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JOHN THADEUS DELANE (1817-1879)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN THADEUS See also:DELANE (1817-1879)  , editor of The Times (See also:London), was See also:born on the 11th of See also:October 1817 in London . He was the second son of Mr W . F . A . See also:Delane, a See also:barrister, of an old Irish See also:family, who about 1832 was appointed by Mr See also:Walter See also:financial manager of The Times . While still a boy he attracted Mr Walter's See also:attention, and it was always intended that he should find See also:work on the See also:paper . He received a See also:good See also:general See also:education at private See also:schools and See also:King's See also:College, London, and also at Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford; after taking his degree in 184o he at once began work on the paper, though later he read for the See also:bar, being called in 1847 . In 1841 he succeeded See also:Thomas See also:Barnes as editor, a See also:post which he occupied for See also:thirty-six years . He from the first obtained the best introductions into society and the See also:chief See also:political circles, and had a position there such as no journalist had previously enjoyed, using his opportunities with a sure See also:intuition for the way in which events would move . His See also:staff included some of the most brilliant men of the See also:day, who worked together with a See also:common ideal . The result to the paper, which in those days had hardly any real competitor in See also:English journalism, was an excellence of See also:information which gave it See also:great See also:power . (See See also:NEws-PAPERS.) Delane was a See also:man of many interests and great See also:judgment; capable of See also:long application and concentrated attention, with power to seize always on the See also:main point at issue, and rapidly See also:master the essential facts in the most complicated affair .

His general policy was to keep the paper a See also:

national See also:organ of See also:opinion above party, but with a tendency to sympathize with the Liberal movements of the day . He admired See also:Palmerston and respected See also:Lord See also:Aberdeen, and was of considerable use to both; and it was Lord Aberdeen himself who, in 1845, told him of the impending See also:repeal of the See also:Corn See also:Laws, an incident See also:round which many incorrect stories have gathered . The See also:history, however, of the events during the thirteen administrations, between 1841 and 1877, in which The Times, and therefore Delane, played an important See also:part cannot here be recapitulated . In 1877 his See also:health gave way, and he retired from the editorship; and on the 22nd of See also:November 1879 he died at See also:Ascot . A See also:biography by his See also:nephew, See also:Arthur Irwin See also:Dasent, was published in 1908 .

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