Coventry Herald

The Coventry Herald, Coventry Herald and Observer or the Coventry Herald and Free Press was a newspaper that was established in 1808 by Alderman Nathaniel Merridew in Coventry, England and ran in print until 1940.[1][2] The newspaper's control was given to Alderman Nathanial's third son Henry upon his death.[3] Originally just the Coventry Observer, a political disagreement in 1828 with the Liberal party led to a competing newspaper the Coventry Observer to be formed in 1828.[1] These papers were later merged into a single paper under Henry in 1830.[1] Successive owners include John Turner (1842), and Charles Bray (1846)[1][2] While owned by Bray, the newspaper published some of the earliest prose writing of George Eliot.[4]

The newspaper changed names again in 1863, after merging with the Free Press and Midland Express in 1863.[5] In 1914 they absorbed the Coventry Times.[2] The paper stopped publication in 1940.[2] During the 1860s, it was owned by Matthew Vincent, who claimed that he turned down an offer of £30,000 from Joseph Chamberlain to purchase the it, because Chamberlain would have changed the political alignment of the newspaper.[6]

Historical copies of the Coventry Herald, dating back to 1824, are available to search and view in digitised form at The British Newspaper Archive. [7]

References
  1. Poole, Benjamin (1852). "Newspapers". The History of Coventry with an Appendix, Including a Chronology of Local Occurrences, Etc. D. Lewin. pp. 133–134.
  2. "More information about Coventry Herald". British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 8 July 2014. Note: the information can be accessed by clicking on the (i) icon.
  3. "Obituary-Mr. John Merridew". The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 213: 639–641. 1862.
  4. McCormick, Kathleen (Summer 1986). "George Eliot's Earliest Prose: The Coventry "Herald" and the Coventry Fiction". Victorian Periodicals Review. 19 (2): 57–62. JSTOR 20082202.
  5. Arthur Miller Kaye Miller, ed. (1905). Catalogue of printed books in the library of the British Museum: Supplement. Newspapers published in Great Britain and Ireland. 1801-1900. W. Clowes and Sons. p. 205. Coventry Herald.
  6. Alexander, Joseph Aloysius (1928). The Life of George Chaffey. Macmillan. pp. 154–155.
  7. Digitised copies of the Coventry Herald


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