Edward Hulton

{{Short description|British newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner}}

{{for multi|his father, the newspaper proprietor born in 1838|Edward Hulton (senior)|his son, the magazine publisher born in 1906|Edward George Warris Hulton}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Sir Edward Hulton

| image =

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| birth_name = Edward Hulton

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|03|03|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hulme, Manchester, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|05|23|1869|03|03|df=y}}

| death_place = Downside, Surrey, England

| resting_place = Putney Vale Cemetery, London

| resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|51.440522|-0.239189}}

| nationality = British

| occupation = Newspaper proprietor

| children = 2

| spouse = {{marriage|Agnes Moir Wood|1900}}
Millie Lindon (m. 1916)

| relatives = Edward Hulton (father)
Margaret, Lady Strickland (sister)
Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (son)
Sir Jocelyn Stevens (grandson)}}

File:Manchester Printworks Interior 1306.JPG developed on the former Manchester site of Edward Hulton and Co.]]

Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (3 March 1869 – 23 May 1925) was a British newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner.{{cite ODNB|last=Porter|first=Dilwyn|title=Hulton, Sir Edward, baronet (1869–1925), newspaper proprietor|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34048}}

In 1921, he was awarded a baronetcy, of Downside in the parish of Leatherhead in Surrey, for public services during World War I,{{London Gazette|issue=31316|date=29 April 1919|page=5420 |supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=32558|date=23 December 1921|page=10486}} which became extinct on his death in 1925.

Early life

Hulton was born on 3 March 1869 in Hulme, Manchester.{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=24 August 2013|quote=Births Mar 1869 – Surname: Hulton, Given Name: Edward, District: Chorlton, Volume: 8c, Page: 745}} He was the second son of Edward Hulton (1838–1904), a Manchester newspaper publisher,{{cite book|last=Tate|first=Steve|editor1-last=Brake|editor1-first=Laurel|editor2-last=Demoor|editor2-first=Marysa|chapter=Hulton, Edward (1838–1904)|title=Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland|year=2009|publisher=Academia Press|location=Gent|isbn=978-90-382-1340-8|page=296|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC}} and his wife, Mary Mosley.{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=26 August 2013|quote=Marriages Jun 1859 – Surname: Hulton/Mosley, Given Name: Edward/Mary, District: Manchester, Volume: 8d, Page: 662}}

He was raised as a Roman Catholic in Whalley Range, Manchester and attended St Bede's Commercial College from 1878–85.

Newspapers

Hulton's father founded the Sporting Chronicle in 1871, the Athletic News in 1875 and the Sunday Chronicle in 1885. Hulton subsequently founded the Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1897 (renamed the Evening Chronicle in 1914),{{cite book|editor-last=Shattock|editor-first=Joanne|title=The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature|year=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-39100-9|page=2899|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zc6BnY4UQmIC&q=The+Cambridge+Bibliography+of+English+Literature:+1800-1900}} 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,{{cite book|last1=Huggins|first1=Mike|last2=Williams|first2=Jack|title=Sport and the English, 1918–1939: Between the Wars|year=2005|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-203-39802-9|page=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGufuCdDNjgC|quote=In the north the Sporting Chronicle (founded 1871) was the leading racing daily. In 1924 it was acquired from its founder Sir Edward Hulton by the press barons Northcliffe and Beaverbrook}} Athletic News,{{cite thesis|type=PhD|first=Stephen|last=Tate|title=The professionalisation of sports journalism, c. 1850 to 1939, with particular reference to the career of James Catton|url=http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/7711/1/Stephen%20Tate%20May07%20The%20professionalisation%20of%20sports%20journalism,%200850%20to%201939,%20with%20particular%20reference%20to%20the%20career%20of%20James%20Catton%20PHD%20unpublished%20May07%20University%20of%20Central%20Lancashire%20history%20396.pdf|publisher=University of Central Lancashire |year=2007|page=321|quote=The Athletic News had only recently changed hands, twice, in fact, in the space of a matter of months as a makeweight in a complex deal in the autumn of 1923 involving Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Rothermere, and the Berry brothers. The severing of the Hulton family ties, extending in Catton's case to more than 30 years, heralded a period of change and can only have served to further weaken any resolve on his part to extend his career in Manchester.}} Sunday Chronicle, Empire News, Evening Standard,{{cite news|last=Brook|first=Stephen|title=A history of the London Evening Standard: seeing off rivals for 181 years|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/14/history-london-evening-standard|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 January 2009}} Daily Sketch, Sunday Herald, Daily Dispatch and Evening Chronicle.{{cite book|title=British and Colonial Printer and Stationer: And Newspaper Press, Volumes 96-97|year=1925|publisher=W. J. Stonhill|pages=92, 464|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XEjAQAAMAAJ|quote=Sir Edward Hulton, who died on Saturday at his residence near Leatherhead, at the age of 56, was till about 18 months ago the owner of a large group of newspapers, being the founder of the business of Edward Hulton and Co..}}{{cite book|title=Gleanings and Memoranda, Volume 58|year=1923|publisher=National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations|page=589|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I6A5AQAAIAAJ|quote=Newspaper Changes: The Daily Mail announced, Oct. 13, that the Daily Mail Trust, Ltd., had acquired the business of Messrs. Edward Hulton and Co., Ltd., of London and Manchester, for £6 million. The papers taken over include: Evening Standard, Daily Sketch, Sunday Herald, Daily Dispatch, Evening Chronicle, Sunday Chronicle and Empire News.}}{{cite news|title=English Publishers Confirm Big Combine|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19231013&id=FyFQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wgoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4252,400995|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel|date=13 October 1923|quote=Recent reports that the Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook combine had acquired the Sir Edward Hulton newspaper interests, comprising the Evening Standard, the Daily Sketch, the Sunday Herald and several Manchester newspapers, are confirmed by an official announcement in the Daily Mail that the Daily Mail trust has bought the Hulton interests for £6,000,000. The announcement says Lord Beaverbrook will control the Evening Standard and that the Daily Mail trust will control all the other publications.}}

