Edward
George Hulton was born in Hume, Lancashire on 3rd March, 1869. His
father had been a compositor on the Manchester
Guardian before establishing his own papers, The
Sporting Chronicle (1871) and The
Athletic News (1875) .
Edward was educated at St. Bede's College, Manchester,
but at sixteen left to learn the newspaper trade with his father.
After serving an apprenticeship in the various departments he took
over control of the business in 1894. Three years later he started
a new halfpenny newspaper, the Manchester
Evening Chronicle. This was highly successful and was followed
by the Daily Dispatch in 1900.
In 1909 Hulton produced the Daily Sketch,
a illustrated morning paper. Six years later he began publishing the
Illustrated Sunday Herald. He
also purchased and developed the Evening
Standard. Hulton had been in poor health for many years and
in 1923 was forced to retire. Hulton sold all his publishing interests
to Allied Newspapers for £6,000,000. Edward Hulton died in 1925.
His son, Edward G. Hulton, later started
up his own publishing empire.
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