The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national

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, founded in

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in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton. It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and

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Berry (later Viscount Camrose and Viscount Kemsley). It was owned by a subsidiary of the Berrys' Allied Newspapers from 1928 Dennis Griffiths (ed.). ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 187 (renamed Kemsley Newspapers in 1937 when Camrose withdrew to concentrate his efforts on ''

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''). In 1946, it was merged with the '' Daily Graphic''. In 1952, Kemsley decided to sell the paper to Associated Newspapers, the owner of the ''

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'', who promptly revived the ''Daily Sketch'' name in 1953. The paper struggled through the 1950s and 1960s, never managing to compete successfully with the ''

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'', and in 1971 it was closed and merged with the ''Daily Mail''. The ''Sketch'' was Conservative in its politics and populist in its tone during its existence through all its changes of ownership. In some ways, much of the more populist element of today's ''Daily Mail'' was inherited from the ''Sketch'': before the merger, the more serious ''Mail'', previously a

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, was also

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. The ''Sketch'' notably launched a

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over Daniel Farson's 1960 television documentary ''Living for Kicks'', a portrait of British teenage life at the time, which led to a war of words between the ''Sketch'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. It also participated in the press campaign against the screening of the BBC film '' The War Game''.

Editors

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:1942: Lionel Berry :1943: A. Roland Thornton and M. Watts :1944: A. Roland Thornton :1947: N. Hamilton :1948: Henry Clapp :1953: Herbert Gunn :1959:

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:1962: Howard French :1969: David English :1971: Louis Kirby (acting)

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