Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Baron. British publisher and statesman. Born in Chapelizod, Ireland, 1865. He founded in 1888 a weekly periodical "Answers," which met with great success. In 1894 he purchased the London "News," and subsequently founded or bought several influential British newspapers, and established "Harmsworth's Magazine." He was made baron in 1905. Upon the outbreak of the First World War, he conducted vigorous editorial campaigns in behalf of preparedness. In 1917, Lord Northcliffe came to the United States as a special representative of the British government in aid of various war commissions. Died 1922.

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