Editing The London Trumpet (section)

==Founding history==
[[Image:New Daily Telegraph Offices Fleet Street ILN 1882.jpg|thumb|275px|In 1882 the Daily Telegraph moved to new [[Fleet Street]] premises, which were pictured in the ''[[Illustrated London News]]''.]]
The ''Daily Telegraph'' was established on [[June 29]], [[1855]] by [[Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh]]. He controlled it only briefly before selling it to his printer, [[Joseph Moses Levy]], father of the 1st [[Baron Burnham]]. Levy appointed his sons as editors and relaunched the paper on [[September 17]]. His most significant and successful move was reducing the price of the paper to a penny, the first of the [[penny press]]. Within twelve months the new paper was outselling ''[[The Times]]''.

In 1908, [[Kaiser]] [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] gave a controversial [http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/dailytel.html interview] to ''The Daily Telegraph'' which severely damaged Anglo-German relations and added to international tension leading to [[World War I]].

In 1928 the son of the 1st [[Baron Burnham]] sold it to the 1st [[Viscount Camrose]], in partnership with his brother [[Viscount Kemsley]] and the 1st [[Baron Iliffe]]. Both the Camrose (Berry) and Burnham (Levy-Lawson) families remained involved in management until [[Conrad Black]] took control in 1986.

In 1937 the newspaper absorbed ''[[The Morning Post]]'' which traditionally espoused a [[conservatism|conservative]] position and sold predominantly amongst the retired officer class. Originally [[William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose|William Ewart Berry]], 1st [[Viscount Camrose]] bought ''[[The Morning Post]]'' with the intention of publishing it alongside the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', but poor sales of the former led him to merge the two. For some years the paper was retitled ''The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post'' before it reverted to just ''The Daily Telegraph''.