Rothermere

[roth-er-meer]

noun

1. 1st Viscount. Harold Sidney Harmsworth.

Rothermere

/ ˈrɒðəˌmɪə /

noun

1. Viscount . title of Harold Sidney Harmsworth . 1868–1940, British newspaper magnate

Example Sentences

St John Harmsworth – brother of newspaper magnates Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere – made Perrier a byword for mineral water across the British empire.

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Lord Rothermere, the controlling shareholder of the Daily Mail, is thought to have refreshed interest in the auction having previously walked away citing inevitable competition objections from regulators and a new Labour government.

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Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and General Trust told the FT earlier this month that it was interested in the Telegraph group, which fell into the hands of receivers this summer.

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To some press critics, however, the disappearance of the Johnson story underlines an unhealthy closeness between the government and the powerful pro-Tory newspaper proprietors in Britain, which include Mr. Murdoch and The Mail’s publisher, Jonathan Harmsworth, also known as the Fourth Viscount Rothermere.

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A spokesman for the Daily Mail, which is owned by the Rothermere family, did not reply to a request for comment.

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