Daniel Whittle Harvey
Daniel Whittle Harvey (10 January 1786 – 24 February 1863) was a
Radical English politician who founded The Sunday Times newspaper and was the first Commissioner of the City of London Police
.
Biography
Harvey trained as a lawyer, and became a Fellow of the
Whig government. In 1839 he was one of the MPs who took part in the conference with William Lovett's London Working Men's Association from which the Chartists
emerged.
In 1821, Harvey founded a Sunday newspaper, The New Observer, which the following year adopted its present title, The Sunday Times. On one occasion he was imprisoned when the paper libelled the King, George IV.
In 1839, he was appointed Registrar of the
Metropolitan Public Carriages, becoming the chief regulator of the taxi trade in London. Later the same year, the City of London Police
was re-organised, and Harvey relinquished his seat in Parliament to become its first Commissioner; he retained the post until 1863.
References
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885" (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Victoria County History of Essex, online at www.british-history.ac.uk
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Daniel Whittle Harvey
- Portraits of Daniel Whittle Harvey at the National Portrait Gallery, London
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