About: Alfred Harmsworth (1865-1922)

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The family moved to London in 1867, and Harmsworth was working as a journalist from his mid-teens. In 1887 he went into business as a publisher, with magazines like Answers to Correspondents, Marvel and Home Sweet Home. He launched the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and for a time was the proprietor of the Observer and The Times.

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rdfs:label	Alfred Harmsworth (1865-1922)
rdfs:comment	The family moved to London in 1867, and Harmsworth was working as a journalist from his mid-teens. In 1887 he went into business as a publisher, with magazines like Answers to Correspondents, Marvel and Home Sweet Home. He launched the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and for a time was the proprietor of the Observer and The Times.
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abstract	The family moved to London in 1867, and Harmsworth was working as a journalist from his mid-teens. In 1887 he went into business as a publisher, with magazines like Answers to Correspondents, Marvel and Home Sweet Home. He launched the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and for a time was the proprietor of the Observer and The Times. His first comic papers were Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips, both launched in 1890 and aimed primarily at adults. The Funny Wonder followed in 1893. In 1901 he gathered all his publishing ventures under one banner, the Amalgamated Press, which went on to become not only the largest publisher of newspapers and magazines in the UK, but also one of the two leading publishers of comics and story papers, the other being Dundee's DC Thomson & Co. Based at Fleetway House in Farringdon Street, London, the AP later became known as Fleetway Publications, and was one of the companies that merged in 1963 to form IPC. Everything from Radio Fun, Buster and Whizzer and Chips, to Tiny Tots, Tiger Tim's Weekly and Jack and Jill, to School Friend, Girl's Crystal and Tammy, to Roy of the Rovers, Valiant and 2000AD, came out of Harmsworth's company. Harmsworth's newspapers were extremely politically influential, although careful to remain independent of party politics, and he was made a Baronet in 1904, a Baron the following year, and a Viscount in 1918. He died in London on 14 August 1922 at the age of 57, suffering from syphilis and a nervous breakdown. He had expressed a wish to be buried close to his mother, who in fact outlived him by three years.

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