The ''Morning Star'' was a radical pro-peace London daily newspaper started by

Richard Cobden Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. As a you ...

and

John Bright John Bright (16 November 1811 – 27 March 1889) was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn La ...

in March 1856. It had substantial support from

Joseph Sturge Joseph Sturge (1793 – 14 May 1859) was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist. He founded the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (now Anti-Slavery International). He worked throughout his life in Radical political actions suppo ...

. The newspaper was edited by Samuel Lucas from 1859 until his death in 1865.Martin Hewitt, ''The Dawn of the Cheap Press in Victorian Britain'' He had a financial stake in the paper, and as an "active managing partner" he succeeded in recruiting the Irish politician, historian and novelist Justin McCarthy and novelist Edmund Yates as contributors. McCarthy succeeded Lucas as editor from 1865 until 1868. The final issue, with

John Morley John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially, a journalist in the North of England and then editor of the newly Liberal-leani ...

as editor, was on 13 October 1869. The Scottish novelist William Black briefly worked as a journalist on the paper in 1863–64.

Editors

:1856: William Haly :1857: John Hamilton and Henry Richard :1858: Baxter Langley :1859: Samuel Lucas :1865: Justin McCarthy :1869:

References

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