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]

^ Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892-1921
^ "Daily Telegraph". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2007.
^ "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.

[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.

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