) 7#7 pp 425-435. P.P. Catterall and Colin Seymour-Ure, "Northcliffe, Viscount." in John Ramsden, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century...
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    In 1898, the newspaper's proprietor, Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, launched the popular Harmsworth Magazine (afterwards retitled The London...
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