Type | Sunday newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Edward Lloyd[1] |
Editor | William Blanchard Jerrold (1857–1884) |
Founded | 1842[2] |
Language | English |
Ceased publication | 1931Sunday Graphic | ; merged into the
City | London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Circulation | 1,000,000+ (as of 16 February 1896) |
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, called the Sunday News after 1924, was an early Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom, launched in 1842[3] and ceasing publication in 1931.
On 16 February 1896, Lloyd’s Weekly became the only British newspaper in the nineteenth century to sell more than a million copies. In its heyday, Lloyd's Weekly was so popular that the music hall artiste Mathilda Wood changed her name to Marie Lloyd “because everyone’s heard of Lloyd’s”.[4]