Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868 - 1940) was a highly successful British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers. He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Lord Northcliffe, for the development of the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror. He was a pioneer of popular journalism.

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1868 - 1940 - British - Newspaper - Associated Newspapers - Alfred Harmsworth - Lord Northcliffe - Daily Mail - Daily Mirror

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Harmsworth founded the Glasgow Daily Record, and the Sunday Pictorial, but his greatest success came with the Daily Mirror, which had a circulation of three million by 1922. His elder brother died without an heir in that year, and he acquired control of his newspaper the Daily Mail.

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Glasgow Daily Record - Sunday Pictorial - Daily Mirror - Daily Mail

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He served as President of the Air Council in the government of David Lloyd George for a time during World War I, and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Rothermere. In 1921, he founded the Anti-Waste League to combat what he saw as excessive government spending.

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President of the Air Council - David Lloyd George - World War I - Viscount Rothermere - 1921 - Anti-Waste League

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Rothermere's descendants continue to control the Daily Mail and General Trust plc.

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