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Encyclopedia > Rachel Beer

Rachel Beer (1858-1927), granddaughter of David Sassoon, was editor of The Observer (1890-1904) and owner-editor of The Sunday Times (1893-1904). David Sassoon (1792-1864) was a philanthropist and a prominent Mumbai businessman. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...


She was the first female editor of a national newspaper and the only editor of two national newspapers simultaneously. She was an inhabitant of Royal Tunbridge Wells. She was already the editor of the Observer (owned by her husband) when she acquired the Sunday Times in 1893, and edited it herself without relinquishing her role at the Observer. Location within the British Isles Royal Tunbridge Wells (often called simply Tunbridge Wells) is a Wealden town in west Kent in England, just north of the border with East Sussex. ...


Her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes her as "not considered a brilliant editor".[1]


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