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John Edward Taylor (September 11, 1791 - January 6, 1844) was the founder of the Manchester Guardian newspaper, later to become The Guardian. Born at Ilminster, Somerset, England where his father was a Unitarian minister, he was apprenticed to a cotton manufacturer in Manchester, later becoming a successful merchant. He was a moderate supporter of reform and witnessed the Peterloo massacre in 1819. In 1821 he founded the Manchester Guardian, which he continued to edit until his death.
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the newspaper was sold to John Edward Taylor, the son of the founder and owner of the Manchester Guardian (now The Guardian ). Taylor brought his brother-in-law Peter Allen in as a partner in the Evening News ; after Taylor's death in 1907 the Guardian was sold to its editor C. P. Scott while the...
group of non-conformist businessmen headed by John Edward Taylor. The first edition was published on May... estate of Taylor's son in 1907. In June 1936, to avoid death duty, ownership of the paper was passed to the Scott Trust (named after the last owner, John Russell Scott, who was the first chairman of...