Harold Harmsworth

1868–1940 Died in Bermuda

British press baron Lord Rothermere, who became a hero in Hungary by demanding revision of the Trianon borders in the Daily Mail

With his elder brother Alfred, later Viscount Northcliffe, he founded the Daily Mail in 1896 and the Daily Mirror in 1903, and on his brother’s death in 1922 acquired his controlling interest in Associated Newspapers. Made Baron Rothermere in 1914 and Viscount Rothermere in 1919, he served for a time during the First World War as President of the Air Council. His Daily Mail editorial “Hungary’s Place in the Sun” of 21 June 1927 called for the return to Hungary of large territories lost under the Treaty of Trianon; he became a national hero in Hungary, and over 1.2 million Hungarians signed a letter of thanks. In the 1930s he praised Hitler and in 1934 backed the British Union of Fascists. He died in Bermuda in 1940.