About Leonard Rees
Lived 1856 – 1932 (aged 75–76). Leonard Rees was a newspaper editor.
Leonard Rees (25 December 1856 – 19 January 1932) was a British newspaper editor.
Born in Ipswich, Rees attended Ipswich School, before becoming a journalist on a local newspaper. He worked in Northampton, Nottingham and Manchester, before in 1878 moving to London. In 1897, he became the music editor of the Sunday Times, and then in 1901, he was appointed as editor of the newspaper. He held the post until his death in 1932, and under his editorship, the readership of the newspaper increased.
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British newspaper editor
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Leonard Rees was born in 1856.
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Leonard Rees died in 1932.
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