The Daily Telegraph

=== Founding and early history ===
The ''Daily Telegraph and Courier'' was founded by Colonel [[Arthur B. Sleigh]] in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[British Army]], [[Prince George, Duke of Cambridge]].<ref name="bbc">{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3409185.stm |title=The UK's 'other paper of record' |access-date=20 December 2007 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=19 January 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002064335/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3409185.stm |archive-date=2 October 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="b1">Burnham, 1955. p. 1</ref> [[Joseph Moses Levy]], the owner of ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', agreed to print the newspaper, and the first edition was published on 29 June 1855. The paper cost 2[[Old penny sterling|d]] and was four pages long.<ref name="bbc" /> Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists:<ref name="telegraph.co.uk" />

{{blockquote|We shall be guided by a high tone of independent action.}}

However, the paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill.<ref name="b1" /> Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a cheaper newspaper than his main competitors in London, the ''[[Daily News (London)|Daily News]]'' and ''[[The Morning Post]]'', to expand the size of the overall market.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} Levy appointed his son, [[Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham|Edward Levy-Lawson, Lord Burnham]], and [[Thornton Leigh Hunt]] to edit the newspaper. Lord Burnham relaunched the paper as ''The Daily Telegraph'', with the slogan "the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world".<ref>Burnham, 1955. p. 5</ref> Hunt laid out the newspaper's principles in a memorandum sent to Levy: "We should report all striking events in science, so told that the intelligent public can understand what has happened and can see its bearing on our daily life and our future. The same principle should apply to all other events—to fashion, to new inventions, to new methods of conducting business".<ref>Burnham, 1955. p. 6</ref>

In 1876, [[Jules Verne]] published his novel ''[[Michael Strogoff]]'', whose plot takes place during a fictional uprising and war in [[Siberia]]. Verne included among the book's characters a war correspondent of ''The Daily Telegraph'', named Harry Blount—who is depicted as an exceptionally dedicated, resourceful and brave journalist, taking great personal risks to follow closely the ongoing war and bring accurate news of it to ''The Telegraph''{{'}}s readership, ahead of competing papers.<ref>Verne, Jules. [http://www.classicauthors.net/verne/Strogoff/Strogoff17.html "Michael Strogoff Book 1"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122035446/http://classicauthors.net/Verne/Strogoff/Strogoff17.html |date=22 November 2010 }}, 1997–2010, ''Great Literature Online''. Retrieved 28 April 2010.</ref>

[[File:New Daily Telegraph Offices Fleet Street ILN 1882.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.25|In 1882 ''The Daily Telegraph'' moved to new [[Fleet Street]] premises, which were pictured in the ''[[Illustrated London News]]''.]]