John Walter (editor, Born 1818)
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John Walter III (8 October 1818 – 3 November 1894) was an English newspaper publisher and Liberal politician who sat in the
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variously between 1847 and 1885. Walter was born at Printing-house Square, the eldest son of John Walter, editor of ''
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''. He was educated at Eton and
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, being called to the bar in 1847.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
/ref> On leaving Oxford he took part in the business management of ''The Times'', and on his father's death became sole manager, delegating some of his work to Mowbray Morris. He was a man of scholarly tastes and serious religious views, and his conscientious character had a marked influence on the tone of the paper. It was under him that the successive improvements in the printing machinery, begun by his father in 1814, at last reached the stage of the "Walter Press" in 1869, the pioneer of modern newspaper
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es. In 1847 Walter was elected to Parliament for
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as a moderate Liberal, and was re-elected in 1852 and in 1857. In 1859 he was returned for
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, where he lived at
Bearwood House Bearwood or Bear Wood, Sindlesham, Berkshire, England is a Victorian country house built for John Walter, the owner of ''The Times''. The architect was Robert Kerr and the house was constructed between 1865 and 1874. The family fortune had been ...
in
Sindlesham Sindlesham is an estate village in the borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England. It is located around southeast of Reading and around west of the town of Bracknell, and just south of the village of Winnersh, from which it is separated by the M ...
. John Walter built a model village arranged around a greenArborfield local history website
Retrieved 23 December 2013.
at Sindlesham, whose buildings included a "typically solid Victorian building" which housed a pub and still bears the family name today, as the Walter Arms.The Walter Arms pub website
Retrieved 23 December 2013.
Though defeated in 1865, John Walter III was again elected to Parliament for Berkshire in 1868, and held the seat until he retired in 1885. Walter was twice married, first in 1842 to Emily Frances Court (d. 1858), and then in 1861 to Flora Macnab. His eldest son by his first marriage, John, was accidentally drowned at Bearwood on Christmas Eve in 1870, while trying to rescue his brother and cousin. Walter was succeeded by
Arthur Fraser Walter Arthur Fraser Walter (12 September 1846 – 10 August 1910) was an English newspaper owner and publisher, chief proprietor of ''The Times'' from 1894 until 1908. Early life Born on 12 September 1846, Walter was the second son of John Walte ...
(1846–1910), his second son by his first marriage. A.F. Walter remained chief proprietor of ''The Times'' until 1908, when it was converted into a company. He then became chairman of the board of directors, and on his death was succeeded in this position by his son John.


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Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
John Walter papers, 1895-1956.
(John Walter IV) {{DEFAULTSORT:Walter, John 1818 births 1894 deaths Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Berkshire 19th-century British newspaper publishers (people) People educated at Eton College People from Winnersh Walter family UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 19th-century English journalists English male journalists