The Owl: a Wednesday journal of politics and society was a satirical society newspaper published in London from 1864 to 1870. Irregularly published, but sometimes fortnightly, it cost 6d., was Tory in politics and consisted of a mix of satire and London society gossip.
The Owl was founded by Morning Post editor Algernon Borthwick, together with Evelyn Ashley, Lord Wharncliffe (1827–99) and James Archibald Stuart-Wortley.H. C. G. Matthew, ‘Borthwick, Algernon, Baron Glenesk (1830–1908)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 January 2008
The Conservative MP Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington was joint editor of the paper from 1864 to 1868.ODNB Contributors included the architect Arthur Ashpitel (1807–69), Disraeli's private secretary Montagu Corry, Laurence Oliphant, and Henry Drummond Wolff. They also included Mortimer Collins,'Early Days of Mortimer Collins', Dublin University Magazine, 90 (1877), p. 340ff Lord Houghton, Ralph Bernal Osborne, George Otto Trevelyan, and Thomas Gibson Bowles.Reginald Lucas, 'Borthwick, Sir Algernon, first Baron Glenesk (1830–1908)', Dictionary of National Biography, 1912.
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