Pioneer of telegraphy and news reporting.
Born Kassel, Germany as Israel Josaphat. He set up a pigeon post service between Aachen and Brussels. Attracted by the establishment of the Dover-Calais telegraph service he came to London in 1851 and quickly set up a telegraph communications office in Royal Exchange. Initially the information transmitted was primarily stock prices. Converted to Christianity in 1845 and became a British citizen in 1857. Died Nice, France.
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Baron Paul Julius Reuter
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Paul Reuter bust
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Leonard Woolf
Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...
5 memorials
Reverend Canon John Erskine Clarke
Clergyman. He issued the first parish magazine and established several other religious publications. Responsible for founding churches, schools and hospitals in Battersea. Born in India to an offi...
Person, Education, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Religion, India, Scotland
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Arthur Mee
Author and journalist. Born at Stapleford, near Nottingham. He started his career working for a local newspaper. In 1908 he began working on a fortnightly magazine called 'The Children's Encyclopae...
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Arthur William Waterlow King, J.P.
From the London Fandom Wiki website we learn that Arthur William Waterlow King was born on 22 August 1861 and was the Chairman of Acton Urban District Council for one year in 1903-1904. He was a pu...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Law, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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