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Kennard, Sir Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy

Born
1828
Died
1890
Title
Sir
Forenames
Coleridge Arthur Fitzroy
Surname
Kennard

Financier of the London Evening News during the period of FH's editorship. FH describes how he first met Kennard and they talked about the paper:

"I found Coleridge Kennard a fussy little person who seemed very anxious to keep the paper strictly
Conservative. Because it only cost a ha'penny, people thought it should be radical, but he wanted it to fight
communism and all that nonsense: that's why he took it up. But if it couldn't be made to pay, of course he'd
have to drop it ultimately. Nobody seemed to know how to make it pay: the advertisements were increasing,
but the circulation didn't seem to budge."

FH did persuade Kennard to make him editor and was successful in reviving its fortunes.

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