Sir George Newnes (1851-1910) was a publisher and editor in Britain. 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ...

His father was a Congregational church minister. He was well educated for his day, at Shireland Hall, Warwickshire, and the City of London School. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ... In most Protestant churches, a minister is a member of the ordained clergy who leads a congregation or participates in a role in a parachurch ministry; such a person may also be called a Pastor, Preacher, Bishop, Chaplain or Elder. ... Warwickshire (pronounced either /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃə/ or /ˈwɔːɹɪkˌʃɪə/) is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in central England. ... Arms of the City of London and City of London School The City of London School is an independent boys school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London in London, England. ...

His arguably best known publication was The Strand Magazine, begun in 1891, in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was first able to publish his Sherlock Holmes mystery series. He also founded other magazine titles, including The Westminster Gazette (1873), Tit-Bits (1881), The Wide World Magazine (1888), and Country Life (1897). The Strand Magazine was a monthly fiction magazine founded by George Newnes. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854–1957, according to William S. Baring-Gould) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles. ...

Newnes served as a member of the British parliament representing the constituency of Newmarket (1885-1895). The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Aside from his publishing activities, Newnes built a large home in the West Country, and was a key player in the development of the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon He built an innovative cliff railway to join the two towns, and also provided the Town Hall and other amenities. Location within the British Isles Lynton is a small town in Devon, England. ... The inner harbour, Brixham, south Devon, at low tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...

Largely as a result of Sir George's efforts, the 19-mile Lynton and Barnstaple Railway opened in 1898 ostensibly to bring visitors from the mainline railways at Barnstaple. At the time, Newnes was seen as being a great benefactor to the area by bringing the railway, but in truth, he may have been less altruistic. By building the line to a narrow gauge of only 1' 11 1/2", by terminating the line some distance from both towns (and incidentally, also hidden from his own home at Hollerday Hill) and by linking the twin towns to Barnstaple, rather than Minehead, from where more people wanted to travel, it is believed that he may have been keen to preserve what was known as "The little Switzerland of England" for the wealthier classes. The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway was a narrow-gauge railway through Exmoor in North Devon, England which operated between 1898 and 1935. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Never a major revenue earner, the line closed, after passing into Southern Ownership, in 1935, largely as a result of increased competition from road transport and the private motor car.

Seventy years on, a group of enthusiasts are now recreating the atmosphere of Newnes' Railway, and steam trains are once again carrying passengers along part of the old route.

See also

• List of publishers
• List of British MPs

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External links

• The story of The Strand Magazine
• Works by George Newnes at Project Gutenberg