Entries for the tag ‘Leeds Intelligencer’
One of the first regional newspapers in the country, founded 1754, renamed the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer in 1866, Yorkshire Post in 1883; conservative, anti-Catholic, anti-Chartist. 
- 27 August 1754: The (Tory) Leeds Intelligencer calls on Holbeckers to accept the appointment by Samuel Kirshaw, Vicar of Leeds, of a new curate, Richard Fawcett Snr, to St Catherine’s Chapel
- 5 November 1754: A French fencing master turns highwayman on Rothwell Haigh (Leeds)
- 10 August 1756: Leeds “gentlemen” burn an effigy of Admiral John Byng, scapegoat for the Whig government’s failure to save Minorca (and the Mediterranean theatre) from the French during the Seven Years’ War
- 30 November 1756: A Leeds brewery advertises its March beer, made with fresh Holbeck water, for wholesale in time for Christmas
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