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Henry Lascelles Carr (1841 – 5 October 1902), known as Lascelles Carr, was a British newspaper proprietor and businessman. Born in Yorkshire, Carr relocated to South Wales where he became a journalist. Carr became editor of the '' Western Mail'' and later its owner, before buying the London-based ''
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''. Carr was also the Chairman of the Cardiff-based Royal Hotel Company and was a city councillor.


Career

Carr was born in the town of Knottingley, Yorkshire in 1841 a son of Reverend James B. Carr, a Wesleyan minister. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath, and as an adult trained firstly as an accountant before spending a single year at Richmond College where he served as the editor of the college magazine. From Richmond he entered St Aidan's Anglican training College, but upon graduating Carr decided to follow a path as a journalist rather than entering the priesthood. He then worked for a few years as a journalist for the '' Liverpool Daily Post''. By 1869 Carr was living in Wales, and when
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founded the ''Western Mail'' in Cardiff that year, he made Carr its first sub-editor. The 1871 Census records Carr as living in Roath while married to Mary Ann Carr, who had been born in
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, Ireland; they had a single child, Loftus Lascelles, a son aged six, who had been born in Dublin. In 1877 Lord Bute sold the ''Western Mail'' to Carr and Daniel Owen. By 1881, Carr had remarried, to Helen sister of Sir
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, and the 1881 Census records that they had three daughters. In 1884, Carr and Owen formed the Daniel Owen and Co. Ltd as a joint stock company. As well as his work in the press, Carr served as a town councillor of Cardiff (for the West ward) and as a Justice of the Peace. In 1891 Carr, as part of a syndicate, bought the London Sunday paper, ''
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'' and placed his nephew
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as its editor. Emsley would later marry Carr's eldest daughter, Jenny. Around this period Carr branched into the hotel business, becoming Chairman of the Royal Hotel Company, which owned the Royal Hotel on St Mary's Street in the centre of Cardiff. On the night of Saturday 3 June 1893 the premises of the ''Western Mail'' burnt to the ground, but Carr managed to set up and office and printing presses overnight in nearby
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, which allowed the paper to report its own fire in the Monday morning edition. Ill health caused Carr to retire as editor of the ''Western Mail'' in 1901. He died on 5 October 1902 aged 62 while staying in Hyères in the south of France.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Henry Lascelles 1841 births 1902 deaths People educated at Kingswood School, Bath British newspaper publishers (people) Journalists from Cardiff People from Knottingley Councillors in Cardiff 19th-century British businesspeople