William Thomas Stead

William Thomas Stead , 1849-1912, English journalist. From 1883 to 1889 he edited the Pall Mall Gazette and in 1890 founded the Review of Reviews, establishing similar publications in the United States (1891) and Australia (1892). He pioneered in modern journalistic methods in England, was an advocate of reform in the British navy, and championed child welfare and social legislation. In later years he was deeply interested in psychical research. He lost his life on the Titanic. Among his numerous works are If Christ Came to Chicago (1893), The Americanization of the World (1902), and Peers or People (1907).

Stead, W. T. ( William Thomas Stead) (1849–1912), assistant editor of the Pall Mall Gazette in 1880 and editor 1883–8, in which capacity he initiated new and influential political and social movements. He achieved wide notoriety for his ‘Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’ (1885) exposing sexual vice, which led to Parliament raising the age of consent to 16 years. He founded the Review of Reviews in 1890. He was drowned in the Titanic disaster.