Samuel Vincent Winter

Samuel Vincent "Stormy" Winter (23 March 1843 – 16 October 1904) was a newspaper proprietor and editor in the colony of Victoria, Australia.

Michael O'Grady, he founded The Advocate, a newspaper oriented towards the Irish Catholic community, and of which he was manager and editor for several years, when he handed it over to his brother Joseph.

He then led a consortium to purchase The Herald (Melbourne), which had fallen on hard times, and became its business manager, then also editor in 1874.

In 1881 he founded The Sportsman, which he sold in 1893[3] In 1891 The Weekly Times was incorporated into The Herald, and in 1894 the company took over the Evening Standard.

He laid the foundation stones of the South Richmond Free Library in 1877 and of the Swan Street east bridge over the Yarra River in 1881.