William Henry Simmonds (c. 1860 – 19 September 1934) was an English newspaperman whose varied career took him finally to Tasmania, Australia, where he was editor of the Hobart Mercury for 18 years.
He returned to England, where he was invited by W. T. Stead, to take the post of news editor with The Pall Mall Gazette, and subsequently London manager of the Cape Times.
[1] He also worked as editor of various trade magazines and with the "Encyclopaedia and Great Books" section of Amalgamated Press, a "house" of the Harmsworth publishing empire.
In 1918 he was selected as member of an Australian press delegation, sponsored by the Imperial government, which toured America, Great Britain, France and Canada, to gain an appreciation of the British war effort.
[1] Simmonds died at his home in Bellerive, Tasmania after suffering a heart attack on the Hobart wharf[2] and subsequent brief illness.