The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. It was the first newspaper to employ a salaried woman journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton ; for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew that were collected and published in book format in 1851 as London Labour and the London Poor ; and for publishing other major writers, such as John Stuart Mill .
24-531: Charles (or Charlie ) Mackay , McKay , or MacKay may refer to: Charles Mackay (author) (1814–1889), Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter Charles McKay (1855–1883), American naturalist and explorer Charles Mackay (mayor) (1875–1929), New Zealand lawyer, local politician, and Mayor of Wanganui Charlie MacKay (1880–1953), Australian rules footballer and physician Charles Reay Mackay , Australian immunologist, fellow of
48-499: A historical romance titled Longbeard , about the medieval rebel William Fitz Osbert . He is also remembered for his Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and the later Dictionary of Lowland Scotch in which he presented his "fanciful conjectures" that "thousands of English words go back to Scottish Gaelic ". The linguist Anatoly Liberman has described MacKay as an "etymological monomaniac" commenting that "He
72-744: A book in 1885 on the Founding Fathers of the United States titled The Founders of the American Republic: A History and Biography that included profiles on George Washington , John Adams , Thomas Jefferson , Benjamin Franklin , and James Madison . Attributions The Morning Chronicle The newspaper published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication. From 28 June 1769 to March 1789 it
96-714: A correspondent for The Times , in which he was the first to publish the news of the Fenian conspiracy . Mackay had the degree of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1846. He was a member of the Percy Society . He died in London. TELL me, ye wingéd winds, That round my pathway roar, Do ye not know some spot Where mortals weep no more? Some lone and pleasant dell, Some valley in
120-605: A dangerous connotation in the aftermath of the French Revolution . From 1801 the former United Irishman Peter Finnerty combined reporting for the Chronicle on Parliament with active participation in the election campaigns of Sir Francis Burdett (1802 and 1804); Richard Brinsley Sheridan , the Irish playwright and satirist (1807); and the abolitionist and proponent of minimum wages, Samuel Whitbread (1811). As
144-550: A war correspondent in 1809 he reported on the disasters of the Walcheren Campaign , laying blame at the feet of Lord Castlereagh . 1811 Castlereagh succeeded in having him imprisoned for libel. In 1809, David Ricardo , then a successful banker and friend of Perry's, anonymously published an article in the Morning Chronicle titled "The Price of Gold". It was Ricardo's first published work, and decried
168-519: A while, and sighed to answer, – “No.” From the "Tell me, ye winged winds" poem by Charles Mackay Mackay published Songs and Poems (1834), a History of London , The Thames and its Tributaries or, Rambles Among the Rivers (1840), Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841). Mackay wrote
192-552: The inflationary consequences of the Bank Restriction Act 1797 , advocating for a return to the gold standard . The publication of Ricardo's article started an extensive correspondence in the newspaper, and precipitated the creation of the Bullion Committee . William Hazlitt joined to report on Parliament in 1813, by which time several charges of libel and seditious libel had been levelled against
216-532: The Australian Academy of Science Charles R. MacKay, pseudonym for William Harral Johnson and William Stewart Ross used on Life of Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. (1888), a libelous attack on Charles Bradlaugh Charles MacKay (born 1950), American arts administrator [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
240-608: The autumn of 1844, he moved back to Scotland, and became editor of the Glasgow Argus , resigning in 1847. He worked for The Illustrated London News in 1848, becoming editor in 1852. Mackay visited North America in the 1850s, publishing his observations as Life and Liberty in America: or Sketches of a Tour of the United States and Canada in 1857–58 (1859). During the American Civil War he returned there as
264-533: The country, written by other journalists. Eliza Lynn Linton joined the newspaper in 1849 and, in doing so, became the UK's first salaried woman journalist on a daily newspaper. The Morning Chronicle was suspended with the 21 December 1862 issue and resumed with the 9 January 1864 issue. Then it was suspended again with the 10 January 1864 issue and again resumed with the 2 March 1865 issue. A series of letters, penned by Edward Gibbon Wakefield , actually in prison at
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#1732773036763288-488: The future opera manager Benjamin Lumley . Mackay was twice married—first, during his Glasgow editorship, to Rosa Henrietta Vale, by whom he had three sons and a daughter; and secondly to Mary Elizabeth Mills, who was likely a servant in the household previously. His first wife died on 28 December 1859, and his second wife in 1875. The novelist Marie Corelli was an illegitimate daughter, presumably conceived while her mother
