
The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national
tabloid
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newspaper
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, founded in
Manchester
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in 1909 by
Sir Edward Hulton.
It was bought in 1920 by
Lord Rothermere
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's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to
William
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and
Gomer
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The ep ...
Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley).
It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928
[ Dennis Griffiths (ed.). ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 187] (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on ''