20-541: The Manchester Courier was a daily newspaper founded in Manchester, England, by Thomas Sowler; the first edition was published on 1 January 1825. Alaric Alexander Watts was the paper's first editor, but remained in the position for only a year. The newspaper circulation area was in Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, Cumberland, Staffordshire, and North Wales. An advocate of commerce and agriculture and
40-632: A number of popular poets of the day, including John Clare , Mary Howitt , Thomas Hood , Felicia Hemans , and his brother-in-law Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen . In 1827 he assisted in founding the Standard as a sub-editor, while the first editor was Stanley Lees Giffard ; and in 1833 he started the United Service Gazette , which he edited for eight years. In 1839 he helped Lady Bulwer with a manuscript of Cheveley and during that time he offered her to stay some time at his cottage. During
60-567: A schoolmaster at Epping , Essex . In 1811 he returned to Woburn and opened a school in Leighton Road. By hard study he made himself at home in the classics and Hebrew, French, and Italian, and later, Spanish and Welsh. On a visit to the Lake District with his brother in the summer of 1819 he made the acquaintance of Robert Southey and of William Wordsworth , whose "white pantaloons" and "hawk's nose" are described in his diary. In
80-661: A supporter of the Church of England , the paper's initial agenda was to act as a counterpoint to the reforms being advocated by The Manchester Guardian , and in particular to proposals for the emancipation of Catholics . It provided Hugh Stowell , rector of St Stephen's Church in Salford, with a platform to "wage war" on any group dissenting from the orthodox views of the Anglican Church, such as Catholics and Jews, but also including Unitarians , whom Stowell doubted even had
100-515: A translator of Tasso, was ahead of John Hoole and James Leigh Hunt , but some way behind Edward Fairfax . Wiffen's other poetical works were: Eight years' work went into Wiffen's compilation of Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell , 1833, 2 vols. He made some of the researches over a four months' tour in Normandy . Other publications were a Geographical Primer (1812), and Thoughts on
120-520: A weekly newspaper. In 1905, Lord Northcliffe purchased the Manchester Courier and installed James Nicol Dunn as editor "with a big fanfare of trumpets and a large ceremonial lunch". Northcliffe's adventures in northern newspapers was ultimately unsuccessful: Dunn served as editor from 1905 and 1910, and in 1916 the newspaper ceased publication. Alaric Alexander Watts Alaric Alexander Watts (16 March 1797 – 5 April 1864)
140-709: Is buried in Highgate Cemetery , against the northern boundary wall (above the catacombs). His poems were collected as Lyrics of the Heart and published in 1850. In 1867 a collection of his poems was published in a volume titled The Laurel and the Lyre . Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (30 December 1792 – 2 May 1836) was an English poet and writer, known as translator of Torquato Tasso . The eldest son of John Wiffen, an ironmonger, by his wife Elizabeth Pattison, both from Quaker backgrounds, he
160-638: The Creation, Fall, and Regeneration , 1826, by John Humbles, "a Bedfordshire peasant" which Wiffen edited. A selection of his poems and ballads was given in The Brothers Wiffen (1880), by S. R. Pattison. Wiffen married Mary Whitehead, on 28 November 1828, at the Friends' meeting-house in Leeds . They had three daughters. Attribution [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
180-631: The Evening Star versified from Ossian . His first contribution on an antiquarian subject was an account of Broxbourne church, Hertfordshire , with an etching by himself. With James Baldwin Brown the elder and Thomas Raffles , Wiffen published Poems by Three Friends (1813); the joint authorship was acknowledged in the second edition (1815). With his brother he published Elegiac Lines (1818) commemorating William Thompson, Quaker schoolmaster of Penketh , Lancashire. His earliest independent volume
200-488: The columns of which he was one of the first to advocate measures for protecting workers in factories against accidents from machinery (see occupational safety ). In 1823 he published his first volume of verse, Poetical Sketches , and in 1824 he became the editor of the Literary Souvenir (till 1838), of which he also became the proprietor two years later. During his ownership he secured the co-operation of some of
