Leigh Dunlop Brownlee was a journalist who became editor of the Daily Mirror from 1931 to 1934.
10 Facts About Leigh Brownlee
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Leigh Brownlee played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and Somerset between 1901 and 1909.
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Leigh Brownlee was born at Bristol and died at Clifton, in Bristol.
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Leigh Brownlee had a better season for Gloucestershire too than he had had in 1903, with a highest score of 97, batting at No 9 in the match against Kent.
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Leigh Brownlee had a full season of first-class cricket in 1905, appearing in 16 matches for Gloucestershire, though he was not successful, scoring only 244 runs at an average of 10.16 and with a highest score of only 38.
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Leigh Brownlee did not play any further matches after 1909.
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Leigh Brownlee went into newspapers and he is picked out as one of the senior figures representing the Daily Mirror at the funeral of the newspaper's then editor, Alexander Kenealy in 1915.
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Leigh Brownlee was himself editor of the Daily Mirror from 1931 to 1934, though this was a difficult period for the newspaper, which had fallen significantly from its achievement of the first one million circulation in 1918 because of price cutting by rival newspapers.
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The Mirror was sold by Lord Northcliffe in the mid-1930s and Leigh Brownlee appears to have left then: the newspaper relaunched as an American-style tabloid after he left.
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Leigh Brownlee went into partnership in a news agency, but the partnership was dissolved in 1936.