Harmsworth, Harold, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940). Newspaper proprietor. Younger brother of Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, Harold eschewed the public limelight enjoyed by Alfred, but in 1917 accepted Lloyd George's invitation to take charge of the Air Ministry. Meanwhile he had increased the scope of his own newspaper proprietorship, producing the Sunday Pictorial, London's first Sunday picture newspaper, in 1915. Created baron (1914), he was advanced to viscount (1918). On his brother's death in 1922 Harold assumed control of Associated Newspapers, and used this opportunity to write forceful articles for the Daily Mail in praise of Hitler and Mussolini.
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Rothermere, Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount (rŏTH'ərmēr), 1868-1940, English publisher. He was the financial wizard of the publishing firm headed by his brother Alfred, Viscount Northcliffe. In 1915 he founded the Sunday Pictorial and after his brother's death in 1922 gained control of the vast newspaper empire. He was created viscount in 1919. Though long friendly to Fascism and a proponent of appeasement in 1938, he wholeheartedly supported the British cause in World War II.
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British newspaper publisher who founded the Daily Mail (1896) and the Daily Mirror (1903).
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British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)
Synonyms: Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
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1st Viscount Rothermere.
Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth.[1] He had already been created a Baronet, of Horsey in the County of Norfolk, on 14 July 1910,[2] and Baron Rothermere, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, in 1914.[3] Every holder of the titles has served as Chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. As of 2009 the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1998.
The first Viscount Rothermere was the younger brother of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and the elder brother of Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet, and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet.
Viscounts Rothermere (1919)
- Harold Sydney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940)
- Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (1898–1978)
- Vere Harold Esmond Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere (1925–1998)
- Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere (b. 1967)
The Heir Apparent is the present holder's son the the Hon. Richard Jonathan Harold Vere Harmsworth (b. 1994)
See also
- Viscount Northcliffe
- Baron Harmsworth
- Harmsworth Baronets, of Moray Lodge, and Harmsworth Baronets, of Freshwater Grove
References
- ^ London Gazette: no. 31427, p. 8221, 1 July 1919. Retrieved on 2008-12-13.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 28400, p. 5392, 26 July 1910. Retrieved on 2008-12-13.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 28797, p. 810, 30 January 1914. Retrieved on 2008-12-13.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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