Most of these newspapers were sold again soon afterwards, to the Allied Newspapers consortium formed in 1924 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1943 and bought by Roy Thomson in 1959).{{cite book|author=Viscount Camrose|author-link=William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose|title=British Newspapers And Their Controllers|year=1947|publisher=Cassel And Company Limited|location=London, UK|url=https://archive.org/details/brtishnewspapers035281mbp}}{{cite ODNB|last=Smith|first=Adrian|title=Berry, William Ewert, first Viscount Camrose (1879–1954), newspaper proprietor|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/30733|year=2004|access-date=5 September 2013|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30733}}{{cite ODNB|last=Smith|first=Adrian|title=Berry, (James) Gomer, first Viscount Kemsley (1883–1968), newspaper proprietor|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/30731|year=2004|access-date=5 September 2013|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30731}}

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.{{cite news|last=Robins|first=Peter|title=The death of newspapers, part 1: 1910|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2009/aug/21/death-of-newspapers-1910|access-date=23 August 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 August 2009}} The Evening Chronicle merged with the Manchester Evening News in 1963.{{cite news|title=Manchester Evening Chronicle closing down|url=http://www.venuebooking.com/permalink/4729.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130823101915/http://www.venuebooking.com/permalink/4729.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 August 2013|access-date=23 August 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=26 July 1963}} The Daily Sketch merged with the Daily Mail in 1971.{{cite web|title=11 May 1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_2860000/2860297.stm|access-date=23 August 2013|publisher=BBC}}

Sport

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 the pseudonym "Mr. Lytham".{{cite web|title=Person Profile: Sir Edward Hulton|url=http://www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/hrho/action/viewDocument?id=1311|publisher=The National Horseracing Museum|access-date=23 August 2013}}{{cite news|title=Life Stories of Famous Jockeys. Frank Wootton.|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57466652|access-date=30 August 2013|newspaper=The Register (Adelaide, SA)|date=19 January 1924|quote=While the father [Richard Wootton], at Treadwell House, trained many fine horses for Sir E. Hulton (then racing as Mr. Lytham)}}

Edward Hulton was the chairman of Manchester City F.C. in the early 1900s.{{cite book|last=James|first=Gary|title=Manchester – A Football History|publisher=James Ward|location=Halifax|year=2008|isbn=978-0-9558127-0-5|page=111}}

Marriages and children

File:Edward Hulton grave Putney Vale 2015.jpg, London, in 2015]]

Hulton was first married to Agnes Moir Turnbull Wood in 1900.{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=1 September 2013|quote=Marriages Jun 1900 – Surname: Hulton/Wood/Turnbull, Given Name: Edward/Agnes Moir, District: Bedford, Volume: 3b, Page: 785}}{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=1 September 2013|quote=Marriages Mar 1916 – Surname: Hulton/Warriss/Wallen, Given Name: Edward/Florence E, District: Marylebone, Volume: 1a, Page: 1418}} He had a son and a daughter by his second wife,{{cite news|title=Sir E. Hulton, Noted Publisher, is Dead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19250525&id=Q5AuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zIsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6881,3419196|access-date=31 August 2013|newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|date=25 May 1925|quote=His immediate family ... consisted of Lady Hulton and two children, Teddy, 16 and Betty, 15. A baronetcy was awarded to him in 1919 in the list of war honors given by Lloyd George.}} Fanny Warris (1869–1940), whom he married in 1916.{{cite ODNB|last=Seymour-Ure|first=Colin| author-link = Colin Seymour-Ure |title=Hulton, Sir Edward George Warris (1906–1988), magazine publisher and writer|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/40161|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/40161|access-date=26 August 2013}}

