the first day of the Battle of the Ancre, aged 21, while serving with the Hawke Bn. 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, Royal Naval Reserve. He is buried in the Ancre British Cemetery at Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme. Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (29 May 1898 – 12 July 1978) Viscountess Rothermere, as she had become, died on 16 March 1937. Bibliography Rothermere, Harold S.H., Warnings and Predictions, Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1939 Viscount Rothermere, My Fight to Rearm Britain, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1939 References Sources Further reading Bingham, Adrian. "‘Stop the Flapper Vote Folly’: Lord Rothermere, the Daily Mail, and the Equalization of the Franchise 1927–28." Twentieth century British history 13.1 (2002): 17-37. Bingham, Adrian, and Martin Conboy. Tabloid Century: The Popular Press in Britain, 1896 to the present (2015) Brendon, Piers. The life and death of the press barons (Atheneum Books, 1983). Olmsted, Kathryn S. The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler'' (Yale UP, 2022)online also online review External links Page at Spartacus 1868 births 1940 deaths British anti-communists British newspaper chain founders Daily Mail and General Trust people Harold Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at St Marylebone Grammar School 1 Barons created by George V Viscounts created by George V British fascists Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History