Bruce Lyttelton Richmond

Who was Bruce Lyttelton Richmond?

Sir Bruce Lyttelton Richmond was a British editor and journalist who was the editor of the weekly literary review the Times Literary Supplement for 35 years from a few months after its founding in 1902, to his retirement in 1937. His period of editorship is the longest to date, and during his time well over 1600 issues were produced with numerous reviews contributed by many literary figures. Richmond's obituary in The Times in 1964 described him as "The Architect of the Times Literary Supplement", while the authors of the introduction to the TLS Centenary Archive stated in 2001 that Richmond had "created and sustained one of the most durable of modern British institutions".