(J.T. A. Mail Service)
The “Daily Telegraph” has been sold to the Berry Newspaper Group. An authorized statement to that effect has just been issued.
The “Daily Telegraph” has been published for seventy-two and a half years. Its first number came out on June 29th, 1855, during the Crimean War. It was founded by Colonel Sleigh, and was at first called the “Daily Telegraph and Courier”.
It did not pay in the first few months, and on September 1st, 1855, was taken over by J.M. Levy, head of the firm that did the printing. Mr. Levy reduced the title to the “Daily Telegraph”, and cut down the price of the paper from twopence to a penny, thus giving London its first penny morning newspaper.
Lord Burnham, the proprietor who has just sold, is the grandson of J. M. Levy, the real founder of the paper. J. M. Levy died in 1888, and control then passed to his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, who had assumed the name of Lawson in consideration of a deed of gift by an uncle, Mr. Levy-Lawson was created a baronet in 1892, and in 1903 was raised to the peerage with the title of Lord Burnham.
Lord Burnham, a famous Fleet Street figure, died in 1916, in his eighty-fourth year.
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