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Percy Elland

British newspaper editor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7167327 ↗
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Percy Elland (7 October 1908–3 March 1960) was an English newspaper editor.

Born in Doncaster, Elland attended Doncaster Grammar School before entering journalism. In 1952, he became editor of the Evening Standard, serving until 1959, but making few changes. He then became a director and managing editor of the Standard, before dying the following year.

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“Percy Elland” enters the record as british newspaper editor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Percy, Elland and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1960, 1952, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-10-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Percy, Elland and British.
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This entry incorporates text from “Percy Elland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.