biography
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| lived:
| (1804–77)
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| biography:
| Australian newspaper proprietor, born in England, UK. He ran a newspaper in Warwickshire, but went to Sydney in 1838 after being bankrupted by a defamation writ. In 1841, with Charles Kemp, he bought the Sydney Herald, changing its name in 1842 to The Sydney Morning Herald. In 1853, after Kemp's retirement, John Fairfax & Sons became responsible for the newspaper, and it became an influential, widely read journal. The dynasty he founded continued until one of his descendents, Warwick Geoffrey Oswald Fairfax (1960– ), privatized the company in 1987, and took out loans which eventually sent it into receivership. John Fairfax Ltd was sold in 1991 to the Tourang consortium. |
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