Henry Lascelles Carr

Carr became editor of the Western Mail and later its owner, before buying the London-based News of the World.

[3] The 1871 Census records Carr as living in Roath while married to Mary Ann Carr, who had been born in County Westmeath, Ireland; they had a single child, Loftus Lascelles, a son aged six, who had been born in Dublin.

By 1881, Carr had remarried, to Helen sister of Sir Charles James Jackson, and the 1881 Census records that they had three daughters.

[3] As well as his work in the press, Carr served as a town councillor of Cardiff (for the West ward)[1] and as a Justice of the Peace.

[6] On the night of Saturday 3 June 1893 the premises of the Western Mail burnt to the ground, but Carr managed to set up and office and printing presses overnight in nearby Newport, which allowed the paper to report its own fire in the Monday morning edition.