Group    From 1827 

Evening Standard

Founded as The Standard it was first printed at 5 New Bridge Street, Blackfriars.

May 2024: Londonist reported: "Evening Standard To End Its Daily Newspaper ... the Standard's new-look weekly will launch later this year."

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Evening Standard

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8 - Cheshire Court – the Standard

Cheshire Court The Standard Monday May 21, 1827 {A facsimile of a page of the...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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People of London - St Paul's

Cut from a single block of Irish limestone. The quote was used by Churchill b...

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Storm Tree - Charing Cross

When we first saw the plaque it was in the pavement close to the tree but is ...

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George Holyoake

George Holyoake

Radical journalist, secularist and promoter of the Co-operative Movement. Born Birmingham as George Jacob Holyoake. He coined the term "secularism" in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secul...

Person, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Henry Mayhew

Henry Mayhew

Social researcher and journalist.  Born London.  Joint founding editor with Mark Lemon, of the magazine 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour and the London Poor'. Born into a wealthy London family,...

Person, Journalism / Publishing

1 memorial
Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Sri Lanka

4 memorials
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount

William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount

Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family.  Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts.  On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA

1 memorial