15-572: Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (29 November 1906 – 8 October 1988) was a British magazine publisher and writer. Hulton was born to Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet , a newspaper publisher and racehorse owner originally from Manchester, and his second wife, music hall artist, actress and singer Millicent Warris, born Fanny Elizabeth Warriss or Wariss, also known by the stage name Millie Lindon. Educated at Harrow School , Hulton went up to Brasenose College, Oxford , in 1925 but left in December 1926 without
30-506: A cousin of the Rudge Sisters . Edward's son, Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988), published magazines including Picture Post and Lilliput , and was a member of the 1941 Committee . As Edward George Warris was born before his parents were married, he did not inherit the Hulton baronetcy which became extinct on his father's death in 1925. Edward George Warris had two sons and
45-532: A daughter by his second wife Princess Nika Yourievitch . Edward's daughter, Betty Stevens (née Hulton; 1909–1932), died at the age of 22 following the birth of her son, Sir Jocelyn Stevens . Hulton died on 23 May 1925 at the age of 56 after a prolonged illness in Downside, and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery in southwest London. The net value of his estate was £2,222,471. He bequeathed £5,000 to
60-542: A degree. Hulton founded the Hulton Press in 1937, buying Farmers' Weekly . The Hulton Press went on to publish Leader Magazine , Lilliput and the Picture Post , as well as the children's comics Eagle , Girl , Robin , and Swift . During World War II , Hulton was one of the members of the 1941 Committee , a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence not generally involved with
75-576: A political party but who came together in 1941 to press for more efficient production to enhance the war effort. Hulton helped fund the Home Guard training school at Osterley Park , organising a private supply of weapons from the United States. Though he had stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate at Leek in 1929 , his 1943 book The New Age supported a mixed welfare-state economy and he welcomed Attlee's 1945 government . Hulton discontinued
90-980: The Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1897 (renamed the Evening Chronicle in 1914), the Daily Dispatch in 1900 and the Daily Sketch , a tabloid , in 1909. Edward Hulton and Co., of London and Manchester, a private company of proprietors, printers and publishers that owned a large group of newspapers was sold for £6 million when Hulton retired due to illness in 1923. The newspapers sold, which were subsequently controlled by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere , included: Sporting Chronicle , Athletic News , Sunday Chronicle , Empire News , Evening Standard , Daily Sketch , Sunday Herald , Daily Dispatch and Evening Chronicle . Most of these newspapers were sold again soon afterwards, to
105-670: The Allied Newspapers consortium formed in 1924 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1943 and bought by Roy Thomson in 1959). The newspapers Hulton founded have since merged with other newspapers. In 1955, the Daily Dispatch merged with the News Chronicle , which was subsequently absorbed into the Daily Mail in 1960. The Evening Chronicle merged with the Manchester Evening News in 1963. The Daily Sketch merged with
120-537: The Daily Mail in 1971. Hulton owned a successful thoroughbred horse racing stable. With Richard Dawson training his horses, he was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1916. That year his wins included the filly Fifinella capturing The Oaks and The Derby double. His horses Roseway and Straitlace won the 1919 1,000 Guineas and the 1924 Epsom Oaks respectively. He also registered his racing colours under
135-569: The Picture Post in 1957 and sold the Hulton Press to Odhams two years later. He was knighted for services to journalism in 1957. The photographic archive of Picture Post became an important historical documentary resource. It was set up by Hulton as a semi-independent operation, officially incorporated as the Hulton Press Library in 1947. It was bought by the BBC in 1958 and incorporated into
150-754: The Radio Times photo archive, which was then sold to Brian Deutsch in 1988. In 1996 the Hulton Picture Collection was bought for £8.6m by Getty Images , who has retained the Hulton Archive as a featured resource within its large holdings. Hulton was married twice, first to Kira Goudime-Levkovitsch in 1927, and then later in 1946 to Princess Nika Yourievitch . Together Yourievitch and Hulton had two sons and one daughter, named Edward Alexander Sergius Hulton, Cosmo Philip Paul Hulton and Elizabeth Frances Helen Hulton. The marriage between Yourievitch and Hulton
165-431: The pseudonym "Mr. Lytham". Edward Hulton was the chairman of Manchester City F.C. in the early 1900s. Hulton was first married to Agnes Moir Turnbull Wood in 1900. He had a son and a daughter by his second wife, Fanny Warris (1869–1940), whom he married in 1916. Warris was a music hall artist, actress and singer, née Fanny Elizabeth Warriss or Wariss, also known by the stage name Millie Lindon , and
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#1732851348328180-569: The Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead , for which he previously helped finance a new church building completed in 1923. Athletic News 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
195-613: Was an advocate of professional football and many of its staff were actively involved in the sport. In 1931 it merged with 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
210-670: Was born on 3 March 1869 in Hulme , Manchester . He was the second son of Edward Hulton (1838–1904), a Manchester newspaper publisher, and his wife, Mary Mosley. He was raised as a Roman Catholic in Whalley Range, Manchester and attended St Bede's Commercial College from 1878–85. Hulton's father founded the Sporting Chronicle in 1871, the Athletic News in 1875 and the Sunday Chronicle in 1885. Hulton subsequently founded
225-561: Was dissolved in 1966, though the two lived together again for the last nine years of Hulton's life before he died on 8 October 1988. Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (3 March 1869 – 23 May 1925) was a British newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner. In 1921, he was awarded a baronetcy , of Downside in the parish of Leatherhead in Surrey , for public services during World War I , which became extinct on his death in 1925. Hulton
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