Sydney Elliott
Sydney Elliott | |
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Born | Sydney Robert Elliott August 31, 1902 Newspaper editor |
Movement | Co-operative |
Relatives | Ben Summerskill (grandson) |
Sydney Robert Elliott (31 August 1902 – 9 October 1987) was a British
newspaper editor
.
Biography
Born on
co-operative movement. In the late 1920s, he moved to Manchester to become editor of the monthly co-operative journal The Millgate Monthly.[1] In 1929, the Sunday newspaper Reynold's News was bought by the Co-operative Press,[2] and Elliott was appointed as its editor. He worked on updating the appearance of the paper, and appointed H.N. Brailsford and Hamilton Fyfe as columnists.[1] In 1937, he wrote a comprehensive account of the movement, England: Cradle of Co-operation,[3] while he also launched the United Peace Alliance to campaign against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. This soon became the focus of unsuccessful attempts by communists and left-wing members of the Labour Party to create a popular front.[4]
In 1941, Elliott moved to
Daily Herald in 1952.[1]
Elliott became editor of the Herald in November 1953.[1] In 1957, the Trades Union Congress rescinded its editorial control of the paper to Odhams Press, and Elliott left the paper.[5] He was then engaged by Tim Hewat to research a brief for a television documentary strand on ITV, to be based on social issues. This led to the Searchlight series, a precursor of World in Action, on which Elliott worked as a researcher.[6]
His grandson, Ben Summerskill, is a former chief executive of Stonewall, the LGBT equality organisation.
References
- ^ a b c d "Our London Correspondence", The Manchester Guardian, 28 November 1953
- ^ "Gone and (largely) forgotten Archived 2012-07-28 at archive.today", British Journalism Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006, pp.50–52
- ^ Charles Powell, "Man in the Moon", The Manchester Guardian, 9 July 1937
- ^ Tom Buchanan, The Spanish Civil War and the British labour movement, p.120
- Manchester Guardian, 18 September 1957
- ^ Peter Godard et al, Public issue television, pp.12, 17