Capt Harry Waldo Yoxall

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

MC JP (4 June 1896 – 5 May 1984) was a British publisher, chairman of

Condé Nast Condé Nast () is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Nast (businessman), Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications. Its headquarters are located at One World Trade Center in the FiDi, Financial Dis ...

and founder of British ''Vogue''.

Life

Harry Yoxall was the son of

James Yoxall Sir James Henry Yoxall (15 July 1857 – 2 February 1925) was a British Liberal Party politician and trade unionist. He was the member of parliament (MP) for Nottingham West from 1895 to 1918. He was General Secretary of the National Union of ...

, Liberal MP for Nottingham West. He was educated at St Paul's School and

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. He saw active service in the First World War on the Western Front as a junior officer in the 18th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (41st Division) from May 1916 up to the attack at Flers during the Somme offensive in September 1916; in various staff appointments in the Division and its component infantry brigades, mainly in the Ypres Salient, from October 1916-July 1917; including preparations for the Battles of Messines Ridge and 3rd Ypres; as adjutant to the 18th KRRC during their heavy involvement in 3rd Ypres August–September 1917; and as an instructor in trench mortars with the British Military Mission to the United States November 1917-April 1918. Yoxall joined Condé Nast Publications in 1921. Appointed managing director of Condé Nast in 1934, he was chairman from 1957 to 1964. Yoxall started the English edition of ''

Vogue Vogue may refer to: Business * ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine ** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine ** '' Vogue Adria'', a fashion magazine for former Yugoslav countries ** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine ** ' ...

''. He was described as an "imaginative gourmet", and a "great

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connoisseur".

Works

* ''Modern Love'', 1927 * ''All Abroad'', 1928 * ''A Respectable Man'', 1935 * ''Journey into Faith'', 1963 * ''Forty Years in Management'', 1964 * ''A Fashion of Life'', New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1966. * ''The Wines of Burgundy'', 1968, rev. edn 1978 * ''Retirement a Pleasure'', 1971 * ''The Enjoyment of Wine'', 1972

References

1896 births 1984 deaths British magazine publishers (people) English publishers (people) People educated at St Paul's School, London 20th-century English businesspeople Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{publish-bio-stub