Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet (27 October 1847 – 18 December 1924) was Managing Director of "The Illustrated London News", appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine, it appeared weekly until which year?
1971
Sir William Ingram, 1st Baronet
Sir William James Ingram, 1st Baronet (27 October 1847 – 18 December 1924) was Managing Director of "The Illustrated London News" and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1878 and 1895.
The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
 Founded by Herbert Ingram, it appeared weekly until 1971, then less frequently thereafter, and ceased publication in 2003.
 The company continues today as Illustrated London News Ltd, a publishing, content and digital agency in London, which holds the publication and business archives of the magazine.
Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood
Elias was born in Birmingham, the youngest of the seven children of David Elias, a Whitby a jet salesman.
 After moving to London where his father had set up a newspaper business, Elias began delivering newspapers in Hammersmith.
 He left school at the age of 13 to take up a job as a junior clerk at Odhams Bros, then a small printing firm.
 He worked his way up to become managing director and eventually chairman of the firm, which after a merger with "John Bull" in 1920 took the name Odhams Press Ltd.
 He was also managing director and chairman of the company that controlled the "Illustrated London News".
 Elias was raised to the peerage as Baron Southwood, of Fernhurst in the County of Sussex, in 1937.
 In 1944 he was appointed Chief Whip of the Labour Party in the House of Lords, which he remained until the following year.
 In January 1946 he was made Viscount Southwood, of Fernhurst in the County of Sussex. Ingram baronets
The Ingram Baronetcy, of Swineshead Abbey in the County of Lincoln, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
 It was created on 9 August 1893 for William Ingram.
 He was Managing Director of "The Illustrated London News" and Liberal Member of Parliament for Boston.
 Ingram was the son of Herbert Ingram, the founder of "The Illustrated London News", who also represented Boston in the House of Commons. Herbert Ingram
Herbert Ingram (27 May 1811 – 8 September 1860) was a British journalist and politician.
 He is considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of "The Illustrated London News", the first illustrated magazine.
 He was a Liberal politician who favoured social reform and represented Boston for four years until his early death in a shipping accident. The Sketch
The Sketch was a British illustrated weekly journal, which focused on high society and the aristocracy.
 It ran for 2,989 issues between 1 February 1893 and 17 June 1959.
 It was published by the Illustrated London News Company and was primarily a society magazine with regular features on royalty and the aristocracy, theatre, cinema and art studies.
 It had a high photographic content with many studies of society ladies and their children as well as regular layouts of point to point racing meetings and similar events. Melton Prior
Melton Prior (12 September 1845 – 2 November 1910), was an English artist and war correspondent for "The Illustrated London News" from the early 1870s until 1904.
 Prior was one of the leading illustrators of late Victorian Britain, noted for his ability to quickly sketch scenes.
 His pencil sketches were sent back to London where they were re-drawn by studio artists and engraved on wood-blocks for printing in the Saturday issues of the "Illustrated London News".
 In addition to covering conflicts around the world, he also traveled on a number of Royal tours including accompanying the Prince of Wales to Canada in 1901. Baron Rotherwick
Baron Rotherwick, of Tylney in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
 It was created on 8 June 1939 for the shipping magnate and Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baronet.
 He had previously represented Portsmouth South in the House of Commons.
 Before his elevation to the peerage, he had been created a baronet, of Tylney in the County of Southampton, on 29 January 1924.
 Cayzer was the fifth son of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet, of Gartmore and the younger brother of Sir August Cayzer, 1st Baronet, of Roffey Park.
 s of 2010 the titles are held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1996.
 He is one of the 92 elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act of 1999, and sits on the Conservative benches.
 Lord Rotherwick also succeeded to the Cayzer Baronetcy of Gartmore on the death of Sir James Arthur Cayzer, 5th Baronet on 27 February 2012. Bruce Ingram
Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram MC DLit (5 May 1877 – 8 January 1963) was a publishing entrepreneur and philanthropist.
 He was the editor of "The English Illustrated Magazine" (September 1899 – September 1901), "The Sketch", and "The Illustrated London News" from 1900 to 1963.
 Ingram was credited with introducing greater use of photography in the News and introducing the Rembrandt Regalio process which enabled faster printing of the paper. The Sphere (newspaper)
The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home and, later, The Sphere: The Empire's Illustrated Weekly, was a British newspaper, published by London Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. weekly from 27 January 1900 until the closure of the paper on 27 June 1964; the first issue came out at the height of the Boer War and was no doubt a product of that conflict and the public appetite for images.
 At the time, it was in direct competition with "The Graphic" and "Illustrated London News", and evidence of this rivalry can be seen in the latter's publication shortly after of a new illustrated paper entitled "The Spear" in an attempt to confuse readers.
 During World War I, the weekly issues were called 'war numbers' and over two hundred appeared between 1914 and 1919.
 In all, it totalled 3,343 issues, plus a special supplement issued in December 1964, entitled "Winston Churchill: A Memorial Tribute"