Person    | Male  Born 28/3/1820  Died 11/2/1907

Sir William Howard Russell

Categories: Journalism / Publishing

Countries: Ireland

War correspondent. Born near Dublin. 1841 began in journalism, came to London, studied for the bar and became attached to The Times. As a war reporter he covered: the Crimean War, the Indian Rebellion, the American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War. HIs reports from the Crimea were widely read and influential. Knighted in 1895. Died at his home, 202 Cromwell Road.

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Sir William Howard Russell

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Mary Seacole statue

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Hogarth Press

Hogarth Press

Publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It grew from a hobby to become a business, publishing the works of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and books on psychoanalysis and foreig...

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Sir Horace B. Marshall (Junior)

Sir Horace B. Marshall (Junior)

Publisher and newspaper distributor and Lord Mayor of London, 1918–1919.  Born Streatham, son of Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, whose business he joined.  His daughter married J. Arthur Rank.   Searc...

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Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Author and journalist. Born in Louisville, Kentucky. Best known for writing 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and at his funeral, his ashes ...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, USA

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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

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