Morning Star (19th-century UK newspaper)

For the daily newspaper published in Britain since 1966 under that name (originally founded in 1930 as The Daily Worker), see Morning Star (UK newspaper).

The Morning Star was a radical pro-peace London daily newspaper started by Richard Cobden and John Bright in March 1856.

The newspaper was edited by Samuel Lucas from 1857 until his death in 1865. He had a financial stake in the paper, and as an "active managing partner" he succeeded in recruiting the Irish politician, historian and novelist Justin McCarthy and novelist Edmund Yates as contributors.^[1] McCarthy succeeded Lucas as editor from 1865 until 1868.

The Scottish novelist William Black briefly worked as a journalist on the paper in 1863–4.

Editors

1857: Samuel Lucas

1865: Justin McCarthy

1869: John Morley

References

1. ^ Taylor, H. J.; Spencer (2004), "Lucas, Samuel (1811–1865) (subscription required)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17139, retrieved 5 January 2008