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British Pathe newsreel clip: 

 

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=8699

 

Mr T.P. O’Connor, “Father of the House”, famous journalist and film censor is visited at home 

 

 

 T.P.’s Weekly, 29 January 1904

  

 

An autograph signed letter from T. P. to Mr. Henniker, Dec. 1892, on headed ‘Sunday Sun’ notepaper, saying a review of his book will appear next week and asking if he has a new book on hands for which he (T.P.) might make an offer for serial rights.

  

  

1923 Pathe newsreel clip:Irish journalist and nationalist leader Thomas Power O’Connor MP. Various shots of O’Connor in his seventies talking to other politicians and sitting in a row in a posed group shot on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament in London.

   

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=80280

 

Launched on 14 November 1902, T.P.’s Weekly was the latest publishing venture of Radical M.P. T. P. O’Connor, founder of London’s halfpenny The Star and the Penny Weekly M.A.P. (Mainly About People) (1898) and Weekly Sun (1891). Priced one penny, T.P.’s Weekly promised “to bring to many thousands a love of letters”, securing to this end contributions from a distinguished array of writers: George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and G. K. Chesterton. In practice, O’Connor delegated most of the running of the magazine to Wilfred Whitten (whose byline “John O’London” supplied the title of another contemporary literary magazine, John O’London’s Weekly). Whitten was succeeded in 1914 by Holbrook Jackson, under whose editorship the journal changed name in 1916 to To-Day. Shortly after the journal folded in January 1917, it was succeeded by another, unrelated magazine bearing the same name, which continued until 1924.