Rachel Beer

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Rachel Beer (1858-1927), granddaughter of David Sassoon, was editor of The Observer (1890-1904) and owner-editor of The Sunday Times (1893-1904).

She was the first female editor of a national newspaper and the only editor of two national newspapers simultaneously. She was an inhabitant of Royal Tunbridge Wells. She was already the editor of the Observer (owned by her husband) when she acquired the Sunday Times in 1893, and edited it herself without relinquishing her role at the Observer.

Her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes her as "not considered a brilliant editor".[link]

She is buried in the enormous mausolium of her father-in-law, Julius Beer in Highgate Cemetery in London |- style="text-align: center;"

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