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Mr William Thomas Stead, 62, of Cambridge House, Wimbledon Park, London SW and 'Holly Bush', Hayling Island, Hampshire was a well known journalist and author.

Stead was born in Manse, Embleton, Northumbria on 5 July 1849, he was the son of Rev.

W. Stead a congregational minister and Isabella, daughter of John Jobson a Yorkshire farmer.

Birthplace of WT Stead

In 1850 the family moved to Howden-on-Tyne and until the age of 12 W.T.Stead was educated by his father.

In 1861 Stead went to Silcoates School near Wakefield. In 1863 when he was 14 he was apprenticed office boy in a merchants counting house on Quayside in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

In February 1870 he began to contribute articles to the 'Northern Echo', a liberal paper that had been recently founded in Darlington.

His work was much admired and in April 1871 he was appointed editor even though he had never been inside a newspaper office, he remained at the post until 1880, a period during which he became re