Everything about Rachel Beer totally explained
Rachel Beer (1858-1927), granddaughter of
David Sassoon, was editor of
The Observer (1891-1904) and owner-editor of
The Sunday Times (1893-1904).
She was the first female editor of a national newspaper and the only editor of two national newspapers simultaneously. She was an inhabitant of
Royal Tunbridge Wells. She was already the editor of the
Observer (owned by her husband) when she acquired the
Sunday Times in 1893, and edited it herself without relinquishing her role at the
Observer.
Under her control the paper achieved one of its greatest exclusives: the admission by
Count Esterhazy that he'd forged the letters that condemned innocent Jewish officer
Captain Dreyfus to
Devil's Island. The story provoked an international outcry and led to the release and pardon of Dreyfus and court martial of Esterhazy.
Her entry in the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes her as "not considered a brilliant editor".
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She was the aunt of the poet
Siegfried Sassoon. Siegfried's father, Alfred, was Rachel's brother, but had been cut off by his family for marrying outside the Jewish faith. Rachel had done likewise, but in her case the action was forgiveable because of her gender. She left a generous legacy to her nephew Siegfried, enabling him to purchase
Heytesbury House in Wiltshire, where he spent the rest of his life.
Her husband, Frederick Beer is buried in the enormous mausoleum of her father-in-law, Julius Beer, in Highgate Cemetery in London. Rachel's family however, stepped in to prevent her burial in that bastion of Anglican religion. She was interred in the Sassoon family mausoleum in Brighton.
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