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The Coventry Herald, Coventry Herald and Observer or the Coventry Herald and Free Press was a newspaper that was established in 1808 by Alderman Nathaniel Merridew, a ribbon warehouseman and Congregationalist, in Coventry, England, and ran in print until 1940. [1] [2] [3]

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Coventry Herald (1808–1830)

Merridew's Whig and Dissenting views were initially represented by the newspaper and it was the recognized publication of the Liberal party in Coventry. [2] The newspaper's control was given to Alderman Nathanial's third son Henry upon his death. [4] Originally just the Coventry Herald, [4] a political disagreement in 1828 with the Liberal party led to a competing newspaper, the Coventry Observer to be formed in 1828. [1]

Coventry Herald and Observer (1830–1863)

These papers were later merged into a single paper under Henry in 1830. [1] Henry's business failed and he sold to John Turner (1842), and later opened a boarding hotel in Boulogne-sur-Mer. [4] Successive owners include Charles Bray (1846) [1] [2] While owned by Bray, the newspaper published some of the earliest prose writing of George Eliot. [5]

Coventry Herald and Free Press (1863–1940)

The newspaper changed names again in 1863, after merging with the Free Press and Midland Express in 1863. [6] During the 1860s, it was owned by Matthew Vincent, who claimed that he turned down an offer of £30,000 from Joseph Chamberlain to purchase it, because Chamberlain would have changed the political alignment of the newspaper. [7] In 1914 they absorbed the Coventry Times . [2] The paper stopped publication in 1940. [2]

Archives

Historical copies of the Coventry Herald, dating back to 1824, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive. [8]

The Coventry Observer (2014–present)

The Coventry Observer is local weekly newspaper published by Bullivant Media. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "More information about Coventry Herald". British Newspaper Archive . Retrieved 8 July 2014. Note: the information can be accessed by clicking on the (i) icon.
  3. "Coventry Herald in British Newspaper Archive" . Retrieved 27 July 2021 via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. 1 2 3 "Obituary-Mr. John Merridew". The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 213: 639–641. 1862.
  5. McCormick, Kathleen (Summer 1986). "George Eliot's Earliest Prose: The Coventry "Herald" and the Coventry Fiction". Victorian Periodicals Review. 19 (2): 57–62. JSTOR   20082202.
  6. Arthur Miller Kaye Miller, ed. (1905). Catalogue of printed books in the library of the British Museum: Supplement. Newspapers published in Great Britain and Ireland. 1801-1900. W. Clowes and Sons. p.  205. Coventry Herald.
  7. Alexander, Joseph Aloysius (1928). The Life of George Chaffey. Macmillan. pp. 154–155.
  8. Digitised copies of the Coventry Herald
  9. "Terms & Conditions". The Coventry Observer. Retrieved 13 December 2021.