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496:'s centenary (at which time he had served nearly fifty years as editor), Scott put down his opinions on the role of the newspaper. He argued that the "primary office" of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying "comment is free, but facts are sacred". Even editorial comment has its responsibilities: "It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair". A newspaper should have a "soul of its own", with staff motivated by a "common ideal": although the business side of a newspaper must be competent, if it becomes dominant the paper will face "distressing consequences". 33: 1426: 258: 250: 194:, was his uncle, and at the time of his birth Scott's father, Russell Scott, was the paper's owner, though he later sold it back to Taylor's sons under the terms of Taylor's will. Accepting the offer, Scott joined the paper as their London editor in February 1871 and became its editor on 1 January 1872. 351:
from where he could gather news intelligence on European developments. Would the government declare war? Scott recorded that the German ambassador had been deceived into believing that Britain would stay outside the conflict. But liberal policy always accentuated one of "continuity" of free radicals
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Scott turned his paper into a pacifist weapon against entering the war, and he lobbied the cabinet as well. His leaders denounced a "conspiracy to drag us into a war against England's interests", arguing that it would amount to a "crime against Europe" and warning that it would "throw away the
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at £10,000, and recommended that they should offer him the offices and printing works of the paper on "moderate and reasonable terms". However, they were not required to sell it at all, and could continue to run the paper themselves "on the same lines and in the same spirit as heretofore".
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but remained essentially anti-Conservative. Nonetheless the War Office acknowledged the utility of civilians as contacts on the ground; Scott's opinion was solicited on anything from the strength of Irish war opinions to whether Churchill should be removed from office.
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in a weekly column called "From Our Correspondent, Paris, Friday". Despite Lloyd George's objection to the reporter's anonymity there remained little chance of compromising their French colleagues in a city already renowned for prostitution. To the contrary,
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to Lloyd George. He struck up a remarkable friendship with the Jewish émigré, whose intellectual brilliance and business savvy was lately attracting the attention of even the Tory Press and senior ministers. Scott wrote regularly in the
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continued to grow with Lloyd George's influence overseeing its place at the top table. In one such famous interview the new Prime Minister gave his "fight to the finish" speech. Scott was responsible for recruiting the correspondent
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in his editorials, accusing them of employing 'every engine of misguided fanaticism in order to wreck, if it be in their power, the fair prospects of their cause' He was just as disturbed by the
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told Scott, "Up until last Sunday only two members of the Cabinet had been in favour of our intervention in the war but the violation of Belgian territory had completely altered the situation".
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until 1 July 1929, at which time he was eighty-three years old and had been editor for exactly fifty-seven and a half years. His successor as editor was his youngest son,
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Although a lifelong liberal, Scott had a troubled relationship with Lloyd George. Perhaps most instructive of his communicating skills was the introduction he made of
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Bloom, Cecil. "Josiah Wedgwood and Palestine". Jewish Historical Studies, vol. 42, 2009, pp. 147–172. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/29780127. Accessed 29 January 2020.
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Furthermore, one of the trustees was a nephew of Taylor and would financially benefit from forcing up the price at which Scott could buy the paper, and another was
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warned the Left of the impending violence should they not heed the warnings contained in the newspapers about the coming military occupation. The
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Hampton, Mark (2001). "The press, patriotism, and public discussion: CP Scott, The Manchester Guardian and the Boer War, 1899–1902".
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at its heart. But for Scott the Cabinet remained too reticent to act, too timid, clearly an indication of his movement towards
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had profoundly shocked the establishment in Ireland; on 27 July 1916 Scott would hold just a one-off meeting with
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In 1874, Scott married Rachel Cook, who had been one of the first undergraduates of the College for Women,
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In 1886, Scott fought his first general election as a Liberal candidate, an unsuccessful attempt in the
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accumulated progress of half a century". On Tuesday, 4 August 1914 – the day the king declared war –
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Lloyd George papers - contains a large number of letters and correspondence - British Library (BL).
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in Manchester to his friend C. P. Scott. After Scott's death the house became the property of the
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Member of Parliament and pursued a progressive liberal agenda in the pages of the newspaper.
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his friend suggested that it had "a most excellent effect here." Scott became friendly with
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constituency; he stood again for the same seat in 1891 and 1892. He was elected at the
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offices most evenings. He died in the early hours of New Year's Day 1932.
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The Balfour Declaration : the origins of the arab-israeli conflict
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whose role in Paris was to communicate on secret negotiations with the
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History (Faculty of Life Sciences – The University of Manchester)
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Educated at Hove House and Clapham Grammar School, Scott studied at
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had taken, but retired from Parliament at the time of the Liberal
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The Editorial Correspondence of C.P Scott in the Guardian Archive
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Letter to E. D. Morel, 18 Aug 1914; Wilson (ed.), Scott's
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Leigh
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British journalist, publisher and politician (1846–1932)
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While in London, he stayed at the central location of
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Scott 1027: 343:His politics and relations with Government 31: 945:, 15 March 1915; Wilson (ed.), pp.119-121 762:"Authors, Novelists, Writers & Poets" 422:and Lloyd George in the aftermath of the 233:lead the party towards support for Irish 1466:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1261: 289:despite the unpopular stand against the 256: 248: 1092: 1079: 913: 829: 666: 664: 662: 244: 1443: 1114: 1073:The Guardian: Biography of a Newspaper 1070: 995:The Guardian: Biography of a Newspaper 433:and with his left-wing friends at the 1481:British newspaper publishers (people) 1235: 1142:Comment is free, but facts are sacred 1102: 1084:C.P. Scott of the Manchester Guardian 596:In 1882, having built a new house in 197:As editor Scott initially maintained 1039:; Manchester's Greats. 30 April 1977 659: 386:dealing frankly and openly with the 364:MP, who was not in the War Cabinet. 1009: 993:4 May 1916, in David Ayerst (1971) 698:"History of Corpus Christi College" 13: 14: 1522: 1124: 796: 727: 582:. His middle son John became the 1425: 1424: 1157:Parliament of the United Kingdom 633:, and became its London editor. 503:, Scott was hostile to militant 261:Bust of Scott in the offices of 1046: 1000: 987: 978: 969: 960: 948: 935: 907: 700:. 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Index


Bath, Somerset
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
John Russell Scott
Edward Taylor Scott
Bath
Somerset
The Guardian
Liberal
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Greats
Edinburgh
The Scotsman
John Edward Taylor
whigs
Lord Hartington
radicals
Joseph Chamberlain
Liberal Unionist Party
Conservatives
Gladstone
Home Rule
new liberalism


Manchester North East
1895 election
Leigh
backbencher
1900 election

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