Wesley Guard Lyttle
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Wesley Guard Lyttle was an Irish
newspaper publisher, writer and editor.
, County Down
. He worked as a junior reporter, schoolteacher, and editor, before starting, in 1880,
the North Down and Bangor Gazette, a strong Liberal and Home Rule
paper. He afterwards owned and edited the North Down Herald.
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
newspaper publisher, writer and editor.
Life
He was born in NewtownardsNewtownards
Newtownards is a large town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. Newtownards is the largest town in the Borough of Ards. According to the 2001 Census, it has a population of 27,821 people in...
, County Down
County Down
-Cities:*Belfast *Newry -Large towns:*Dundonald*Newtownards*Bangor-Medium towns:...
. He worked as a junior reporter, schoolteacher, and editor, before starting, in 1880,
the North Down and Bangor Gazette, a strong Liberal and Home Rule
Home rule
Home rule is the power of a constituent part of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of governance within its own administrative area that have been devolved to it by the central government....
paper. He afterwards owned and edited the North Down Herald.
Select works
- Robins's Readings. Eight Vols.
- Sons of the Sod: A Tale of County Down. 1886.
- Betsy GrayBetsy GrayBetsy Gray was an Ulster-Scots Presbyterian peasant girl from outside Lisburn in Co. Antrim in what is today Northern Ireland who was killed as part of the 1798 Rebellion of the United Irishmen...
. 1888 - The Smugglers of Strangford Lough.
- Daft Eddie. 1914.
- Two Irish Arthurian Romances. 1908.