Leonard Rees
British newspaper editor
Leonard Rees (25 December 1856 – 19 January 1932) was a British newspaper editor.
Born in Ipswich, Rees attended Ipswich School, before becoming a journalist on a local newspaper. He worked in Northampton, Nottingham and Manchester, before in 1878 moving to London. In 1897, he became the music editor of the Sunday Times, and then in 1901, he was appointed as editor of the newspaper. He held the post until his death in 1932, and under his editorship, the readership of the newspaper increased.[1][2]
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Preceded by Rachel Beer | Editor of The Sunday Times 1901–1932 | Succeeded by William W. Hadley |
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The Times
- 1785: John Walter
- 1803: John Walter, 2nd
- 1812: John Stoddart
- 1817: Thomas Barnes
- 1841: John Thadeus Delane
- 1877: Thomas Chenery
- 1884: George Earle Buckle
- 1912: Geoffrey Dawson
- 1919: George Sydney Freeman
- 1919: Wickham Steed
- 1923: Geoffrey Dawson
- 1941: Robert Barrington-Ward
- 1948: William Francis Casey
- 1952: William Haley
- 1967: William Rees-Mogg
- 1981: Harold Evans
- 1982: Charles Douglas-Home
- 1985: Charles Wilson
- 1990: Simon Jenkins
- 1992: Peter Stothard
- 2002: Robert Thomson
- 2007: James Harding
- 2013: John Witherow
- 2022: Tony Gallagher
Sunday Times
- 1821: Henry White
- 1822: Daniel Whittle Harvey
- 1824: Clarkson
- 1828: Thomas Gaspey
- 1835: Unknown
- 1850: Edward Tyrrel Smith
- 1858: E. W. Scale
- 1867: Edmund Scale
- 1874: Joseph Hatton
- 1881: Neville Bruce
- 1887: Phil Robinson
- 1890: Arthur William à Beckett
- 1893: Rachel Beer
- 1901: Leonard Rees
- 1932: William W. Hadley
- 1950: Harry Hodson
- 1961: Denis Hamilton
- 1967: Harold Evans
- 1981: Frank Giles
- 1983: Andrew Neil
- 1995: John Witherow
- 2013: Martin Ivens
- 2020: Emma Tucker
- 2023: Ben Taylor
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