In 1861 "The Spectator" was bought by a journalist, Meredith Townsend, who soon went into partnership with Richard Holt Hutton, a theologian whose friend William Gladstone later called him "the first critic of the nineteenth century".
In 1861 "The Spectator" was bought by a journalist, Meredith Townsend, for £2000. Townsend soon went into partnership with Richard Holt Hutton, a theologian whose friend William Gladstone later called him "the first critic of the nineteenth century".