Sydney Elliott

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Sydney Elliott
Born
Sydney Robert Elliott

(1902-08-31)August 31, 1902
Newspaper editor
MovementCo-operative
RelativesBen 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

Elliott became editor of the Herald in November 1953.[1] In 1957, the Trades Union Congress rescinded its editorial control of the paper to Odhams Press, and Elliott left the paper.[5] He was then engaged by Tim Hewat to research a brief for a television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

  1. ^ a b c d "Our London Correspondence", The Manchester Guardian, 28 November 1953
  2. ^ "Gone and (largely) forgotten Archived 2012-07-28 at archive.today", British Journalism Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006, pp.50–52
  3. ^ Charles Powell, "Man in the Moon", The Manchester Guardian, 9 July 1937
  4. ^ Tom Buchanan, The Spanish Civil War and the British labour movement, p.120
  5. Manchester Guardian
    , 18 September 1957
  6. ^ Peter Godard et al, Public issue television, pp.12, 17
Media offices
Preceded by
J. Crawley
Editor of Reynold's News
1929–1941
Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of the Evening Standard
1943–1945
Succeeded by
Preceded by Editor of the
Daily Herald

1953–1957
Succeeded by