{{Short description|Irish newspaper entrepreneur and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} '''Charles Diamond''' (17 November 1858 – 19 February 1934)<ref name="Rayment"/> was an Irish newspaper entrepreneur and Labour Party politician.
==Early life== Charles Diamond was born on 17 November 1858 in Derry, Ireland. He later emigrated to England, settling in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by 1878.<ref>Swift and Gilley, p. 173</ref>
==Career== Diamond worked as a journalist.<ref name="Who's Who"/> In 1884, he launched ''The Irish Tribune'' and in 1887 acquired the ''Glasgow Observer'' as well as ''The Catholic News'', which he both amalgamated into ''The Catholic Herald'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totalcatholic.com/tc/index.php?/20091204752/history-of-the-uk-catholic-press/history-of-the-uk-catholic-press.html|title=The Universe - History of the Catholic press in the UK|accessdate=10 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719150209/http://www.totalcatholic.com/tc/index.php?%2F20091204752%2Fhistory-of-the-uk-catholic-press%2Fhistory-of-the-uk-catholic-press.html|archive-date=19 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> of which he was editor in charge until his death, aged 75, in 1934. In 1888 he founded the ''Weekly Herald'', ''Catholic Educator'' and ''Manchester Citizen'' newspapers.<ref>Swift and Gilley, p. 175</ref> In 1899, he bought the ''Aberdeen Catholic Herald''.<ref>Swift and Gilley, p. 176</ref> Throughout his life he established 37 weekly newspapers.<ref name = "Who's Who"/>
Diamond was an outspoken and controversial figure, described by one of his successors as "the kind of a man who made a good many enemies".{{fact|date=July 2025}}
On 8 January 1920 he was arrested and charged with publication of an article in the ''Catholic Herald'' that allegedly encouraged assassination in Ireland. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment for the article, which was titled "Killing No Murder".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=20 August 1934 |title=Charles Diamond, Editor, 75, Is Dead |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1934/02/20/94494127.html?pageNumber=24 |work=The New York Times |pages=24}}</ref>
Diamond entered the British House of Commons as an Anti-Parnellite Nationalist in 1892, sitting for North Monaghan the following three years.<ref name = "Rayment">{{cite web|url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons3.htm|title=Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Monaghan North|accessdate=10 December 2009|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231651/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Mcommons3.htm|archive-date=10 August 2009}}</ref> He contested Peckham in the 1918 general election and Rotherhithe in the 1922 general election, as a Labour Party candidate, but was unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite book|last=Debrett|first=John|title=Debrett's House of Commons and Judicial Bench|publisher=Dean & Son Ltd.|location=London|year=1922|editor=Arthur G. M. Hesilrige|pages=191}}</ref>
Extensive travels led him through Southern Africa, America and Southern Europe.<ref name = "Who's Who">{{cite book|title=Who's Who, 1926|publisher=Adam & Charles Black Ltd.|location=London|year=1926|pages=790}}</ref>
==Personal life and death== Diamond married Jeannie, only daughter of Jeremiah McCarthy, in 1882.<ref name = "Who's Who"/> He died on 19 February 1934.<ref name=":0" />
==Footnotes== {{reflist|2}}
==References== *{{cite book|editor=Roger Swift |editor2=Sheridan Gilley|title=The Irish in the Victorian City|ISBN=0-7099-3333-9|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=Beckenham, Kent|year=1985|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/irishinvictorian0000unse}}
==External links== *{{hansard-contribs|mr-charles-diamond| Charles Diamond}}
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