1. Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet was a British publisher and editor and a founding figure in popular journalism.
19 Facts About George Newnes
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George Newnes's father, Thomas Mold Newnes, was a Congregational church minister at the Glenorchy Chapel, Matlock.
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George Newnes was born in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, and educated at Silcoates School and then at Shireland Hall, Warwickshire, and the City of London School.
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George Newnes funded the magazine by opening a vegetarian restaurant in Manchester.
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The addition of competitions increased the readership of the periodical, and in 1884 George Newnes moved publication to London.
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George Newnes began to work with W T Stead, with whom he founded the Review of Reviews in 1890.
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George Newnes founded other magazine titles, including The Wide World Magazine, The Westminster Gazette, and Country Life.
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Politically, George Newnes was Liberal, and in 1885 he was elected as Member of Parliament for the newly created constituency of Eastern Cambridgeshire or Newmarket.
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George Newnes held the seat for ten years, before his defeat by the Conservative millionaire horse-breeder, Harry McCalmont in 1895.
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George Newnes re-entered the Commons in 1900 as MP for Swansea, and held the seat until he retired at the January 1910 general election.
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George Newnes built a large home called Hollerday House in Lynton, North Devon.
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George Newnes played a major part in the development of the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth.
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George Newnes provided a silver cup for the George Newnes Trophy series of chess matches between Great Britain and the United States, conducted over transatlantic cable from 1896 to 1911.
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George Newnes was chairman of the board of directors of Commonwealth Oil Corporation, and the abandoned oil shale mining site of Newnes, in Australia, was named after him.
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Sir George Newnes died at his Lynton home in June 1910 aged 59, having suffered ill health from diabetes for some time.
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George Newnes was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Frank Newnes, who had served as MP for Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire from 1906 to 1910.
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George Newnes was reconstructed in 1897 with a capital of 1,000,000 pounds, and began the publication of books.
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In 1896 George Newnes founded the book series, The Penny Library of Famous Books.
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Today, books under the George Newnes imprint continue to be published by Elsevier.