Edward George Warris Hulton

For his father, the newspaper proprietor and racehorse owner born in 1869, see Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. For his grandfather, the newspaper proprietor born in 1838, see Edward Hulton (senior).

Edward George Warris Hulton
Born	(1906-11-29)29 November 1906 Harrogate, England
Died	London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Magazine publisher
Known for	Pioneer of photojournalism Founder of Hulton Archive
Spouse(s)	Kira Goudime-Levkovitsch (m. 1927) Princess Nika Yourievitch (m. 1946)
Children	3
Relatives	Edward Hulton (grandfather) Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet (father) Sir Jocelyn Stevens (nephew) Serge Yourievitch (father-in-law)

Sir Edward George Warris Hulton (29 November 1906 – 8 October 1988) was a British magazine publisher and writer.

Early life

Hulton was the illegitimate son of Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet, a newspaper publisher and racehorse owner originally from Manchester, and his second wife, the music hall artist Millicent Warris, also known by the stage name Millie Lindon. Educated at Harrow School, Hulton went up to Brasenose College, Oxford in 1925 but left in December 1926 without a degree.

Business and politics

Hulton founded the Hulton Press in 1937, buying Farmers' Weekly. The Hulton Press went on to publish Leader Magazine, Eagle and Girl for children, Lilliput and the Picture Post.

During World War II, Hulton was one of the members of the 1941 Committee, a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence not generally involved with a political party but who came together in 1941 to press for more efficient production to enhance the war effort. Hulton helped fund the Home Guard training school at Osterley Park, organising a private supply of weapons from the United States. Though he had stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative candidate at Leek in 1929, his 1943 book The New Age supported a mixed welfare-state economy and he welcomed Attlee's 1945 government.

Hulton discontinued the Picture Post in 1957 and sold the Hulton Press to Odhams two years later. He was knighted for services to journalism in 1957.

Hulton photographic archive

The photographic archive of Picture Post became an important historical documentary resource. It was set up by Hulton as a semi-independent operation, officially incorporated as the Hulton Press Library in 1947. It was bought by the BBC in 1958 and incorporated into the Radio Times photo archive, which was then sold to Brian Deutsch in 1988. In 1996 the Hulton Picture Collection was bought for £8.6m by Getty Images, who has retained the Hulton Archive as a featured resource within its large holdings.

Personal life

Hulton was married twice, first to Kira Goudime-Levkovitsch in 1927, and then later in 1946 to Princess Nika Yourievitch. Together Yourievitch and Hulton had two sons and one daughter, named Edward Alexander Sergius Hulton, Cosmo Philip Paul Hulton and Elizabeth Frances Helen Hulton. The marriage between Yourievitch and Hulton was dissolved in 1966, though the two lived together again for the last nine years of Hulton's life before he died on 8 October 1988.

External links

• Works by or about Edward George Warris Hulton in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Archival material relating to Edward George Warris Hulton listed at the UK National Archives
• [1] -- All the Best is a complete history of Picture Post Magazine (1938-57) in online and paperback forms. Picture Post was likely the greatest achievement of the Sir Edward George Warris Hulton's publishing empire, including being Britain's most popular magazine during WWII. "All the Best" author David Joseph Marcou covers Sir Edward's role in the editorial fortunes of his magazine, from his signing up PP founding editor Stefan Lorant to his sacking of Lorant's successor, 10-year editor Sir Tom Hopkinson. Many experts conclude Hopkinson's dismissal marked the beginning of the end of Picture Post, though Marcou's history covers it more intricately than that.