Warris was a music hall artist, actress and singer, née Fanny Elizabeth Warriss or Wariss, also known by the stage name Millie Lindon, and a cousin of the Rudge Sisters.{{cite web|last=Baker|first=Richard Anthony|title=Music hall of fame – Millie Lindon|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2005/10/music-hall-of-fame-millie-lindon/|date=25 October 2005|work=The Stage|access-date=26 August 2013}}{{cite web|title=Research Interests – Graeme Cruickshank|url=http://www.str.org.uk/research/interests/interests/c.html|publisher=The Society for Theatre Research|access-date=27 August 2013|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001718/http://www.str.org.uk/research/interests/interests/c.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=1 September 2013|quote=Births Jun 1869 – Surname: Warriss, Given Name: Fanny Elizabeth, District: Kings Norton, Volume: 6c, Page: 388}}

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 a daughter by his second wife Princess Nika Yourievitch. Edward's daughter, Betty Stevens (née Hulton; 1909–1932),{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=26 August 2013|quote=Births Jun 1909 – Surname: Hulton, Given Name: Mary Frances, District: Strand, Volume: 1b, Page: 540}}{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=26 August 2013|quote=Marriages Jun 1931 – Surname: Hulton/Stevens, Given Name: Frances M/Charles G B, District: St. Martin, Volume: 1a, Page: 1214}}{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=26 August 2013|quote=Deaths Mar 1932 – Surname: Stevens, Given Name: Frances M, Age: 22, District: Marylebone, Volume: 1a, Page: 776}} died at the age of 22 following the birth of her son, Sir Jocelyn Stevens.{{cite news|author=Farndale, Nigel|author-link=Nigel Farndale|title=A hard man to like|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4716052/A-hard-man-to-like.html|date=24 October 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921162016/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4716052/A-hard-man-to-like.html|archive-date=21 September 2013|url-status=dead|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=28 August 2013|quote=When his mother, Betty, went into labour with him there were dangerous complications. The child lived but she died a few days later ... He had four children, two boys and two girls. One of them, Rupert, was disabled with palsy and died at the age of 22 in 1989.}} [http://www.nigelfarndale.com/2013/06/jocelyn-stevens Alt URL]{{cite news|last=Greenstreet|first=Rosanna|title=How We Met – Jocelyn Stevens and John Hedgecoe|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-1317333.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921204653/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-1317333.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 September 2013|access-date=29 August 2013|newspaper=The Independent|date=4 February 1996|quote=Jocelyn's mother died a week after his birth and he inherited all this money.}}{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=26 August 2013|quote=Births Jun 1932 – Surname: Stevens, Given Name: Jocelyn E G, Mother: Hulton, District: Marylebone, Volume: 1a, Page: 594}}

Death

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.{{cite web|title=FreeBMD – Search|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl|access-date=24 August 2013|quote=Deaths Jun 1925 – Surname: Hulton, Given Name: Edward, Age: 56, District: Epsom, Volume: 2a, Page: 76}}{{cite book|last=Pearson|first=Lynn F.|title=Discovering Famous Graves|year=2004|publisher=Shire|location=Princes Risborough|isbn=978-0-7478-0619-6|page=71|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IaHTin6y2wC|quote=In the popular Putney Vale Cemetery, Kingston Road, SW15, with its many monuments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, are buried ... Sir Edward Hulton (1869–1925), the newspaper proprietor}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The net value of his estate was £2,222,471. He bequeathed £5,000 to the Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead, for which he previously helped finance a new church building completed in 1923.{{cite news|title=Wills – Sir Edward Hulton, Bart.|url=http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/11th-july-1925/32/wills|access-date=31 August 2013|newspaper=The Tablet|date=11 July 1925|quote=Sir Edward Hulton, Bart., who died on May 23, left property valued at £2,222,471. Among his bequests he leaves £5,000 to the church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead.}}{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.leatherheadcatholics.org.uk/History.shtml|publisher=Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead|access-date=1 September 2013}}