Hampshire Advertiser Explained

The Hampshire Advertiser was a British local, broadsheet newspaper, based in Southampton, Hampshire. It ran from 1823[1] until 1940.[2]

Edward Langdon Oke (1775 - 1840), a corn merchant in the older part of the city (High Street), was credited with establishing the Hampshire Advertiser (previously the "Herald").[3] Oke, originally from Sherborne, was elected to the Town Council of Southampton and appointed Consul at Southampton for the Kingdom of Hanover by Prince Regent George IV in 1818.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www3.hants.gov.uk/archives/hals-collections/hals-newspapers.htm Hampshire Archive
  2. http://sotonopedia.wikidot.com/page-browse:hampshire-advertiser Sotonopedia
  3. News: . 26 September 1840 . Death of Edward Langdon Oke . Hampshire Advertiser . Southampton, UK .
  4. . Notice of the appointment of Edward Langdon Oke, esq. to be the Consul of Southampton for the Kingdom of Hanover, in the room of Thomas Bedingfield Day, Esq . The European Magazine, and London Review . 73 . 261 . London . Stephen Jones (Editor) . 3 March 1818 .

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