{{Short description|London newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Representative | school = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | motto = | type = | format = | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = [[John Murray (publisher, born 1778)|John Murray II]]<ref name="McClay2018">{{cite book|author=David McClay|title=Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Xs9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11|date=18 October 2018|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|isbn=978-1-4736-6271-1|pages=11–}}</ref> | publisher = | president = | editor = [[Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield|Benjamin Disraeli]]<ref name="BrakeDemoor2009">{{cite book|author1=Laurel Brake|author2=Marysa Demoor|title=Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVrUTUelE6YC&pg=PA322|year=2009|publisher=Academia Press|isbn=978-90-382-1340-8|pages=322–}}</ref> | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | dirvisuals = | dirvideo = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 25 January 1826 | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = 29 July 1826 | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = | publishing_country = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = }} '''''The Representative''''' was a daily newspaper published in [[London]], England.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Akel |first=Regina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bx01DQAAQBAJ&dq=info:6gcv3Rxzxb8J:scholar.google.com/&pg=PR1 |title=Benjamin Disraeli and John Murray: The Politician, the Publisher and the Representative |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-78138-307-0 |language=en}}</ref> Established on 25 January 1826,<ref name="Briggs2008">{{cite book|author=Asa Briggs|title=A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AMPAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=British Library|isbn=978-0-7123-4873-7}}</ref> it ceased to exist on 29 July 1826.<ref name="SmilesMurray1891">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Smiles|author2=John Murray|title=A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRdFAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214|year=1891|publisher=J. Murray|pages=214–}}</ref>
In autumn of 1825 the young [[Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield|Benjamin Disraeli]] convinced his father's friend, the publisher [[John Murray (publisher, born 1778)|John Murray]], that the time was ripe for a [[Canningite]] morning paper that would challenge ''[[The Times]].'' Murray agreed to supply half of the capital, with Disraeli and [[John Diston Powles]], a City speculator, each contributing one-quarter. Disraeli travelled to Chiefswood (near Melrose) to persuade [[John Gibson Lockhart]] ([[Sir Walter Scott]]'s son-in-law) to edit the paper; Lockhart declined, but agreed to serve as editor of Murray's ''[[Quarterly Review]]'' and consult on the management of the paper. Disraeli returned to London and began preparations. Lockhart's suggestion that [[William Maginn]] be employed was accepted, and he was sent to [[Paris]] as foreign correspondent, where he "drank much and wrote little." Offices were leased in the fashionable [[West End of London|West End]] on Great George Street, distant from both [[Fleet Street]] and [[Grub Street]].<ref>Blake, 29-30.</ref>
''The Representative'' was launched on 25 January 1826 and apparently never had a proper editor – Disraeli quarrelled with Murray and later satirised him in a novel, ''[[Vivian Grey]]'', as the "Marquess of Carabas." The "Rep's" politics were incoherent and advertising began slipping away almost immediately. Soon its nickname was the "[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/demirep demi-Rep]." Maginn was brought back from Paris in March to try to salvage the paper, but it expired with much finger-pointing in the summer of 1826, and was merged with the ''New Times''. Murray lost heavily (about £26,000)<ref>{{cite book|title=DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VGeDtX52QTsC&pg=PA393|year=1894|pages=393–}}</ref> and never attempted another foray into newspaper publishing. Disraeli went on to a career in politics, eventually becoming [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].<ref>Blake, 32-38.</ref>
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== References == *{{cite book | first=Robert | last=Blake | author-link=Robert Blake, Baron Blake | title=Disraeli | url=https://archive.org/details/disraeli00blak | url-access=registration | year=1967 | publisher=St. Martin's Press | location=New York}}
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