The Sunday Referee was a Sunday newspaper

Newspaper

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 in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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The paper was founded in 1877 as The Referee, primarily covering sports news. In the 1930s, considerable money was invested in an attempt to compete with the leading Sunday newspapers, and circulation reached 400,000, but in 1939 it was merged with the Sunday Chronicle

Sunday Chronicle

The Sunday Chronicle was a newspaper in the United Kingdom.The newspaper was founded in Manchester by Edward Hulton in August 1885. He was known for his sporting coverage, already publishing the Sporting Chronicle, the Daily Dispatch and the Athletic News. The paper initially cost one penny and,...

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

 contributed several early poems to the newspaper.

Editors

1877: Henry Sampson

Henry Sampson (newspaper proprietor)

Henry Sampson was an English newspaper proprietor and editor.Sampson was the son of a journalist. At the age of twelve he entered a printing office in London, and became successively a compositor and proof-reader...

1891: Richard Butler

Richard Butler (author)

Richard William Butler was a British dramatist and editor of The Referee magazine in the late Victorian period.He shared a joint pen name, Richard Henry, with Henry Chance Newton...

1922: Robert Donald

Robert Donald

Sir Robert Donald was a British newspaper editor.Working as a clerk, Donald submitted free articles to a local journal, then gained employment at the Edinburgh Evening News. He also worked on The Courant and the Northampton Echo before becoming a freelancer. In 1888, he joined The Star, a new...

1924: A. Laber

1932: Mark Goulden

Mark Goulden

Mark Goulden was a British journalist and publisher. He began his career as a reporter for several newspapers and periodicals. Chairman of the British publishing firm of W.H. Allen and Co. for thirty-six years, he received numerous citations and awards for his work in humanitarian causes. He was...

1936: R. J. Minney

Source: David Butler and Jennie Freeman, British Political Facts, 1900-1960