The Sporting Chronicle , known colloquially as The Chron , was a Manchester -based, daily , national horse racing newspaper which operated in Great Britain for 112 years until its closure in 1983 due to unsustainable losses (£5.8 million since 1975). The last edition was published on 23 July of that year.
16-795: Hulton may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] Edward Hulton (1838–1904), British newspaper proprietor and father of Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (1869-1925), British newspaper proprietor and father of Edward George Warris Hulton Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988), British magazine publisher Jim Hulton (born 1969), Canadian ice hockey coach William Hulton (1787–1864), English landowner of Hulton Park, Over Hulton , Lancashire Hulton Baronets Hulton family of Hulton , landowners in Lancashire, England, from late-12th to late-20th centuries. Places [ edit ] Abbey Hulton ,
32-412: A local cotton merchant. Sales were boosted by the decision of several local newspapers including The Manchester Guardian to restrict racing coverage to appease the growing anti-gambling sentiment in society. The Sporting Chronicle , a broadsheet which specialised in horse racing and published starting price odds, became the first major national daily sporting newspaper. Its main competitor
48-519: A town in Staffordshire, England, historically known as Hulton Little Hulton , in Salford, Greater Manchester, England Middle Hulton , a former township south-west of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England Over Hulton , a suburb of Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, England Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
64-421: Is the grandfather of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988), and the great-grandfather of magazine publisher and newspaper executive Sir Jocelyn Stevens (1932–2014). Hulton's daughter Theresa married Portuguese baron Sebastião Clemente de Sousa Deiró, 1st Baron of Sousa Deiró ( Ponta Delgada , 17 April 1866 – 1916) in 1894. Hulton's fourth daughter, Dame Margaret, DBE (1867–1950),
80-832: The Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1897, the Daily Dispatch in 1900 and the Daily Sketch tabloid in 1909. Edward sold his publishing business based in London and Manchester, which included a large group of newspapers, for £6 million when he retired in 1923. The newspapers sold included: Sporting Chronicle , Athletic News , Sunday Chronicle , Empire News , Evening Standard , Daily Sketch , Sunday Herald , Daily Dispatch and Manchester Evening Chronicle . Hulton married Mary Mosley in 1859. Through his son Edward (1869–1925), Hulton
96-958: The Sunday Chronicle . The newspapers founded by Hulton survived in some form long after his death. In 1931 the Athletic News merged with the Monday edition of the Sporting Chronicle , which ceased publication in 1983. In 1955 the Sunday Chronicle merged with the Empire News , which merged five years later with the News of the World tabloid , which ceased publication in 2011. Hulton's second son Edward expanded his father's newspaper interests, founding
112-474: The big industrial towns of the midlands and the north. Printed on one side of a single sheet, it carried the latest news from the courses, the selections of the leading morning papers, and up-to-date betting odds from the principal clubs. The Sporting Bell ultimately grew into the Sporting Chronicle newspaper Hulton founded in 1871 with financial backing from Edward Overall Bleackley (1831–1898),
128-570: The staff moved on to Sporting Life or the Racing Post , including the Racing Post' s founding editor, Graham Rock. Other staff included Tom Kelly, who went on to be head of the Association of British Bookmakers. The Sporting Chronicle was a pioneer of tipsters , one of the first being "Kettledrum", a pseudonym for Hulton himself. The paper also published an annual. Sporting Chronicle This horse racing -related article
144-522: The time of its closure it had dwindled to 33,000. Throughout its existence it had a keenly fought rivalry with the Sporting Life , Sporting Life being more widely read in the south, the Sporting Chronicle in the north. The demise of the Sporting Chronicle left Sporting Life as the only racing daily, until the advent of the Racing Post a few years later. After its closure, many of
160-535: The title Hulton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hulton&oldid=1164252051 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edward Hulton (senior) Edward Hulton (1838–1904)
176-725: Was a British newspaper proprietor in Victorian Manchester . Born the son of a weaver , he was an entrepreneur who established a vast newspaper empire and was the progenitor of a publishing dynasty. [He] never pretended to be other than a plain man who had struck lucky. Originally a bill-setter for the Manchester Guardian , he had built up a fine business out of the profits of a sporting tissue which had gone well in sport-mad Manchester. Bernard Falk, He Laughed in Fleet Street Hulton
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#1732780871415192-543: Was born in Manchester on 16 July 1838, the son of a weaver. While working as a compositor for The Manchester Guardian (now known as The Guardian ), he earned extra income publishing the Sporting Bell , a popular local horse racing tip sheet , under a pseudonym named after Kettledrum , the 1861 Epsom Derby winner. The Bell was similar to any number of midday racing tissues that proliferated in
208-404: Was the Sporting Life established in 1859. The contents of both publications were based upon betting and racing information for all course, track and field events associated with gambling, but they also propagated the art of the tipsters, those who claimed to know the winners of future races. Writing as "Kettledrum", Hulton was also the Sporting Chronicle' s tipster , and a tipping column
224-580: Was the second wife of Baron Strickland , 4th Prime Minister of Malta , marrying him in 1926. Together with Strickland's daughter Mabel Edeline Strickland from his first marriage, the couple founded The Times of Malta . Hulton died in 1904 at the age of 65 in Bucklow , Cheshire, and is buried in Sale Brooklands Cemetery in Sale, Greater Manchester . The net value of his estate
240-633: Was written by others under the same pseudonym until the newspaper closed in 1983. Hulton's publishing business started off in a basement in Spear Street in Manchester city centre . In 1873 premises were established for the expanding business at Withy Grove, the current site of The Printworks entertainment complex. In 1875 Hulton also founded the weekly Athletic News , which covered weekend sports fixtures other than horse racing and supported professional football , and in 1885 he founded
256-503: Was £509,000. Sporting Chronicle It was established in 1871 by Edward "Ned" Hulton , who founded other newspapers including the Athletic News which merged with the Sporting Chronicle in 1931 and the Sunday Chronicle , and whose son Edward Hulton founded the Manchester Evening Chronicle and the Daily Dispatch . By 1883, it had a daily readership of 30,000. In its heyday circulation topped 120,000, but by
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