Background
PRESSLY, David Leith was born on July 15, 1855 in Stuartfield, Aberdeenshire. Father, carpenter and crofter.
PRESSLY, David Leith was born on July 15, 1855 in Stuartfield, Aberdeenshire. Father, carpenter and crofter.
Studied at Old Deer Par. School; Aberdeen schools. Reporter in Aberdeen, 1872.
Was connected with Free Press and People’s Journal till 1880. Went out to Cape Colony. Was on staff of Cape Times.
Reported Rhodes’s first speech as member of Cape Parliament. Returned to United Kingdom and spent 14 years in Ulster as editor Londonderry Sentinel, and leader-writer on Evening Telegraph, Belfast.
Editor of Aberdeen Daily Journal and Aberdeen Evening Express, 1894-1902. Managing editor of East of England Newspaper Company’s series of daily and weekly papers, Norwich, 1902-1903. Editor Yorkshire Herald and allied newspapers, York.
Painting, sketching, gardening.