Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh

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Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh[1] (1821, Montreal-1869, Chelsea) was an army officer, travel writer and the original founder of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Sleigh founded The Daily Telegraph in 1855 to air a personal grievance against the Duke of Cambridge, but its first issue was not a success and Sleigh was soon forced to sell the paper to his publisher, Joseph Moses Levy.[2]

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921
  2. ^ "Daily Telegraph". Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jtelegraph.htm. Retrieved on 2007-12-21. 
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