Founding The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the
Glasgow Advertiser. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the
treaties of Versailles reached Mennons via the
Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed.
The Herald, therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two. The story was, however, only carried on the back page. Mennons, using the larger of two fonts available to him, put it in the space reserved for late news.
First sale and renaming In 1802, Mennons sold the newspaper to Benjamin Mathie and James McNayr, former owner of the
Glasgow Courier, which along with the
Mercury, was one of two papers Mennons had come to Glasgow to challenge. Mennons' son Thomas retained an interest in the company.
George Outram From 1836 to 1964,
The Glasgow Herald was owned by
George Outram & Co. becoming one of the first daily newspapers in Scotland in 1858. In 1988, the publication moved to offices in Albion Street in Glasgow into the former
Scottish Daily Express building. It is now based in a purpose-built building in Renfield Street, Glasgow. One of the most traumatic episodes in the history of
The Glasgow Herald was the battle for control and ownership of the paper in 1964. Two multi-millionaires,
The 1st Baron Fraser of Allander and
The 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, whose newspaper empire included
The Glasgow Heralds archrival,
The Scotsman, fought for control of the title for 52 days. Lord Fraser of Allander won. The paper's then editor, James Holburn, was a "disapproving onlooker". The
Labour Party condemned the battle as "big business at its worst". The newspaper changed its name to
The Herald on 3 February 1992, dropping Glasgow from its title, but not its masthead. That same year the title was bought by Caledonia Newspaper Publishing & Glasgow. In 1996, it was purchased by
Scottish Television (STV; later called the Scottish Media Group). the newspaper along with its related publications, the
Evening Times and
Sunday Herald (now defunct), were owned by the
Newsquest media group, part of
Gannett. ==Notable people==