Pall Mall Gazette

"We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it-the Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born.

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The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London

London

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 on February 7, 1865. It was owned by George Murray Smith

George Murray Smith

George Murray Smith was the son of George Smith who with Alexander Elder started the Victorian publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co..The firm was extremely successful....
; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood

Frederick Greenwood

Frederick Greenwood , was an England journalist and man of letters.He was one of three brothers -- the others being James and Charles -- who all gained reputation as journalists....
. In 1921 The Globe merged into the Pall Mall Gazette, which itself was absorbed into the Evening Standard

Evening Standard

The Evening Standard is an United Kingdom tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England....
 in 1923.

The Pall Mall Gazette took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an England novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satire works, particularly Vanity Fair , a panoramic portrait of English society....
. Pall Mall

Pall Mall, London

Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, situated in London SW1 and parallel to The Mall , from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square....
 is a street in London where many Gentlemen's club

Gentlemen's club

A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for England upper class men in the eighteenth century, and popularised by English middle class men and women in the late nineteenth century....
s are located, hence Thackeray's description of his imaginary newspaper in his novel The History of Pendennis (1848–1850):

"We address ourselves to the higher circles of society: we care not to disown it-the Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen; its conductors speak to the classes in which they live and were born. The field-preacher has his journal, the radical free-thinker has his journal: why should the Gentlemen of England be unrepresented in the Press?

Under the ownership of George Smith from 1865 to 1880, with Frederick Greenwood as editor, the Pall Mall Gazette was a Conservative

Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
 newspaper. Greenwood resigned in 1880 when the paper came under new ownership who wished the paper to support the policies of the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
.

William Thomas Stead

William Thomas Stead

William Thomas Stead was an England journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational church minister.Early journalism...
's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as child prostitution; their campaign helped get the government to increase the age of consent from 12 to 16 in 1885.

Henry Cust

Henry Cust

Henry John Cockayne-Cust was an England journalist and poet, and a Member of Parliament for the Unionist Party , for Stamford 1890-1895, and for Bermondsey , 1900-1906....
, editor from 1892 to 1896, returned the paper to its Conservative beginnings.

A large number of well-known writers contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette over the years. George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
 gained his first job in journalism writing for the paper. Other contributors have included Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English language novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on politics, social, gender issues and conflicts of hi...
, Frederick Engels, Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
, Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
, Sir Spencer Walpole

Spencer Walpole

Sir Spencer Walpole was an England historian and civil servant.He came of the younger branch of the family of the famous Whig prime minister, Robert Walpole, being descended from his brother, the Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole....
, Arthur Patchett Martin

Arthur Patchett Martin

Arthur Patchett Martin , was an Australian writer.Martin was born in Kent, England, and moved with his family to Australia in December 1852. He matriculated at the University of Melbourne in 1868....
 and the once popular Jamaican-born writer E. S. Dallas.

The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to several times in Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, Deputy Lieutenant was a Scotland author most noted for his stories about the Detective fiction Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger....
's Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scotland-born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
 stories. Doyle was an ardent realist, constantly making references to Victorian popular society; Watson would often enter the home of Holmes to disturb him reading a copy of the Pall Mall Gazette.

The Pall Mall Gazette is referred to in HG Wells' The Time Machine

The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations....
. When the Time Traveler returns back to London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 he sees that day's copy of the Pall Mall Gazette and knows he is back at the original day he departed.

Owners and editors of the Pall Mall Gazette

• Owner: George Smith
  George Smith
  
  George Smith may refer to:...
  
• 1865-1880 Frederick Greenwood
  Frederick Greenwood
  
  Frederick Greenwood , was an England journalist and man of letters.He was one of three brothers -- the others being James and Charles -- who all gained reputation as journalists....
  
• Owner:
• 1880-1883 John Morley
  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
  
  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Order of Merit, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Liberal Party statesman, writer and newspaper editor....
  
• 1883-1889 William Thomas Stead
  William Thomas Stead
  
  William Thomas Stead was an England journalist. He was born in Darlington, the son of a Congregational church minister.Early journalism...
  
• 1890-1892 Edward Tyas Cook
  Edward Tyas Cook
  
  Sir Edward Tyas Cook , was an English journalist, biographer, and man of letters. He was born at Brighton and died at South Stoke, Goring.He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford....
  
• Owner: William Waldorf Astor
• 1892-1896 Henry Cust
  Henry Cust
  
  Henry John Cockayne-Cust was an England journalist and poet, and a Member of Parliament for the Unionist Party , for Stamford 1890-1895, and for Bermondsey , 1900-1906....
  
• 1896-1909 Douglas Straight
  Douglas Straight
  
  Sir Douglas Straight was an England lawyer, Member of Parliament, judge and journalist.Straight was born in London and was educated at Harrow School....
  
• 1900 - 1905 George Roland Halkett
• 1908/9-1912 Frederick James Higginbottom
• 1912-1915 James Louis Garvin
  James Louis Garvin
  
  For the basketball player, see James Garvin James Louis Garvin , was an influential British journalist, editor, and author....
  
• Owner: Cyril Arthur Pearson
  Cyril Arthur Pearson
  
  Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom newspaper Business magnate and publishing, most noted for founding the Daily Express....
  , from 1916 to 1923

See also

• List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
  List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
  
  This article is a list of newspapers in the United Kingdom....
  
• Eneas Sweetland Dallas
  Eneas Sweetland Dallas
  
  Eneas Sweetland Dallas was a Scottish journalist and author....
  

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