Hampshire Advertiser

The Hampshire Advertiser was a British local, broadsheet newspaper, based in Southampton, Hampshire. It ran from 1823^[1] until 1940.^[2]

Edward Langdon Oke (1775–1840), a corn merchant in the older part of the city (High Street), was credited with establishing the Hampshire Advertiser (previously the "Herald").^[3] Oke, originally from Sherborne, was elected to the Town Council of Southampton and appointed Consul at Southampton for the Kingdom of Hanover by Prince Regent George IV in 1818.^[4]