The Owl (magazine)

"The Owl: a Wednesday journal of politics and society" was a satirical society newspaper published in London from 1864 to 1870. Irregularly published, but sometimes fortnightly, it cost 6d., was Tory in politics and consisted of a mix of satire and London society gossip.

"The Owl" was founded by "Morning Post" editor Algernon Borthwick, together with Evelyn Ashley, Lord Wharncliffe (1827-99) and James Archibald Stuart-Wortley. [H. C. G. Matthew, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31973 ‘Borthwick, Algernon, Baron Glenesk (1830–1908)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Jan 2008]

The Conservative MP Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington was joint editor of the paper from 1864 to 1868. ["ODNB"] Contributors included the architect Arthur Ashpitel (1807-69), Disraeli's private secretary Montagu Corry, Laurence Oliphant, and Henry Drummond Wolff. ["ODNB"] They also included Mortimer Collins, ['Early Days of Mortimer Collins', "Dublin University Magazine", 90 (1877), p. 340ff] Lord Houghton, Ralph Bernal Osborne, George Otto Trevelyan, and Thomas Gibson Bowles. [Reginald Lucas, 'Borthwick, Sir Algernon, first Baron Glenesk (1830–1908)', "Dictionary of National Biography", 1912. ]

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