312-607: The government, and in typical fashion Woodfall was convicted of libel and spent a year in Newgate prison in 1779; a similar fate also befell some of his successors. The Chronicle was bought by James Perry in 1789, bringing the journal firmly down on the Whig side against the Tory -owned London Gazette . Circulation increased, and by 1810, the typical sale was 7,000 copies. The content often came from journalists labelled as radicals ,
336-442: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Mackay&oldid=1212583931 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles Mackay (author) Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889)
360-525: The newspaper and its contributors at one time or another, Perry being sentenced to three months in gaol in 1798. Woodfall died in 1803. Perry was succeeded by John Black , probably in 1817 when Perry developed a severe illness. It was Black who later employed Dickens, Mayhew, and John Stuart Mill . William Innel(l) Clement (the owner of several titles) purchased the Morning Chronicle on the death of James Perry in 1821 for £42,000, raising most of
384-530: The purchase money by bills. The transaction involved him with Messrs. Hurst & Robinson, the publishers, and their bankruptcy in 1825 hit him very hard. After losing annually on the Morning Chronicle, Clement sold it to John Easthope in 1834 for £16,500. Charles Dickens began reporting for the Chronicle in 1834. It was in this medium that he also began publishing short stories under the pseudonym "Boz". The articles by Henry Mayhew were published in 1849, accompanied by similar articles about other regions of
408-564: The same year founded The Diary, or Woodfall's Register , which was the first to fully report on proceedings in Parliament as a regular feature. Since note-taking was prohibited, he worked from memory, at least to the extent of writing notes outside the chamber.) Woodfall's journalism slanted toward the Whig party in the House of Commons . Newspapers of the time were subject to persecution by
432-564: The time for the abduction of a minor but purporting to come from a gentleman settler in Sydney , New South Wales , were published in the Chronicle in 1829. Each was dubbed "A letter from Sydney". These outlined his theory of systematic colonisation, which were embraced with enthusiasm by Robert Gouger , widely promulgated after being published as a book, and later led to the British colonisation of South Australia . In Jules Verne 's Around
456-578: The west, Where, free from toil and pain, The weary soul may rest? The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answered, – “No.” Tell me, thou mighty deep, Whose billows round me play, Know’st thou some favored spot, Some island far away, Where weary man may find The bliss for which he sighs, – Where sorrow never lives, And friendship never dies? The loud waves, rolling in perpetual flow, Stopped for
480-596: Was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds . Charles Mackay was born in Perth . His father, George Mackay, was a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, and his mother Amelia Cargill died shortly after his birth. Mackay was educated at the Caledonian Asylum , in London. In 1828 he
504-630: Was hauled over the coals by his contemporaries and never taken seriously during his lifetime". In 1877, Mackay published his two-volume Forty Years' Recollections of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs. From 1830 to 1870 (London: Chapman & Hall). In volume 2, Mackay describes a journey he made to Famine Ireland in 1849 (pp. 2:76–148). His fame chiefly rested upon his songs, some of which, including " Cheer Boys Cheer ", were set to music by Henry Russell in 1846, and had an astonishing popularity. Some popular poems include "You have no enemies, you say?" and "Who shall be fairest?" Mackay also authored
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#1732773036763528-803: Was placed by his father at a school in Brussels , on the Boulevard de Namur, shortly taken over by William James Joseph Drury ; and studied languages. In 1830 he was engaged as a private secretary to William Cockerill , the ironmaster, near Liège , began writing in French in the Courrier Belge , and sent English poems to a local newspaper called The Telegraph . In the summer of 1830 he visited Paris, and he spent 1831 with Cockerill at Aix-la-Chapelle . In May 1832 his father brought him back to London, where he first found employment in teaching Italian to
552-424: Was published under the name The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser . From 1789 to its final publication in 1865, it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle . The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser was founded in 1769 by William Woodfall as publisher, editor, and reporter. From 1769 to 1789 the editor was William Woodfall. (In 1789 he sold his interest in the Morning Chronicle and in
576-638: Was working in the household. Mackay engaged in journalism in London: in 1834 he was an occasional contributor to The Sun . From the spring of 1835 till 1844 he was assistant sub-editor of The Morning Chronicle . In the autumn of 1839 he spent a month's holiday in Scotland, witnessing the Eglintoun Tournament , which he described in the Chronicle , and making acquaintances in Edinburgh. In
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