James Louis Garvin
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James Louis Garvin (12 April 1868 - 23 January 1947), born in Birkenhead began his career working for Joseph Cowen on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle 1889-99, latterly as a leader-writer. Cowen was his mentor and father-figure.
In London from 1899, Garvin began work on the Daily Telegraph but it was as editor of the Observer 1908-42 that he became one of the most well-known and influential journalists in the country. He revolutionised Sunday newspapers and moved in the highest political circles. A formidably industrious polymath, Garvin wrote a number of books on economic policy and foreign affairs. Garvin also wrote for the Sunday Express and was editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica (1926-1932).
In 1919 Garvin wrote an editorial in The Observer on the Treaty of Versailles saying "The Treaty left the Germans 'no real hope except in revenge'".[1]
He was also a member of the Coefficients dining club of social reformers set up in 1902 by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
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| Preceded by Frederick Higginbottom |
Editor of The Pall Mall Gazette 1912 - 1915 |
Succeeded by unknown |
| Preceded by Austin Harrison |
Editor of The Observer 1908 - 1942 |
Succeeded by Ivor Brown |
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