Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
Placard announcing signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Sunday 29 June 1919 | |
| Type | Sunday newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Edward Lloyd |
| Editor | William Blanchard Jerrold (1857–1884) |
| Founded | 1842 |
| Language | English |
| Ceased publication | 1931; merged into the Sunday Graphic |
| City | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Circulation | 1,000,000+ (as of 16 February 1896) |
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, called the Sunday News after 1924, was an early Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom, launched in 1842 and ceasing publication in 1931.
On 16 February 1896, Lloyd’s Weekly became the only British newspaper in the nineteenth century to sell more than a million copies. In its heyday, Lloyd's Weekly was so popular that the music hall artiste Mathilda Wood changed her name to Marie Lloyd “because everyone’s heard of Lloyd’s”.