24 Facts About Alfred Harmsworth

Alfred Harmsworth directed a mission to the new ally, the United States, during 1917, and was director of enemy propaganda during 1918.

Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press employed writers such as Arthur Mee and John Hammerton, and its subsidiary, the Educational Book Company, published The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopædia, and Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia.

Alfred Harmsworth had an intuitive sense for what the reading public wanted to buy, and began a series of cheap but successful periodicals, such as Comic Cuts and the journal Forget-Me-Not for women.

Alfred Harmsworth bought several failing newspapers and made them into an enormously profitable news group, primarily by appealing to the general public.

Alfred Harmsworth began with The Evening News during 1894, and then merged two Edinburgh papers to form the Edinburgh Daily Record.

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Alfred Harmsworth then transformed a Sunday newspaper, the Weekly Dispatch, into the Sunday Dispatch, then the greatest circulation Sunday newspaper in Britain.

Alfred Harmsworth initiated the Harmsworth Magazine, utilizing one of Britain's best editors, Beckles Willson, who had been editor of many successful publications, including The Graphic.

Alfred Harmsworth initiated The Daily Mirror during 1903, and rescued the financially desperate Observer and The Times during 1905 and 1908, respectively.

Alfred Harmsworth brought his younger brothers into his media empire, and they all flourished: Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Cecil Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth, Sir Leicester Harmsworth, 1st Baronet and Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet.

Alfred Harmsworth was created a Baronet, of Elmwood, in the parish of St Peters in the County of Kent in 1904.

In 1905, Alfred Harmsworth was raised to the peerage as Baron Northcliffe, of the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent.

In 1918, Alfred Harmsworth was created Viscount Northcliffe, of St Peter's in the County of Kent, for his service as the director of the British war mission in the United States.

The first, Alfred Benjamin Smith, was born when Harmsworth was seventeen years old; the mother was a sixteen-year-old maidservant in his parents' home.

Alfred Harmsworth was monolingual and not well-educated and knew little history or science.

Alfred Harmsworth had a lust for power and for money, while leaving the accounting paperwork to his brother Harold.

Alfred Harmsworth imagined himself Napoleon reborn and resembled the emperor physically and in terms of his enormous energy and ambition.

In 1903 Alfred Harmsworth initiated the Alfred Harmsworth Cup, the first international award for motorboat racing.

Alfred Harmsworth was a friend of Claude Johnson, chief executive of Rolls-Royce Limited, and during the years preceding the First World war became an enthusiast of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost car.

Alfred Harmsworth's mental health collapsed; he acted like a madman but historians say it was a physical malady.

Alfred Harmsworth went on a world tour to revive himself, but it failed to do so.

Alfred Harmsworth died of endocarditis in his London house, No 1 Carlton House Gardens, on 14 August 1922.

Alfred Harmsworth left three months' pay to each of his six thousand employees.

Alfred Harmsworth's body was buried at East Finchley Cemetery in North London.

Alfred Harmsworth aspired to power instead of influence, and as a result forfeited both.