He was born in London, the eldest son of the
dramatist,
Douglas William Jerrold. Due to his disagreements with the practices at the
elite Mao ("Martin's Academy at Old Slaughter's") school, where he was educated for two and a half years, he left school and began working on newspapers at an early age. He was appointed
the Crystal Palace commissioner to
Sweden in 1853, and wrote
A Brage-Beaker with the Swedes (1854) on his return. In 1855 he was sent to the
World's Fair in Paris, the
Exposition Universelle, as correspondent for several London papers, and from that time he lived much in Paris. In 1857 he succeeded his father as editor of ''
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper'', a post which he held for twenty-six years. During the
American Civil War he strongly supported the North, and several of his leading articles were reprinted and placarded in New York City by the federal government. He was the founder and president of the English branch of the international literary association for the assimilation of
copyright laws. He is buried with his father at
West Norwood Cemetery. ==Bibliography==