Daily Telegraph first published

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Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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The very first issue of the

Daily Telegraph and Courier

, published on 29 June 1855, was not a great success. Printed primarily to allow Colonel Arthur Sleigh to air a grievance against the Duke of Cambridge, the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, it failed to even recoup its costs. However, the proprietor of the

Sunday Times

, Joseph Moses Levy, believed that there was an opening for a cheaper daily newspaper, since the current bestseller,

The Times

, cost ten pence, while

The Daily News

and

The Morning Post

cost five pence. Appointing his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, and Thornton Leigh Hunt, as its two first editors, their mandate was to develop a cheap but intelligent newspaper to outsell all its rivals, and before the end of the year, they were doing just that.

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