George died in 1879, and was succeeded as editor by his brother, Edward Reynolds.
[7] After Edward's death in 1894, the paper was bought by Henry Dalziel[7] and, in 1924, was retitled Reynold's Illustrated News.
After the left-wing journalist H. N. Brailsford wrote a series of articles in Reynold's News critical of the Moscow show trials, the paper received hundreds of letters both supporting Brailsford and criticising him.
[5] During the 1950s, it began to make a loss, and was relaunched in 1962 as a tabloid, the Sunday Citizen, but the final issue was published on 18 June 1967.
Robertson led a colourful private life and was involved in the fatal car crash that killed Vickie Martin, a protégée of Stephen Ward, in 1955.