Joseph Hatton

[1][2] He was editor of many English publications including The Sunday Times from 1874 to 1881 and then served as a correspondent for several American periodicals.

He retired from the company in 1874 and worked as a London correspondent for the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Kreuz-Zeitung.

[3] Hatton travelled to America in 1881 and began to write about the country and during the tour he covered the assassination of James A. Garfield in the Standard, scooping other English newspapers.

[4] After the death of his son Frank Hatton in Borneo, he wrote a biographical sketch and published his travel memoirs in 1886.

[3] Joseph Hatton died in St John's Wood, Middlesex at the age of 70 and was buried in Marylebone cemetery.