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When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.Lord Northcliffe
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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.Lord Northcliffe
3 Quotes & Sayings By Lord Northcliffe
Lord Northcliffe was born in 1853, the son of his parents' friend, Edward Cadbury. He was brought up in a large household at Wiltshire, England, and received an excellent education, which included a stint at Rugby School. It was at Rugby that he became proficient in English literature. He would later claim that "everything I have ever done I owe to Rugby." On the advice of his father, he also took up writing
His first published work was a collection of humorous sketches that appeared in the Tatler, but it was The World's Greatest Books that brought him his first real success. His next major success was with an article on the Great Exhibition in The Illustrated London News. He married Florence Farrar in 1877, and they had two sons and two daughters.