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Marjorie was the President of The Friends of Roundhay Park, a charitable organisation formed in 1994, which is dedicated to the preservation of Roundhay Park in Leeds. [7] [8] She has also acted as a representative for the Yorkshire Evening Post in local competitions and award ceremonies. [9]
The newspaper broke the story of the Edward VIII abdication crisis under the editorship of Arthur Mann. [7] In 1939, The Yorkshire Post absorbed a rival, the Leeds Mercury, which was founded in 1718 and was liberal in comparison to the Leeds Intelligencer from the late 18th century, and under the editorship of Edward Baines and his son (also named Edward Baines). [8]
The Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP) is a regional daily newspaper covering the City of Leeds as well as Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield. Founded in 1890 it is published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers .
The company acquired the Leeds Mercury in 1923 and merged it with the Yorkshire Post in 1939. The company was renamed "Yorkshire Post Newspapers" in 1969. The first chairman was William Beckett-Denison, from a Leeds banking family (Beckett's Bank was founded in 1774 and acquired by Westminster Bank in 1921). Successive chairmen were members of ...
Greenside House, where Veale was born. Veale was born into "a medical family, associated in particular with the Leeds School of Medicine". [1] [2] [3] Her father was Harrogate general practitioner Dr Richard Sobey Veale, [nb 1] who, like his daughter, had to travel hundreds of miles for his qualifications, having been born in Maker, Cornwall, and trained at Edinburgh.
Bradford Star (1981-2000) [1]; Harrogate Herald (1847–1957), pub. Robert Ackrill. [2]Hull Portfolio, radical newspaper of James Acland, founded c.1831.; The Hull Packet and East Riding Times [3] / The Hull Packet Humber Mercury or Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Advertiser [4] / Yorkshire Advertiser
Alfred Hill Thompson, ARIBA, was born in Leeds in 1839. [2] His father John Thompson (b.1816) was a china and glass dealer, and hairdresser whose wife was Elizabeth Thompson (b.1814). In 1851 the family was living at 134 Upper Kirkgate, Leeds, Thompson was aged 13, the eldest of five children. [ 3 ]
It was founded in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1754 [1] and first published on 2 July 1754. [2] It was a weekly paper until it was renamed and became the daily Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, first published on Monday 2 July 1866, until 1883 when the "and Leeds Intelligencer" was dropped from the title.