name: Francis W. Hirst
birth_date: 1873-06-10 00:00:00
death_date: 1953-02-22 00:00:00
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about: Francis Wrigley Hirst was a British journalist, writer and and Liberal politician. He was editor of The Economist magazine from 1907 to 1916. He was a classical liberal in ideology and defended Gladstonian orthodoxy even when it was largely out of date.