Born San Francisco.
A self-made, extremely wealthy newspaper man. The model for Citizen Kane.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
William Randolph Hearst
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Eagle Squadrons
{On the front of the pillar, facing north, into the square, below a carved im...
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Olive Christian Malvery
Born in Lahore in the Punjab to parents of European and Indian ancestry, Thomas Barber Malvery and Jessie Anderson. She came to London in 1900 and trained as a singer at The Royal College of Music....
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Philanthropy, India
1 memorial
Lydia Becker
President of NUWSS prior to Millicent Fawcett and campaigned for voting rights of unmarried women and widows. Also an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. Best remembered for ...
1 memorial
Sir Arthur Pearson
Newspaper publisher and philanthropist. Born in Wookey, Somerset. In 1898 he founded the Daily Express, which was innovative in printing news instead of adverts on its front page. When he started t...
1 memorial
St Bride Foundation Institute
Established to meet the educational, cultural and social needs of a community working within the burgeoning print industry of the Victorian era.  The Londonphile has visited and photographed the in...
Group, Journalism / Publishing, Museums / Libraries, Theatre
1 memorial
Baron George Allardice Riddell
Newspaper proprietor, The News of the World in particular. Â Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road, in 1926 when he, together with George Eastman, and Sir Albert Levy, funded the cons...
2 memorials
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