Lewis Doxat

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Lewis Doxat
Born1778
Calcutta, India
Died4 March 1871 (aged 9293)
London, England
OccupationEditor of The Observer
Morning Chronicle

Lewis Doxat (1778, Calcutta, India - 4 March 1871, London, England) was an English newspaper editor.

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Biography

Born in India, Doxat came to England as a young boy. He settled in London, where he found work with the Morning Chronicle . In 1804 he started an association with The Observer , and rose to become its editor three years later. He would serve as the editor of the Sunday weekly for the next fifty years. As editor, Doxat played more of a managerial role than a journalistic one, and proudly claimed that he never penned "an article on any subject under any circumstances whatsoever." [1] During his time, he introduced new typography and pioneered the use of woodcuts to illustrate articles. Such innovations ensured the commercial success of the newspaper, though not without controversy as some felt that the use of woodcuts to illustrate their coverage of the Radlett murder as exceeding the bounds of propriety. The paper also got into trouble with the crown when it defied a government ban on reporting proceedings against the Cato Street conspirators who planned to kill off members of parliament. [2]

When the owner of The Observer , William Innell Clement, purchased the Morning Chronicle in 1821, he installed Doxat as the newspaper's manager. Doxat served in both positions simultaneously for the next thirteen years, returning exclusively to his duties with The Observer when Clement sold the Morning Chronicle in 1834. Doxat continued to edit The Observer, which developed a reputation during this time for its exclusive information about contemporary politics, until his retirement in 1857. [3]

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References

  1. "Unravelling the DNA inside Britain's oldest Sunday paper". The Guardian . 1 January 2006. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  2. "History of the Observer". The Guardian . 6 June 2002. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  3. "Observer timeline". The Guardian . 11 June 2002. Retrieved 27 October 2009.

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