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Born February 23, 1776 • Battersea • England
Died July 28, 1847 (aged 71) • London • England
Notable Family Members father John Walter I
John Walter, I
English publisher
Viscount Northcliffe, 1918.
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe
British publisher
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
British newspaper editor and proprietor
John Thaddeus Delane
British journalist
Joseph Moses Levy
British journalist
John Walter III
English publisher
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
Robert Maxwell, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
British publisher
Lord Beaverbrook, 1941.
Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
British politician and journalist
Sir William Haley
British editor
George Geoffrey Dawson
British journalist
Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson
British publisher
William Hone, detail of an oil painting by George Patten in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Hone
English journalist
Charles Frederic Moberly Bell
British journalist
Astor, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron
John Jacob Astor
British journalist [1886-1971]
Sir Denis Hamilton
British newspaper editor
Benjamin Harris
British journalist
Val McCalla
British publisher
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
William Morris
British artist and author