the Rangoon Times

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The Rangoon Times was an English-language weekly newspaper{{cite web | url = http://icon.crl.edu/detail.php?language=All&country=&title=&begindate=&sort=place&sortOrder=ASC&recCount=27633&item=-1&recIndex=2216 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121212165414/http://icon.crl.edu/detail.php?language=All&country=&title=&begindate=&sort=place&sortOrder=ASC&recCount=27633&item=-1&recIndex=2216 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 12 December 2012 | title = Record No: 2216 - The Rangoon times | publisher = ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers | date = March 16, 2010 }} published in Rangoon, Burma during British rule. It was published from 1854 until British expulsion of Rangoon in 1942. The newspaper was formerly named the Rangoon Chronicle, and was renamed to The Rangoon Times in 1858.{{cite book |title=Buddhism, Power and Political Order |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1134129478 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ue56vcBRnCsC&pg=PA69 |access-date=October 31, 2012|date= 2007-06-11}} In the Homeward Mail of 23 January 1909, the death of the then sole proprietor Mr Oswald Maurice O'Brien was announced.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001712/19090123/012/0006 |title=Subscription |access-date=2023-05-11 |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}} It was managed by George A. Brown, a Scotsman, from about 1915 to his death in 1940.{{cite news |title=Mr George A. Brown - Manager of the Rangoon Times |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=y0ZAAAAAIBAJ&pg=1734%2C6762972 |newspaper=The Glasgow Times |date=December 31, 1940 |access-date=November 4, 2012}} The Scottish author, critic and journalist Richard Curle took up the editorship in 1920.{{cite book|first=Frederick R.|last=Karl|author-link=Frederick R. Karl|title=Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|year=1979|url=https://archive.org/details/josephconradthre00karl/|page=843|isbn=9780374180140}}