The Morning Star (19th century U.K. newspaper)
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For the daily newspaper published in Britain since 1966 under that name (originally founded in 1930 as The Daily Worker), see The Morning Star.
The Morning Star was a radical pro-peace London daily newspaper started by Richard Cobden and John Bright in March 1856.
From the summer of 1857 until his death, Samuel Lucas (1811-1865) served as editor of the Morning Star. As an ‘active managing partner’, with a financial stake in the paper, he was successful at bringing in Irish politician, historian and novelist Justin McCarthy, and Edmund Yates, as contributors.[1]
McCarthy succeeded Lucas as editor between 1865 and 1868.
The Scottish novelist William Black briefly worked as a journalist on the paper in 1863/4.
[edit] References
- ^ Miles Taylor and H. J. Spencer, ‘Lucas, Samuel (1811–1865)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 Jan 2008
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