Edward Hulton

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For his son, the magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988), see Edward George Warris Hulton.

Edward Hulton^[1] (1869-1925) was a British newspaper publisher and Thoroughbred racehorse owner. He founded the Daily Sketch (a newspaper conservative in its views and populist in its tone) in 1909 and would, at one time or another, own Picture Post and Lilliput magazines, as well as Hulton's Girls' Stories, a magazine for children. As well as magazines, Hulton owned Edward Hulton and Co. in Manchester that published books under the Hulton Press imprint.

[edit] Thoroughbred horse racing

Edwear Hulton owned a successful Thoroughbred racing stable. With trainer Richard C. Dawson conditioning his horses, Hulton was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1916. That year his wins included the filly Fifinella capturing the Epsom Oaks and the Epsom Derby, the last horse to ever accomplish that feat. Hulton's horses won the 1919 1,000 Guineas and a second Epsom Oaks in 1924.

[edit] References

^ Though online sources such as spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk often refer to him as Edward G. Hulton or Edward George Hulton,the ascription of this middle name seems mistaken, perhaps the result of confusion with his son, the magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (1906–1988)

Sir Edward Hulton at the United Kingdoms' National Horseracing Museum

[edit] External links

Dilwyn Porter, ‘Hulton, Sir Edward, baronet (1869–1925)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2006, accessed 11 Jan 2008