How to Pronounce Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
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Apr 26, 1868 London Died on 26 Nov 1940 (aged 72)
British newspaper publisher and Viscount
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About Harold Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere
- Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, (26 April 1868 – 26 November 1940) was a leading British newspaper proprietor, owner of Associated Newspapers Ltd.
- He is known in particular, with his brother Alfred Harmsworth, the later Viscount Northcliffe, for the development of the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror.
- He was a pioneer of popular journalism. During the 1930s, he was known to be a supporter of Nazi Germany, purportedly having become convinced that the National Socialist Party would help restore the German monarchy.
- He cultivated contacts to promote British support for Germany.
