CARR, HENRY LASCELLES (1841 - 1902), journalist and newspaper proprietor
Date of birth: 1841
Date of death: 1902
Parent: James B. Carr
Gender: Male
Occupation: journalist and newspaper proprietor
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Printing and Publishing
Author: Owen Picton Davies
Born at Knottingley, Yorkshire, son of the Rev. James B. Carr, a Wesleyan minister who was stationed for a period at Barry, Glamorganshire. He was educated at S. Aidan's Theological College, Birkenhead, but after concluding his college course he abandoned the pulpit for the press.
After some years at the Daily Post office in Liverpool he became a sub-editor on the Western Mail, Cardiff (in the first year of its publication, 1869), then manager, and afterwards editor and partproprietor, until ill health compelled him to retire in 1901.
He took part in the public life of Cardiff, as town councillor and J.P. He wrote a number of books, including one on the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. He died 5 October 1902.
Author
- Owen Picton Davies, (1882 - 1970)
- Western Mail, 7 October 1902, 1 May 1919
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Henry Lascelles Carr
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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