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Iliffe and Yattendon
This page considers the Iliffe family of the UK and their
media interests.
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introduction
The Iliffe family expanded from printing and book publishing
into magazines and newspapers, famously giving Northcliffe
a start as editor of a bicycling journal and acquiring
a stake in the Daily Telegraph in partnership
with the Berry brothers.
Iliffe's printing and magazine interests were acquired
by IPC (absorbed by Maxwell)
in the second half of last century and the family has
sold its major newspapers such as the Birmingham Post
& Mail (now part of Trinity
Mirror).
history
Edward Mauger Iliffe (1877-1960) joined the family's Coventry-based
printing operations in 1894. His father William Iliffe
had founded the Midland Evening Telegraph in
1891 and Autocar magazine in 1895.
Edward formed Allied Newspapers with the Berry brothers
in 1923. Allied bought the Evening Standard,
Daily Sketch, Sunday Herald and 11 other
titles from Sir Edward Hulton
for £6 million. In 1928 it acquired the Daily
Telegraph from Lord Burnham.
Iliffe was knighted in 1922 and served as conservative
MP for Tamworth from 1923 to 1929. He became a baron in
1933. The partnership with the Berrys through Allied Newspapers
was disslved in 1937. Iliffe retained The lucrative Kelly's
Directories in addition to newspaper titles that the family
had held outside Allied. In the 1940s it acquired the
BMP group, centred on the Birmingham Post & Mail.
The family's extensive printing operations were disposed
of to International Publishing Corporation (part of Reed
and then the failed Maxwell
group).
The Post was sold to Ralph Ingersoll
II in 1987 for £60 million (with an MBO in 1991
before acquisition by Midland Independent Newspapers in
1994, acquired by Mirror for
£305 million in 1997).
The current Lord Iliffe has been reported as the 64th
richest person in the UK (est £150 million in 2002).
The family holds the 3,650 hectare Yattendon Estate (Berkshire),
along with some 1,600 hectares in Warwickshire and over
10,000 hectares in Scotland.
current holdings
The family's Yattendon Investment Trust plc encompasses
newspaper publishing, agriculture and property development.
The newspaper portfolio includes evening daily newspapers
and some 20 paid-for and free weekly titles in Cambridgeshire,
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Suffolk, Essex and Hertfordshire.
Titles under the Iliffe News & Media subsidiary include
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Ashbourne
News Telegraph
Burton & South Derbyshire Advertiser
Burton Mail
Cambridge Evening News
Cambridge Town Crier
Cambridge Weekly News
Dunmow Observer
Ely Weekly News
Harlow Star
Haverhill Weekly News
Hertfordshire Mercury
Hertfordshire Star
Herts and Essex Observer
Huntingdon & St Ives Weekly News
Newmarket Weekly News
Royston & Buntingford Mercury
Royston Weekly News
Saffron Walden Observer
Saffron Walden Weekly News
St Neots Weekly News
Staffordshire Newsletter
Stansted Observer
Stevenage Mercury
Uttoxeter Advertiser
The family is the dominant shareholder in UK commercial
television broadcaster Channel TV (150,000 viewers).
studies
There has been no major academic study of the Iliffes.
A perspective is provided by Stephen Koss's two volume
The Rise & Fall of the Political Press in Britain
(London: Hamish Hamilton 1984).
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