Henry William Massingham

Henry William Massingham
Born (1860-05-25)25 May 1860
Died 27 August 1924(1924-08-27) (aged 64)
Occupation Journalist

Henry William Massingham (25 May 1860 - 27 August 1924) was an English journalist, editor of The Nation from 1907 to 1923.[1] In his time it was considered the leading British Radical weekly.[2]

Life

He became editor of London paper The Star in 1890, though being replaced by Ernest Parke in 1891.[3] In 1888 as deputy editor to T. P. O'Connor[4] he had given George Bernard Shaw his break in journalism, appointing him deputy drama critic to Belfort Bax.[5]

He edited the Daily Chronicle 1897-9, but in November 1899 was forced out because his editorial line on the Second Boer War was hostile to the government.[6]

His departure from The Nation was a matter of party politics: he had broken from the Liberals under David Lloyd George, in favour of the Labour Party. A change of ownership was putting control in the hands of John Maynard Keynes, a Liberal. Massingham during the short remainder of his life was a columnist, in the Christian Science Monitor and The Spectator.[7]

Family

Massingham married Emma Jane Snowdon by whom he had his family. After her death he married her sister Ellen Snowdon. They were two of the daughters of Henry Snowdon of St. Leonards Priory in Norwich.

Massingham was also the father of Dr. Richard Massingham who became well known for his direction of public information films at about the time of World War II. The writer Harold J. Massingham was another son, and the playwright and actress Dorothy Massingham was his daughter.

References

  1. ↑ "Magazine Data Page 219". Philsp.com. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Richard A. Rempel (editor), The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell (2003), p. 3.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Archived July 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Michael Holroyd, Bernard Shaw (1997 one-volume edition), p. 121.
  6. ↑ Alfred F. Havighurst, Britain in Transition: The Twentieth Century (1985), p. 9.
  7. ↑ "The Press: Massingham Laments". TIME.com. 22 October 1923. Retrieved 19 November 2014.

Further reading

Media offices
Preceded by
T. P. O'Connor		 Editor of The Star
1890–1891 		Succeeded by
Ernest Parke
Preceded by
Alfred Ewen Fletcher		 Editor of the Daily Chronicle
1895 – 1899 		Succeeded by
W. J. Fisher
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