Arthur B. Sleigh

Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh[1] (c. 1821, Montreal – 1869, Chelsea) was a Canadian-born British Army officer, travel writer and the original founder of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Sleigh founded The Daily Telegraph in 1855 to air a personal grievance against Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, but its first issue was not a success and Sleigh was soon forced to sell the paper to his publisher, Joseph Moses Levy.[2]

He was the promoter of the British Columbia Overland Transit Company.[3]

Works

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Sleigh was the author of:

Notes and references

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  • P B Waite. "Sleigh, Burrows Wilcocks Arthur". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto Press. Toronto and Buffalo. 1976. Volume 9. Pages 723 and 724.
  • Norah Story. "Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh". The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. Toronto. London. New York. 1967. Reprinted with corrections. 1968. Page 767.
  • Frederic Boase. "Sleigh, Burrowes Willcocks Arthur". Modern English Biography. 1901. Volume 3. Column 604.
  • "B. W. A. Sleigh: Introduction by P. B. Waite" (1962) 42 The Dalhousie Review 55
  • "Lieut.-Col. B. W. A. Sleigh" (1869) 1 The Register and Magazine of Biography 471 to 472
  • Brian Tennyson. "1853: B W A Sleigh". Impressions of Cape Breton. Cape Breton University Press. 1986. Page 127.
  • Dennis Griffiths. "Colonel Sleigh and The Telegraph". Fleet Street: Five Hundred Years of the Press. British Library. 2006. Page 94 et seq.
  • Frances Elma Gillespie. Labor and Politics in England. 1850-1867. Octagon Books. 1966. Page 124.
  • Goodday v Sleigh (1854) 24 Law Times Reports 121
  • In re BWA Sleigh (1857) 2 Solicitors' Journal & Reporter 44
  1. ^ Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921
  2. ^ "Daily Telegraph". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2007.
  3. ^ "The Transit Company" (1862) 35 The Spectator 961 at 962 (30 August 1862); "Colonization Extraordinary" (1862) 14 The Saturday Review 339 to 341; "Colonel Sleigh and his Victims" (1862) 2 Public Opinion 628.
  4. ^ Eva Seidner. "Outcast No Longer: B. W. A. Sleigh's The Outcast Prophet". Canadian Literature. No 107: Winter 1985: The Times Between. Pages 5 to 17.
  5. ^ For other reviews of this book, see "Literature" (1847) 79 The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist 531; "Literature" (1847) 3 The Patrician 490; and [1847] The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres 213.
  6. ^ For reviews of this book see: The Athenaeum, No 1380, 8 April 1854, p 429; "Contemporary Literature" (1853) 34 Bentley's Miscellany 118; "Literary Notices" (1854) 4 Sharpe's London Magazine (New Series) 385; and "Short Notices" (1854) 1 The Rambler 198. There is a review in The Daily News.


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