Founded 5 August 1840 | Editor Francis Lochée ISSN 1838-9767 | |
Owner(s) Francis Lochée, William Tanner | ||
The Inquirer was a newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia between 5 August 1840 and 27 June 1855, by Francis Lochée. It was a competitor to the Perth Gazette.
The Inquirer was established by Francis Lochée and William Tanner, with the first issue published on 5 August 1840. Lochée became sole proprietor and editor in June 1843, when Tanner, dissatisfied with its progress, withdrew his support. Lochée retained ownership of the paper until May 1847 when he sold the operation to the paper's former compositor Edmund Stirling. In July 1855, The Inquirer merged with The Commercial News and Shipping Gazette, owned by Robert John Sholl, to form The Inquirer & Commercial News, which was published between 1855 and 1901. Sholl had been the editor of The Inquirer between 1849 and early 1855, but left to establish a new weekly, The Commercial News and Shipping Gazette, in February 1855, with financial support from George Leake.