About Ernest Perris
Lived 1874 – 1961 (aged 86–87). Ernest Perris was a newspaper editor.
Ernest Alfred Perris (1874 – 6 October 1961) was a British newspaper editor.
Born in Liverpool, the son of Henry Woods Perris, Ernest entered journalism, and in 1893 founded the London News Agency. From 1899 he worked in editorial positions at various London newspapers. In 1904, he was appointed as news editor of the Daily Chronicle, establishing it as the main rival to the Daily Mail. While in the post, he financed a film of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. In 1914, he appointed his older brother, George Herbert Perris, as its correspondent in France.
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British newspaper editor
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Ernest Perris was born in 1874.
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Ernest Perris died in 1961.
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