Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (29 November 1906 – 8 October 1988) was a British magazine publisher and writer.
Early life
Hulton was born to
Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet, a newspaper publisher and racehorse owner originally from Manchester, and his second wife,
music hall
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artist, actress and singer Millicent Warris, born
Fanny Elizabeth Warriss or Wariss, also known by the stage name Millie Lindon.
[ Educated at ]Harrow School
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, Hulton went up to Brasenose College, Oxford
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, in 1925 but left in December 1926 without a degree.[
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Business and politics
Hulton founded the Hulton Press in 1937, buying '' Farmers' Weekly''. The Hulton Press went on to publish '' Leader Magazine'', '' Lilliput'' and the ''Picture Post
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'', as well as the children's comics ''Eagle
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'', ''Girl
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'', '' Robin'', and ''Swift
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During ]World War II
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, Hulton was one of the members of the 1941 Committee
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, a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence not generally involved with a political party but who came together in 1941 to press for more efficient production to enhance the war effort. Hulton helped fund the Home Guard
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training school at Osterley Park
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, organising a private supply of weapons from the United States. Though he had stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate at Leek
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in 1929
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, his 1943 book ''The New Age'' supported a mixed welfare-state economy and he welcomed Attlee's 1945 government.[
Hulton discontinued the ''Picture Post'' in 1957 and sold the Hulton Press to Odhams two years later. He was ]knight
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ed for services to journalism in 1957.[
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Hulton photographic archive
The photographic archive of ''Picture Post'' became an important historical documentary resource. It was set up by Hulton as a semi-independent operation, officially incorporated as the Hulton Press Library in 1947. It was bought by the BBC in 1958 and incorporated into the ''Radio Times'' photo archive, which was then sold to Brian Deutsch in 1988. In 1996 the Hulton Picture Collection was bought for £8.6m by Getty Images
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, who has retained the Hulton Archive as a featured resource within its large holdings.
Publications
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Personal life
Hulton was married twice, first to Kira Goudime-Levkovitsch in 1927, and then later in 1946 to Princess Nika Yourievitch. Together Yourievitch and Hulton had two sons and one daughter.
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1906 births
1988 deaths
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