Empire Crusader

Dennis Griffiths

Chapter 14 in Plant Here The Standard, 1996, pp 210-221 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1923, Sir Edward Hulton — he had been created a baronet two years earlier for services during the war — was considering selling his newspapers. He had been dogged by ill-health for more than twenty years, and all his life had been ‘tormented by the Victorian, Puritan urge to get up early and work hard, and always be doing something “useful”. He was a conscientious worker to an almost pathetic degree, being ... too suspicious to delegate’.1 It now seemed that this desire for always working and constant action had finally proved to be too much. Many years later, Hannen Swaffer wrote of meeting him at Ascot and offering congratulations on his improved appearance: ‘You are wrong,’ replied Hulton, ‘I am dying and I am the most miserable man on earth.’2

Keywords: Evening Standard; Evening News; Company Secretary; Daily Mail; Unionist Party (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12461-9_14

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