Sunday Graphic
Appearance
The Sunday Graphic was an English tabloid newspaper published in Fleet Street.
The newspaper was founded in 1915 as the Sunday Herald and was later renamed the Illustrated Sunday Herald. In 1927 it changed its name to the Sunday Graphic, becoming the sister paper of the Daily Graphic. In 1931 it was merged with the Sunday News. It ceased publication on 4 December 1960.[1]
Editors
- 1926: T. Hill
- 1931: Alan Sinclair
- 1935: Reginald Simpson
- 1947: M. Watts
- 1947: N. Hamilton
- 1948: Iain Lang
- 1949: A. J. Josey
- 1950: Barry Horniblow
- 1952: Philip Brownrigg
- 1953: Mike Randall
- 1953: Gordon McKenzie
- 1958: Allan Hall
- 1959: Robert Anderson
- 1960: Andrew Ewart
Source: David Butler and Anne Sloman, British Political Facts, 1900-1979, p.445
Trivials
The most infamous Sunday Graphic Number war from September 15th 1935: Packages of human flesh, found in Moffat (Scotland) in 1935, were surrounded by sheets of Sunday Graphic of this day and led the investigaters zu later convicted and hanged Buck Ruxton from Lancaster in Lancashire.
References
- ^ David Butler and Anne Sloman, British Political Facts, 1900-1979, p.445