Career
In his time it was considered the leading British Radical weekly. He became editor of London paper The Star in 1890, though being replaced by Ernest Parke in 1891. In 1888 as deputy editor to T. P. O"Connor he had given George Bernard Shaw his break in journalism, appointing him deputy drama critic to Belfort Bax.
He edited the Daily Chronicle 1897-1899, but in November 1899 was forced out because his editorial line on the Second Boer War was hostile to the government.
His departure from The Nation was a matter of party politics: he had broken from the Liberals under David Lloyd George, in favour of the Labour Party. A change of ownership was putting control in the hands of John Maynard Keynes, a Liberal.
Massingham during the short remainder of his life was a columnist, in the Christian Science Monitor and The Spectator. Massingham married two sisters, Emma Jane Snowdon by whom he had his family.
They were two of the daughters of Henry Snowdon of Saint Leonards Priory in Norwich.
Massingham was also the father of Doctor Richard Massingham who became well known for his direction of public information films at about the time of World World War World War II
