Background
Hulton was born on 3 March 1869 in Hulme, Manchester. He was the second son of Edward Hulton (1838–1904), a Manchester newspaper publisher, and his wife Mary (née Mosley).
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Edward Edward Hulton
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He was raised as a Roman Catholic in the Manchester district of Whalley Range and was educated at the Street Bede"s Commercial College from 1878 to 1885.
Career
In 1921 he was awarded a baronetcy, of Downside in the parish of Leatherhead in Surrey, for public services during the First World War, which became extinct on his death in 1925. Hulton"s father had founded the ing Chronicle in 1871, the Athletic News in 1875 and the Sunday Chronicle in 1885. Hulton subsequently founded the Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1897 (renamed Evening Chronicle in 1914), the Daily Dispatch in 1900 and the Daily Sketch tabloid in 1909.
Edward Hulton and Company, of London and Manchester, a private company of proprietors, printers and publishers which owned a large group of newspapers was sold for £6 million when Hulton retired due to illness in 1923.
The newspapers sold, which were subsequently controlled by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere, included: ing Chronicle, Athletic News,Sunday Chronicle, Empire News, Evening Standard, Daily Sketch, Sunday Herald, Daily Dispatch and Evening Chronicle. Most of these newspapers were sold again soon afterwards, to the Allied consortium formed in 1924 (renamed Kemsley in 1943 and bought by Roy Thomson in 1959).
The newspapers Hulton founded have since merged with other newspapers. In 1955 the Daily Dispatch merged with the News Chronicle, which was subsequently absorbed into the Daily Mail in 1960.
The Evening Chronicle merged with the Manchester Evening News in 1963.
The Daily Sketch merged with the Daily Mail in 1971. Hulton owned a successful thoroughbred horse racing stable. With Richard Dawson training his horses, he was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1916.
That year his wins included the filly Fifinella capturing the Epsom Oaks and the Epsom Derby double.
He also registered his racing colours under the pseudonym "Mr. Lytham". Hulton was also the chairman of Manchester City F.C. in the early 1900s.
Hulton died on 23 May 1925 at the age of 56 after a prolonged illness in Downside, and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery in southwest London. The Netto value of his estate was £2,222,471.
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Edward"s son, Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988), published magazines including Picture Post and Lilliput, and was a member of the 1941 Committee.
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