Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh

Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh

Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh [Boase, F., "Modern English biography", 6 vols, 1892-1921] (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. [cite web | url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jtelegraph.htm | title=Daily Telegraph | accessdate=2007-12-21 | publisher=Spartacus Educational]

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