It was founded in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1754[1] and first published on 2 July 1754.
[2] It was a weekly paper until it was renamed and became the daily Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, first published on Monday 2 July 1866, until 1883 when the "and Leeds Intelligencer" was dropped from the title.
[3][4] It was published under the motto of The Altar, the Throne and the Cottage and was, from the outset, a conservative newspaper.
[5] It dropped the extra 'e' from the name Leedes in 1765[6] and was recognised as being anti-Catholic and being opposed to Chartism.
[5] In 1865 it was acquired by the Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Company Limited (now Yorkshire Post Newspapers).