Person:Harold Harmsworth (1)

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Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
b.26 Apr 1868
d.26 Nov 1940
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  • H.  Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere1868 - 1940
  • W.  Mary Lilian Share1874 - 1937
m. 4 Jul 1893
  1. Harold Alfred Vyvyan St. George Harmsworth1894 - 1918
  2. Vere Sidney Tudor Harmsworth1895 - 1916
  3. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere1898 - 1978
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Name Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
Gender Male
Birth? 26 Apr 1868
Marriage 4 Jul 1893 to Mary Lilian Share
Occupation? Daily Mail owner
Death? 26 Nov 1940
Reference Number? Q336483?


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Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor who owned Associated Newspapers Ltd. He is best known, like his brother Alfred Harmsworth, later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. Rothermere was a pioneer of popular tabloid journalism.

Two of Rothermere's three sons were killed in action during the First World War and in the 1930s, he opposed the Second World War, advocated instead peaceful relations between Germany and the United Kingdom, and used his media influence to that end. His open support for fascism and praise for Nazism and the British Union of Fascists contributed to the popularity of those views in the 1930s. That ambition, for which Rothermere became best known, was not successful, and he died in Bermuda early in the war.

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