John A. Willox
Sir John Archibald Willox (9 June 1842 – 9 June 1905) was a British journalist, newspaper owner and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician from Liverpool. He rose through the ranks to become the owner of the ''Liverpool Courier'' newspaper and sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1892 to 1905. Early life Willox was born in Edinburgh, the son of the journalist John Willox who also wrote several books related to shipping. His family moved to Liverpool, where he was educated at Liverpool College. Career Leaving school in his mid-teens, Willox was apprenticed to the journalists Lee and Nightingale. They seconded him to the ''Liverpool Courier'', which was then published twice each week. He became a sub-editor, then a partner in Tinling & Co which owned the paper. By 1863, aged only 21, he was the editor. Under Willox's editorship, the paper promptly became a daily newspaper, daily, with a Saturday '' Weekly Courier''. The '' ...
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The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Wednesday, July 6, 1892; Issue 8515
''The Pall Mall Gazette'' was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood. In 1921, '' The Globe'' merged into ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', which itself was absorbed into ''The Evening Standard'' in 1923. Beginning late in 1868, at least through the 1880s, a selection or digest of its contents was published as the weekly ''Pall Mall Budget''. History ''The Pall Mall Gazette'' took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by W. M. Thackeray. Pall Mall is a street in London where many gentlemen's clubs are located, hence Thackeray's description of this imaginary newspaper in his novel ''The History of Pendennis'' (1848–1850): We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it—''The Pall Mall Gazette'' is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born. The field-preacher has his journal, the radical free-think ...
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