Old photograph of Edmund Hodgson Yates, born on 3 July 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was the actor and theatre manager Frederick Henry Yates. Edmund was educated at Highgate School in London, England from 1840 to 1846. His first career was a clerk in the General Post Office, before entering journalism, working on the Court Journal and then Daily News. Yates was perhaps best known as proprietor and editor of The World society newspaper, which he established with Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, which he edited under the pen name of " Atlas ", and which for a time was edited by Alexander Meyrick Broadley. The World, which was perceived as a newspaper chronicling upper class London Society, was a pioneer in personal journalism, such as the interview, which was later adopted by newspapers generally. In 1884 he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for libelling Lord Lonsdale, yet in later life enjoyed a second career as a county magistrate. He was a friend of Charles Dickens, and in the 1850s, Yates lived at No. 43 Doughty Street, London, close to Dickens's former home at No. 48. He died on 20 May 1894.
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