Arthur B. Sleigh
Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh, also known as Burrowes Willcocks Arthur Sleigh 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.
He was the promoter of the British [Columbia Overland Transit Company].
Works
Sleigh was the author of:- The Outcast Prophet
- Pine [Forests and Hackmatack Clearings]