On this day

March 19, 1859

cover page of Westmorland Gazette published on March 19, 1859

Westmorland Gazette

Issues

3,142

Pages

21,384

The Westmorland Gazette was founded in Kendal in 1818 by a group of Tories in support of the two sitting Conservative Members of Parliament for Westmorland, Viscount Lowther, later Earl of Lonsdale and his brother Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lowther. It was established in opposition to the Whig Westmorland Advertiser and Kendal Chronicle (founded in 1811) which promoted civil, religious commercial and political freedom.

The Gazette circulated throughout the Lake District and the poet William Wordsworth was one of its original backers, retaining a long relationship with the paper. Other notable contributors were Beatrix Potter and writer, art critic, and social philanthropist John Ruskin.

For this newspaper, we have the following titles in, or planned for, our digital archive:

  • 1818–1962 The Westmorland Gazette
  • 1818–1962 The Westmorland Gazette

This newspaper is published by Newsquest in Kendal, Westmorland, England. It was digitised and first made available on the British Newspaper Archive in Mar 27, 2013 . The latest issues were added in Feb 8, 2023.

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