Charles Diamond (17 November 1858 – 19 February 1934) was an Irish newspaper entrepreneur and Labour Party politician.
Early life
Charles Diamond was born on 17 November 1858 in Derry, Ireland. He later emigrated to England, settling in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by 1878.
Career
Diamond worked as a journalist. In 1884, he launched The Irish Tribune and in 1887 acquired the Glasgow Observer as well as The Catholic News, which he both amalgamated into The Catholic Herald, of which he was editor in charge until his death, aged 75, in 1934. In 1888 he founded the Weekly Herald, Catholic Educator and Manchester Citizen newspapers. In 1899, he bought the Aberdeen Catholic Herald. Throughout his life he established 37 weekly newspapers.
Diamond was an outspoken and controversial figure, described by one of his successors as "the kind of a man who made a good many enemies". On 8 January 1920 he was arrested and charged with publication of an article in the Catholic Herald that allegedly encouraged assassination in Ireland.
He was sentenced to six months imprisonment for the article, which was titled "Killing No Murder".
Diamond entered the British House of Commons as an Anti-Parnellite Nationalist in 1892, sitting for North Monaghan the following three years. He contested Peckham in the 1918 general election and Rotherhithe in the 1922 general election, as a Labour Party candidate, however was unsuccessful. Extensive travels led him through Southern Africa, America and Southern Europe.
Personal life and death
Diamond married Jeannie, only daughter of Jeremiah McCarthy, in 1882. He died on 19 February 1934.
Footnotes
- ^ "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Monaghan North". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Swift and Gilley, p. 173
- ^ Who's Who, 1926. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1926. p. 790.
- "The Universe - History of the Catholic press in the UK". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
- Swift and Gilley, p. 175
- Swift and Gilley, p. 176
- ^ "Charles Diamond, Editor, 75, Is Dead". The New York Times. 20 August 1934. p. 24.
- Debrett, John (1922). Arthur G. M. Hesilrige (ed.). Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son Ltd. p. 191.
References
- Roger Swift; Sheridan Gilley, eds. (1985). The Irish in the Victorian City. Beckenham, Kent: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7099-3333-9.
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded byPat O'Brien | Member of Parliament for North Monaghan 1892 – 1895 |
Succeeded byDaniel MacAleese |
- 1858 births
- 1934 deaths
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Monaghan constituencies (1801–1922)
- UK MPs 1892–1895
- Irish journalists
- English newspaper founders
- Irish newspaper founders
- Politicians from Derry (city)
- Politicians from Newcastle upon Tyne
- 19th-century British newspaper founders
- 20th-century British newspaper founders
- Anti-Parnellite MPs
- Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates