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 * For other uses of "The Telegraph", see The Telegraph (disambiguation).

The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as the Daily Telegraph and Courier, and is the only remaining national broadsheet-only newspaper in the UK. Owned by David and Frederick Barclay, The Telegraph has the ninth largest daily UK newspaper circulation and is the country's "other paper of record".

Founding and early history
The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future Commander-in-chief of the British Army, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of The Sunday Times, agreed to print the newspaper, and the first edition was published on June 29 1855. The paper cost 2d and was four pages long. It was not a success however, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper; his aim being to produce a cheaper newspaper than his main competitors in London, the Daily News and The Morning Post, to expand the size of the overall market.

Levy then appointed his son, Edward Levy-Lawson, and Thornton Leigh Hunt to edit the newspaper and relaunched it as The Daily Telegraph, with the slogan "the largest, best, and cheapest newspaper in the world". Hunt laid out the newspaper's principles in a memorandum sent to Levy: "We should report all striking events in science, so told that the intelligent public can understand what has happened and can see its bearing on our daily life and our future. The same principle should apply to all other events - to fashion, to new inventions, to new methods of conducting business".