C. P. Scott

Charles Prestwich Scott, usually cited as C. P. Scott, was a British journalist, publisher and politician, born in Bath, Somerset, in 1846 and dying in 1932. He edited The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, from 1872 until 1929 and owned it from 1907 until his death. He first joined the paper as its London editor in 1871 through his cousin John Taylor, and the paper's founder, John Edward Taylor, was his uncle. His 1907 purchase of the paper led to the Manchester Guardian Ltd., the ancestor of Guardian Media Group. He was also a Liberal Member of Parliament, and under his editorship the paper swung to the left after the Liberal split of 1886 and backed William Ewart Gladstone on Irish Home Rule.