William Pitt Byrne
British newspaper editor and proprietor of The Morning Post
About William Pitt Byrne
Lived 1806 – 1861 (aged 54–55). William Pitt Byrne was a British journalist.
William Pitt Byrne (c. 1806 – 6 or 8 April 1861) was a British newspaper editor and proprietor of The Morning Post.
He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a BA and M.A. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1835 and called to the bar in 1839 but never practised law.
His mother was the Gothic novelist Charlotte Dacre, who had three children with Nicholas: William Pitt Byrne (born 1806), Charles (born 1807) and Mary (born 1809); however the children were not baptised until 1811 and Nicholas and Charlotte did not marry until 1 July 1815.
Obituary in The Times, 10 April 1861, cited in Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses.
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British newspaper editor and proprietor of The Morning Post
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