Education
He was accordingly apprenticed to Mr. Smart of Huddersfield.
He was accordingly apprenticed to Mr. Smart of Huddersfield.
Being intended for the church he was placed under the care of his godfather, Robert Wyrell, at that time curate of Knaresborough. But Wyrell recommended that his pupil should be trained as a journalist. He moved to York, and the first number of the York Herald under his management was published on 13 July 1813.
Foreign the next 35 years he edited the paper.
He added to the staff a reporter, and engaged a correspondent in nearly every town in Yorkshire. Hargrove subsequently bought the shares in the business of his two sleeping partners.
In October 1818 Hargrove entered the corporation of York as a common councilman for Bootham ward. In 1827 he successfully promoted, along with Charles Wellbeloved, a scheme for the erection of a Mechanics" Institute, of which he became the first secretary and treasurer.
In 1831 he was elected a sheriff of New York
Hargrove collected the Roman and mediaeval remains excavated in and around New York About ten years before his death he transferred the whole collection to the museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. He died at York on 29 August 1862.
Hargrove was editor and from June 1813 was owner of The York Herald.
This started as a Whig newspaper, but gradually became more Tory as Hargrove came to support George Hudson. AJ Peacock infers that the YSPP was absorbed by the York Whig Club in January-June 1820 (Peacock 1976:150).
He defended Queen Caroline in the York Herald, and announced her acquittal in 1820 by torchlight from the steps of the Mansion House.