Page 31 - GB Parliamentary and Other Stories
P. 31
Alfred Harmswortb, Baron Northcliffe (1865-1922), later Viscount Northcliffe
Newspaper and publishing magnate, and political activist
Qlfiltliitcftinrs Qllnb.
To EDWARD CLODD,
·s. Princes Street, E.C.
Enclosed please find cheque for Two Guineas, my subscription
as Town Member of the Whitefriars Club for the year ending
December 31st, 1908.
Signed
TOWN.
Baron Northcliffe's subscription to the Whitefriars Club in London as a Town Member for the year 1908.
During his lifetime, he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion, and was an early pioneer of tabloid
journalism. David Lloyd George offered Northcliffe a post in his Cabinet, put he declined and was appointed
Director for Propaganda.
Such was Northcliffe's influence on propaganda over the Germans in the Great War that German battleships were sent
to shell his house in an attempt to kill him. His former residence still bears a shell hole in respect of his gardener's wife.
who was killed in the attack.
=
