William Heseltine Mudford (1 March 1839–18 October 1916), known as W. H. Mudford, was a British
newspaper editor.
Biography
The son of
William Mudford, a newspaper editor, W. H. Mudford went to work for ''
The Standard
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'' newspaper in London around 1860. He rose to become business manager in 1873, and editor in 1876: and in owner
James Johnstone's will of 1878 his tenure as editor with managerial control was made permanent, until his death or resignation. He made ''The Standard'' the second best-selling morning newspaper, after ''
The Times'', printing 250,000 copies per day by the mid-1880s. However, he was reluctant to update the paper's style, and during the 1890s it lost sales to new papers such as the ''
Daily Mail
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''. He resigned in 1899, and retired to
Wimbledon Common.
Mudford, William Heseltine
, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''
References
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1839 births
1916 deaths
English newspaper editors
English male journalists
London Evening Standard people