[1] Alaric Alexander Watts was the paper's first editor, but remained in the position for only a year.
[2] The newspaper circulation area was in Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Shropshire, Cumberland, Staffordshire, and North Wales.
It provided Hugh Stowell, rector of St Stephen's Church in Salford, with a platform to "wage war" on any group dissenting from the orthodox views of the Anglican Church, such as Catholics and Jews, but also including Unitarians, whom Stowell doubted even had the right to call themselves Christians.
[1] The daily Manchester Evening Mail, established by Thomas Sowler junior in 1874 and closed in 1902, was a companion publication and one of several newspapers which began around that time with the intention of providing a less highbrow alternative to their longer-established stablemates.
[5] In 1905, Lord Northcliffe purchased the Manchester Courier and installed James Nicol Dunn as editor "with a big fanfare of trumpets and a large ceremonial lunch".