220-563: The most famous men of letters of that period. In 1825 he went to Manchester as editor of the Manchester Courier , a position which he resigned a year later. He bought The Literary Magnet around December 1825, first making an unnamed "very clever young literary friend" the editor, before taking over as the anonymous editor from July 1826 to December 1827. Under his ownership, The Literary Magnet changed its emphasis from prose to poetry, and he managed to get contributions from
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#1732790710447240-508: The right to call themselves Christians. The daily Manchester Evening Mail , established by Thomas Sowler junior in 1874 and closed in 1902, was a companion publication and one of several newspapers which began around that time with the intention of providing a less highbrow alternative to their longer-established stablemates. The introduction of the Mail coincided with the Courier becoming
260-490: The same year he returned to the Standard as an editor and took a job at the Morning Herald where he worked until 1846. Watts met and married Priscilla "Zillah" Maden Watts ( née Wiffen ) in the early 1820s. The couple had a child, Alaric Alfred , in 1825. Mrs Watts also published and wrote for newspapers and magazines like The New Year's Gift and Juvenile Souvenir (1829–36) until she died in 1873. Watts
280-499: The summer of 1821 he was appointed librarian at Woburn Abbey to John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford . Wiffen declined the degree of LL.D. from Aberdeen University in 1827. His death was sudden, at Froxfield , near Woburn, on 2 May 1836; he was buried on 8 May in the Friends' graveyard, Woburn Sands , Buckinghamshire. Wiffen's first appearance in print was in the European Magazine of October 1807, with an Address to
300-494: Was Aonian Hours (1819, dedicated to his brother; 2nd ed. 1820). His next book was Julia Alpinula … and other Poems (1820, dedicated to Alaric Watts; 2nd ed. 1820). In 1821 Wiffen issued "Proposals" for publishing by subscription a new translation of Tasso in Spenserian verse. As a specimen, the fourth book of Jerusalem Delivered was published in 1821, with a dissertation on existing translations. His next work in verse
320-522: Was a British poet and journalist , born in London. His life was dedicated to newspaper creation and editing, and he was seen as a conservative writer. It led him to bankruptcy, when a pension was awarded to him by a friend, Lord Aberdeen . He may now be best remembered for his alliterative poem The Siege of Belgrade , which begins with a much-quoted couplet : An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. Alaric Watts
340-559: Was a translation of The Works of Garcilasso de la Vega , 1823, dedicated to the Duke of Bedford, with a life of Garcilaso de la Vega , and an essay on Spanish poetry. The publication of the completed version of Jerusalem Delivered was delayed by a fire in the printing office; it appeared in 1824, dedicated to the Duchess of Bedford, with a life of Tasso and a list of English crusaders, 2 vols. The Quarterly Review concluded that Wiffen, as
360-532: Was born at Woburn , Bedfordshire , on 30 December 1792; Benjamin Barron Wiffen was his younger brother, and his youngest sister Priscilla married Alaric Alexander Watts . His father died young, leaving six children to Elizabeth's care. At the age of ten Jeremiah entered Ackworth School in Yorkshire , where he acquired some skill in wood engraving . At age 14, Wiffen was apprenticed to Isaac Payne,
380-460: Was involved with a number of provincial Conservative newspapers which were not financially successful. In 1848, he was sentenced for some time in debtors' prison; in 1850 he declared bankruptcy. In 1854, Lord Aberdeen came to his rescue by awarding Watts a civil service pension. In 1856 he was back to editing, publishing the first issue of Men of the Time . Watts died in London on 5 April 1864 and
400-696: Was the son of John Mosley Watts and grandson of William Watts, a Leicester physician of repute. After leaving school he made his living as a teacher for a short time, and in 1818–19 was part of the staff of the New Monthly Magazine in London. At about the same time he became a contributor to the Literary Gazette . In 1822, leaving his position at the Gazette, he was made editor of the Leeds Intelligencer (1822–23), in
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