Periodical
The Westminster Gazette (London, UK)
3 February 1914
A Liberal evening paper published in London between 1893 and 1928,
The Westminster Gazette
exerted a powerful influence on British politics despite having a clubland readership of only a few thousand.
Alfred Mond's purchase of the paper from
George Newnes
in 1908 marked the beginning of a terminal decline. Despite being relaunched in 1925 as a large-circulation morning paper, the
Gazette continued to run at a loss until it was merged with its leading Liberal rival,
The Daily News, in 1928. Edited by
E. T. Cook (1893-1896),
J. A. Spender (1896-1921), and J. B. Hobman (1921-1928), it published contributions by
Antony Hope,
Saki, and
Rupert Brooke.