Arthur B. Sleigh Explained

Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh^[1] (c. 1821, Montreal – 1869, Chelsea) was a Canadian-born British Army officer, travel writer and the original founder of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Sleigh founded The Daily Telegraph in 1855 to air a personal grievance against Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, but its first issue was not a success and Sleigh was soon forced to sell the paper to his publisher, Joseph Moses Levy.^[2]

He was the promoter of the British Columbia Overland Transit Company.^[3]

Works

Sleigh was the author of:

• The Outcast Prophet (1847)^{[4] [5]}
• Pine Forests and Hackmatack Clearings (1853)^[6]

Notes and references

• P B Waite. "Sleigh, Burrows Wilcocks Arthur". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto Press. Toronto and Buffalo. 1976. Volume 9. Pages 723 and 724.
• Norah Story. "Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh". The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. Toronto. London. New York. 1967. Reprinted with corrections. 1968. Page 767.
• Frederic Boase. "Sleigh, Burrowes Willcocks Arthur". Modern English Biography. 1901. Volume 3. Column 604.
• "B. W. A. Sleigh: Introduction by P. B. Waite" (1962) 42 The Dalhousie Review 55
• "Lieut.-Col. B. W. A. Sleigh" (1869) 1 The Register and Magazine of Biography 471 to 472
• Brian Tennyson. "1853: B W A Sleigh". Impressions of Cape Breton. Cape Breton University Press. 1986. Page 127.
• Dennis Griffiths. "Colonel Sleigh and The Telegraph". Fleet Street: Five Hundred Years of the Press. British Library. 2006. Page 94 et seq.
• Frances Elma Gillespie. Labor and Politics in England. 1850-1867. Octagon Books. 1966. Page 124.
• Goodday v Sleigh (1854) 24 Law Times Reports 121
• In re BWA Sleigh (1857) 2 Solicitors' Journal & Reporter 44

Notes and References

1. Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921
2. Web site: Daily Telegraph . 21 December 2007 . Spartacus Educational . https://web.archive.org/web/20071229090827/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jtelegraph.htm . 29 December 2007 . dead .
3. "The Transit Company" (1862) 35 The Spectator 961 at 962 (30 August 1862); "Colonization Extraordinary" (1862) 14 The Saturday Review 339 to 341; "Colonel Sleigh and his Victims" (1862) 2 Public Opinion 628.
4. Eva Seidner. "Outcast No Longer: B. W. A. Sleigh's The Outcast Prophet". Canadian Literature. No 107: Winter 1985: The Times Between. Pages 5 to 17.
5. For other reviews of this book, see "Literature" (1847) 79 The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist 531; "Literatute" (1847) 3 The Patrician 490; and [1847] The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres 213.
6. For reviews of this book see: The Athenaeum, No 1380, 8 April 1854, p 429; "Contemporary Literature" (1853) 34 Bentley's Miscellany 118; "Literary Notices" (1854) 4 Sharpe's London Magazine (New Series) 385; and "Short Notices" (1854) 1 The Rambler 198. There is a review in The Daily News.