Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh ( 1821,

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''. Sleigh founded ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 1855 to air a personal grievance against Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, but its first issue was not a success and Sleigh was soon forced to sell the paper to his publisher, Joseph Moses Levy. He was the promoter of the British Columbia Overland Transit Company.

Works

Sleigh was the author of: * The Outcast Prophet (1847) * Pine Forests and Hackmatack Clearings (1853)For reviews of this book see: The Athenaeum, No 1380, 8 April 1854
p 429
"Contemporary Literature" (1853) 34 Bentley's Miscellan
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"Literary Notices" (1854) 4 Sharpe's London Magazine (New Series
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and "Short Notices" (1854) 1 The Ramble
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There is a review in ''The Daily News''.

Notes and references

*P B Waite. "Sleigh, Burrows Wilcocks Arthur". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto Press. Toronto and Buffalo. 1976. Volume 9. Page
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and 724. *Norah Story. "Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh". The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. Toronto. London. New York. 1967. Reprinted with corrections. 1968
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*Frederic Boase. "Sleigh, Burrowes Willcocks Arthur". Modern English Biography. 1901
Volume 3
Column 604. *"B. W. A. Sleigh: Introduction by P. B. Waite" (1962
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The Dalhousie Review 55 *"Lieut.-Col. B. W. A. Sleigh" (1869) 1 The Register and Magazine of Biograph
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to 472 *Brian Tennyson. "1853: B W A Sleigh". Impressions of Cape Breton. Cape Breton University Press. 1986
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*Dennis Griffiths. "Colonel Sleigh and The Telegraph"
Fleet Street: Five Hundred Years of the Press
British Library. 2006. Page 94 et seq. *Frances Elma Gillespie
Labor and Politics in England. 1850-1867
Octagon Books. 1966. Page 124. *Goodday v Sleigh (1854) 24 Law Times Report
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*In re BWA Sleigh (1857) 2 Solicitors' Journal & Reporte
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