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Harmsworth, Harold Sydney, 1st Viscount Rothermere 1868-1940
Irish newspaper magnate
Born and educated in London, he was closely associated with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, and founded the Glasgow Daily Record. In 1910 he established the King Edward chair of English literature at Cambridge and received a baronetcy. He dissociated himself from his brother in 1914 and concentrated on the Daily Mirror, which reached a circulation of three million by 1922. He also founded the Sunday Pictorial (1915), was Air Minister (1917-18), and after his brother's death acquired control of the Daily Mail and Sunday Dispatch.
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