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Anglo-Irish newspaper editor and proprietor
Michael James Whitty
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Duncormick, Ireland
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Liverpool, United Kingdom
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78 years
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Michael James Whitty (born 1795, Duncormick, County Wexford – died 10 June 1873, Princes Park, Liverpool) was an Irish-born English newspaper editor and proprietor.
Whitty was a former Chief Constable for Liverpool, who had campaigned for the abolition of the Stamp Act under which newspapers were taxed.
When the abolition took place, Whitty began publishing the Daily Post at one penny per copy, undercutting the incumbent best-selling Liverpudlian newspaper, the Liverpool Mercury.
Whitty is buried in Anfield Cemetery. The journalist Edward Michael Whitty was his son.
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