Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood

Julius Salter Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood (5 January 1873 – 10 April 1946), was a British newspaper proprietor, Labour politician and hereditary peer.

He rose from humble origins to become head of Odhams Press, Britain's largest newspaper and printing combine.

He left school at the age of 13 and tried various jobs before going to work as an office-boy at Odhams Bros, then a small printing firm in Hart Street employing about twenty people.

[6] Elias worked his way up to become managing director and eventually chairman of the firm, which after a merger with John Bull in 1920 took the name Odhams Press Ltd.

[8] In 1906, Elias married Alice Louise Collard, daughter of Charles Stone Collard, head of a London firm of chartered accountants based at Queen Victoria Street, near the Lord Mayor of London's official residence, Mansion House.