Iliffe, Berry, Hulton: landmarks
Landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. Context is provided by the broader general communications and media timeline.
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Beginnings
1772 London Morning Post founded
1857 launch of Birmingham Post
1871 Edward H Hulton launches The Sporting Chronicle
1877 Algernon Borthwick (later Lord Glenesk) buys Morning Post
1875 Hulton launches The Athletic News
1885 Hulton launches Manchester Sunday Chronicle
1886 Alfred Harmsworth employed by Edward Iliffe to edit Bicycling News
1891 William Iliffe founds Midland Evening Telegraph
1895 William Iliffe launches Autocar magazine in Coventry
1897 Hulton launches Manchester Evening Chronicle
1900 son Edward G Hulton launches Daily Dispatch
1901 William Berry (later Lord Camrose) launches Advertising World
1909 William Berry launches Boxing
1909 Hulton launches Daily Sketch
1914 Hulton buys Evening Standard
1915 Hulton launches Sunday Herald
The Financial Times
1919 William Berry acquires Financial Times and St Clements Press
1919 Hulton buys Topical Film Company
1921 Hulton becomes baronet
1923 Hulton sells his Evening Standard, Daily Sketch, Sunday Herald and 11 other titles to Beaverbrook for £6 million
1923 William Berry, Gomer Berry and Sir Edward Illiffe form Allied Newspapers
1924 Allied buys Hulton provincial titles and Glasgow Daily Record from Beaverbrook and Rothermere
1924 Bathursts sell Morning Post
1925 Allied Newspapers buys Daily Sketch from Beaverbrook and Rothermere
1924 Iliffe & Sons buys Wireless World
1928 Allied Newspapers acquires Daily Telegraph from Lord Burnham
1929 William Berry becomes baron
1930 Berrys buy Sunday News (merged with Sunday Graphic)
1930 Berrys buy Sheffield Independent and Mail
1932 Berrys trade Bristol and Derby evening titles for Rothermere's Newcastle evening title
1933 Sir Edward Iliffe becomes first Lord Iliffe
1936 Gomer Berry becomes baron
Allied and Amalgamated split
1937 Allied Newspapers partnership between Berrys and Iliffe dissolved
1937 Berrys divide Amalgamated Press interests - Camrose takes Daily Telegraph and Financial Times, Kemsley takes provincial titles and Sunday Times
1937 Kemsley sells Reading Gazette and minor periodicals to Iliffe
1937 Duke of Northumberland's heirs sell Morning Post
1937 Camrose folds Morning Post into Daily Telegraph
1937 Camrose folds Morning Post into Daily Telegraph
1938 Edward Hulton III launches Picture Post magazine, establishes Hulton Picture Library (later acquired by Getty) as photo archive
1941 Midland Evening Telegraph becomes Coventry Evening Telegraph
1941 William Berry becomes viscount (Lord Camrose)
1944 Iliffe buys BPM Holdings (including Birmingham Post)
1944 Gomer Berry becomes viscount (Lord Kemsley)
1950 Hulton Press launches The Eagle
1950 Hulton Press launches Girl
1952 Kemsley sells Daily Graphic to Rothermere
1953 Hulton Press launches Robin
1950 Hulton Press launches Swift
1955 Kemsley-Winnick consortium for UK ITV television licence collapses
1956 Picture Post closes
Out of print
1959 Thomson uses STV to buy Kemsley newspapers (including Sunday Times and regional newspaper operations in Aberdeen, Middlesborough, Blackburn, Sheffield, Manchester, Cardiff and Newcastle)
1960 Hulton's printing and publishing operations acquired by Odhams Press
1960 Girl closes
1960 Odhams rebadged as Longacre Press
1961 Manchester Guardian acquires daily Manchester Evening Chronicle from Berry family
1969 IPC buys Longacre Press
1969 the Eagle closes
1979 Yattendon buys Plymouth Sunday Independent from Tindle
1986 Conrad Black's Hollinger buys the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
1987 Iliffe sells Birmingham Post & Mail to Ralph Ingersoll II for £60m
2001 Yattendon buys Channel Television for about £20m