14-469: The Athletic News and Cyclists' Journal was a Manchester-based newspaper founded by Edward Hulton in 1875. It was published weekly , covering weekend sports fixtures other than horse racing, which was already covered by the Sporting Chronicle founded by Hulton in 1871. It was an advocate of professional football and many of its staff were actively involved in the sport. In 1931 it merged with
28-412: A local cotton merchant. Sales were boosted by the decision of several local newspapers including The Manchester Guardian to restrict racing coverage to appease the growing anti-gambling sentiment in society. The Sporting Chronicle , a broadsheet which specialised in horse racing and published starting price odds, became the first major national daily sporting newspaper. Its main competitor
42-421: Is the grandfather of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988), and the great-grandfather of magazine publisher and newspaper executive Sir Jocelyn Stevens (1932–2014). Hulton's daughter Theresa married Portuguese baron Sebastião Clemente de Sousa Deiró, 1st Baron of Sousa Deiró ( Ponta Delgada , 17 April 1866 – 1916) in 1894. Hulton's fourth daughter, Dame Margaret, DBE (1867–1950),
56-803: The Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1897, the Daily Dispatch in 1900 and the Daily Sketch tabloid in 1909. Edward sold his publishing business based in London and Manchester, which included a large group of newspapers, for £6 million when he retired in 1923. The newspapers sold included: Sporting Chronicle , Athletic News , Sunday Chronicle , Empire News , Evening Standard , Daily Sketch , Sunday Herald , Daily Dispatch and Manchester Evening Chronicle . Hulton married Mary Mosley in 1859. Through his son Edward (1869–1925), Hulton
70-909: The Sunday Chronicle . The newspapers founded by Hulton survived in some form long after his death. In 1931 the Athletic News merged with the Monday edition of the Sporting Chronicle , which ceased publication in 1983. In 1955 the Sunday Chronicle merged with the Empire News , which merged five years later with the News of the World tabloid , which ceased publication in 2011. Hulton's second son Edward expanded his father's newspaper interests, founding
84-641: The Sporting Chronicle 's Monday edition. The original name was preserved until the 1940s in the titles of the Athletic News Football Annual first issued in 1887 and the Athletic News Cricket Annual first issued in 1888; both these annuals were eventually taken over by the Sunday Chronicle , founded by Hulton in 1885. This English newspaper–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Edward Hulton (senior) Edward Hulton (1838–1904)
98-407: The big industrial towns of the midlands and the north. Printed on one side of a single sheet, it carried the latest news from the courses, the selections of the leading morning papers, and up-to-date betting odds from the principal clubs. The Sporting Bell ultimately grew into the Sporting Chronicle newspaper Hulton founded in 1871 with financial backing from Edward Overall Bleackley (1831–1898),
112-698: Was a British newspaper proprietor in Victorian Manchester . Born the son of a weaver , he was an entrepreneur who established a vast newspaper empire and was the progenitor of a publishing dynasty. [He] never pretended to be other than a plain man who had struck lucky. Originally a bill-setter for the Manchester Guardian , he had built up a fine business out of the profits of a sporting tissue which had gone well in sport-mad Manchester. Bernard Falk, He Laughed in Fleet Street Hulton
126-530: Was born in Manchester on 16 July 1838, the son of a weaver. While working as a compositor for The Manchester Guardian (now known as The Guardian ), he earned extra income publishing the Sporting Bell , a popular local horse racing tip sheet , under a pseudonym named after Kettledrum , the 1861 Epsom Derby winner. The Bell was similar to any number of midday racing tissues that proliferated in
140-617: Was published on both Saturdays and Sundays. The socialist Robert Blatchford worked for the paper in its early years and, owing to his influence, it supported the Manningham Mills strikers. However, Blatchford was sacked immediately after the strike and instead founded the Clarion with the paper's drama critic, Alexander M. Thompson . Hulton's son, also Edward Hulton , took over the business on his father's death, but sold it to Allied Newspapers in 1924 for £6 million. Publication
154-458: Was the Sporting Life established in 1859. The contents of both publications were based upon betting and racing information for all course, track and field events associated with gambling, but they also propagated the art of the tipsters, those who claimed to know the winners of future races. Writing as "Kettledrum", Hulton was also the Sporting Chronicle' s tipster , and a tipping column
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#1732851688958168-561: Was the second wife of Baron Strickland , 4th Prime Minister of Malta , marrying him in 1926. Together with Strickland's daughter Mabel Edeline Strickland from his first marriage, the couple founded The Times of Malta . Hulton died in 1904 at the age of 65 in Bucklow , Cheshire, and is buried in Sale Brooklands Cemetery in Sale, Greater Manchester . The net value of his estate
182-621: Was written by others under the same pseudonym until the newspaper closed in 1983. Hulton's publishing business started off in a basement in Spear Street in Manchester city centre . In 1873 premises were established for the expanding business at Withy Grove, the current site of The Printworks entertainment complex. In 1875 Hulton also founded the weekly Athletic News , which covered weekend sports fixtures other than horse racing and supported professional football , and in 1885 he founded
196-572: Was £509,000. Sunday Chronicle The Sunday Chronicle was a newspaper in the United Kingdom , published from 1885 to 1955. The newspaper was founded in Manchester by Edward Hulton in August 1885. He was known for his sporting coverage, already publishing the Sporting Chronicle , the Daily Dispatch and the Athletic News . The paper initially cost one penny and, despite its name,
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