Observer
Observer,a Sunday paper founded in 1791 by W. S. Bourne , and now Britain's oldest national Sunday paper. In 1814 it passed into the control of William Innell Clement ( 1770 – 1852 ), a powerful newspaper proprietor, under whose charge it flourished, partly through its pioneering use of woodcut illustrations to report sensational incidents (e.g. notably, the Cato Street conspiracy in 1820 ). It declined after Clement's death, reviving in the last decades of the century with Julius Beer ( 1837 – 80 ) as proprietor and Edward Dicey ( 1832 – 1911 ) as editor. It was bought by Harmsworth in 1905 , and edited from 1905 to 1908 by Austin Harrison ( 1873 – 1928 ), then from 1908 to 1942 by James Louis Garvin ( 1868 – 1947 ), who impressed his own personality and professional judgement deeply on the paper during his lengthy period as editor. The paper was bought in 1911 by William...
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