James Johnstone (publisher)

James Johnstone was born in London, the son of a Bankruptcy Court messenger, who he succeeded in 1842.

In 1861 he became head of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, & Co., managers in chancery, bankrupts' accountants, and public auditors.

With the help of publisher John Maxwell, for a while his partner in the new enterprise, Johnstone re-issued the Standard as a morning paper on 29 June 1857, reducing its price to twopence and doubling its size to eight large pages.

On 4 February 1858 the price of the Standard was reduced to a penny and an evening issue of the paper revived on 11 June 1860.

The Evening Standard was reformatted 1 January 1870 under the editorship of Charles Williams and in that year reached a circulation figure of 100,000 copies per day.