The ''Empire News'' was a Sunday

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in the

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. The newspaper was founded in 1884 in

Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...

as ''The Umpire''. A penny newspaper, it was the first successful provincial Sunday newspaper in England. Owned by H. S. Jennings, the ''Umpire'' was subtitled "A Sporting, Athletic, Theatrical and General Newspaper", and focused on sports and theatre news.Andrew Davies and Steven Fielding, ''Workers' Worlds'', p.160 In 1894, it absorbed the former daily newspaper, the ''

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''.Joanne Shattock, ''The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', p.2908 In 1917,

Edward Hulton Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (3 March 1869 – 23 May 1925) was a British newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner. In 1921, he was awarded a baronetcy, of Downside in the parish of Leatherhead in Surrey, for public services ...

bought the paper and renamed it the ''Empire'', and shortly after, the ''Empire News''." Along with Hulton's other papers, the ''News'' was acquired by

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and then sold to

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, later becoming part of

Allied Northern Newspapers Allied Newspapers Ltd. was a British media consortium with holdings including such national newspapers as ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Times''. Formed in 1924 by the Welsh brothers William Berry, Lord Camrose, and Gomer Berry (later ...

and later

Kemsley Newspapers Allied Newspapers Ltd. was a British media consortium with holdings including such national newspapers as ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Times''. Formed in 1924 by the Welsh brothers William Berry, Lord Camrose, and Gomer Berry (later ...

. The paper was renamed the ''Sunday Empire News'' in 1944, but in 1950 became the ''Empire News and the Umpire'' and in 1953 was back to being the ''Empire News''. In 1955, the ''

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'' was merged with the ''Empire News'', and the paper's title became the ''Empire News and the Sunday Chronicle''.

Roy Thomson Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, (5 June 1894 – 4 August 1976) was a Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor who became one of the moguls of Fleet Street in London. He first came to prominence when he was selling radios in ...

bought the paper in 1959, but he merged it into the ''

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'' in 1960.

Editors

:1948: Terence Horsley :1949: George Grafton Green :1957: L Harton

References

{{Defunct UK newspapers, state=collapsed Newspapers published in Manchester Publications established in 1884 Publications disestablished in 1960 Defunct Sunday newspapers published in the United Kingdom