The sun., 1910-06-10
DEATHOF SIR GEORGE NEEEBS
r. BLiSHER AND MlG ZINE
OU Mr. PtSSES AWlI.
GO, Iis start h, PubllshIRE ''Tit-BIIs" II
Nnrs SuEEesiiOn lBoughi NumeTous
Publications. Turned "WestmlRsirr
taSrtte" lniS a IibeFal Paper.

IaSrIIe" IniS a IiberaI Paper.
.rrH cINs Bs,si'ss 20 rur sly.
HNnON. June . SIR George NaWnes
.er IT the WCEmHSsr 6dseiis and
i"r of TR-B'' and the Sroud and
f. ionor ~ the international chess
.Hy bearing his name. i dead tie
..f n""n 10 Tor several months Hs was
n IN 1851 He was member oi
o.. tment from Cambridgeshirs from
,- 20 iso5 aud sai for swansea Town
'..n ian until tho general election this
,.u Tie was made a baronet IN iSsj
George Nrwnes was best known
l'raIly - an editor and publisher. hut
u .G.s country was Al least ~ well known
a, o. sportsman who Tor twenty years
va- ioeplv Interested in international
,0.H' racing and who fifteen wears ago.
v."n created a baronet. was prepared 70
..ri ayer a boat TO race for the America :
yIn rad some slight notifications in the
challenge terms been agreed to
~.r George. son Of Congregational
rrstrr was born in Derbyahire in 1851
srt began wage earning a. a merchants
ri"r> IN Manchester There in 1875 he
uarrei Priscilla Hillyard. CleTgyman's :
daughter who. according 90 a story often
ri founded Der husbands fortune by
suggesting 20 him the val,s oG magazine
containing -tit-bits of news and fun >
With littl@ more capital than the idea
ls started a penny weckly TP-Ras in
'sSl writing most Of !, for a time. and soon
earned that there was a public hungry
'0- us; tho sort Of matter his wife had
..ESested There were soon eight exact
r .atons of Newness first publication
appealing for the pennies Of Englands
primary school graduates
Tn lSSi tho prosperous publisher was
,.-g'ad IN Parliament from the New.
market division ot CAmbrdgeshire a. a
LIBERAL and represented that division for
ION years. Al the same time he was
'Hsv founding oT buying papers and
magazines. daily weekly and monthly.
He founded the Re- itr Oi Rsrisrs In iNSa
md rhs Strand MdgnEiRe in 1891. having
inr contributor to the latter the author
81 sherlock Holmes He had a. asso-
Ct'-s az the time Of the NrdHdA big sue
.-ss NO men. HarmswOr'h (noW Lord
Nor'hcllhel and Pearson. and the three
finally working independently, Became
iHr most powerful publishers IN England
Nswne= founded or bought the Weaf-
Hsisr Gcrs'is. the Wide World. the
Trdnd M1gdFiRs, the Sunday Strand. the
'7p'liH, Frys Magazine. COuRiTV Lie.
EcrCCH the Ladies' Field, WomaR's Lie
md the Scholars OHH. he organized
, hook Publishing concern. the George
\'wnes Company. Ltd. and issued a
'sres of siXpennv novels He bought
'a' WCaWWstsT GGtsliS for peculiar
rrason. " ". AstOr bought the Poll
Val IGssf'C end overnight turned Il into
Tory organ. II had heen the only
'sening paper devoted tu the Liberal
iAy'y Newnes boughn the Weamiasf +.
took over the whole Liberal stat of the
Pen Non aud gave the Liberals an evening
"rgFn with the sRmr despatch which
marked their loss ~ one
\"wnes appears 10 have h@.n more
genious and liberal IN his cirrulaijno
-rh"ru~z than his American imrtatnrs
ON" ut h's first schemes - hoOm th.
Sfrdrc.s circulation was o. annutinc,a
that clue % the hiding place ~ IOl
rpvrTetgus would la found IN n YrqHd
SERIAL story m he made further
mdugs ten NJ tlut each. and when clues
m the story sseuau no IrdiCTte tina snns
~ tue gu'u Wa~ ii"u benegth IrT " lgar /
square The p.lc" were hard worked T.
Keep "yci'"d Strand readers from digging
nm tho little oii historic common
SIR Georges serond eIs-,f.pn 90 parIia- .
uent was from SUrusDa town ~ a Rad,-
81 IN lyDb lu iSgi h. w9- crsgts.i
htrOnet. and 70 was reported ~ the time
nat u was IN recognition ut that honor
That he proposed Ia bul ld cup chal-
-nger and try for the Americas = trophy
W. donated the International chess trophy
which hears his nanfp and hal been not
'HF active IN promoting international
.trheS IN chess, a game IN witch he
N.- "Nfert. His one surviving child
Tank ~ director in the Nrwnes Com
any Ltd and also manager ~ - Cyr-- /
III" and prominent IN golfing and
-n--nrIng sp0rts.