Arthur B. Sleigh

Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh^[1] (c. 1821, Montreal – 1869, Chelsea) was a Canadian-born British Army officer, travel writer and the original founder of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Sleigh founded The Daily Telegraph in 1855 to air a personal grievance against Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, but its first issue was not a success and Sleigh was soon forced to sell the paper to his publisher, Joseph Moses Levy.^[2]

He was the promoter of the British Columbia Overland Transit Company.^[3]

Works

Sleigh was the author of:

• The Outcast Prophet (1847)^[4][5]
• Pine Forests and Hackmatack Clearings (1853)^[6]

Notes and references

• P B Waite. "Sleigh, Burrows Wilcocks Arthur". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto Press. Toronto and Buffalo. 1976. Volume 9. Pages 723 and 724.
• Norah Story. "Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh". The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. Toronto. London. New York. 1967. Reprinted with corrections. 1968. Page 767.
• Frederic Boase. "Sleigh, Burrowes Willcocks Arthur". Modern English Biography. 1901. Volume 3. Column 604.
• "B. W. A. Sleigh: Introduction by P. B. Waite" (1962) 42 The Dalhousie Review 55
• "Lieut.-Col. B. W. A. Sleigh" (1869) 1 The Register and Magazine of Biography 471 to 472
• Brian Tennyson. "1853: B W A Sleigh". Impressions of Cape Breton. Cape Breton University Press. 1986. Page 127.
• Dennis Griffiths. "Colonel Sleigh and The Telegraph". Fleet Street: Five Hundred Years of the Press. British Library. 2006. Page 94 et seq.
• Frances Elma Gillespie. Labor and Politics in England. 1850-1867. Octagon Books. 1966. Page 124.
• Goodday v Sleigh (1854) 24 Law Times Reports 121
• In re BWA Sleigh (1857) 2 Solicitors' Journal & Reporter 44

1. Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921
2. "Daily Telegraph". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2007.
3. "The Transit Company" (1862) 35 The Spectator 961 at 962 (30 August 1862); "Colonization Extraordinary" (1862) 14 The Saturday Review 339 to 341; "Colonel Sleigh and his Victims" (1862) 2 Public Opinion 628.
4. Eva Seidner. "Outcast No Longer: B. W. A. Sleigh's The Outcast Prophet". Canadian Literature. No 107: Winter 1985: The Times Between. Pages 5 to 17.
5. For other reviews of this book, see "Literature" (1847) 79 The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist 531; "Literature" (1847) 3 The Patrician 490; and [1847] The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres 213.
6. For reviews of this book see: The Athenaeum, No 1380, 8 April 1854, p 429; "Contemporary Literature" (1853) 34 Bentley's Miscellany 118; "Literary Notices" (1854) 4 Sharpe's London Magazine (New Series) 385; and "Short Notices" (1854) 1 The Rambler 198. There is a review in The Daily News.