Editing C. P. Scott (section)

===Taking ownership of ''The Manchester Guardian''===
In 1905, ''The Manchester Guardian''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> owner, Edward Taylor, died. His will provided that the trustees of his estate should give Scott first refusal on the copyright of the ''Manchester Guardian'' at £10,000, and recommended that they should offer him the offices and printing works of the paper on "moderate and reasonable terms". However, they were not required to sell it at all, and could continue to run the paper themselves "on the same lines and in the same spirit as heretofore". Furthermore, one of the trustees was a nephew of Taylor and would financially benefit from forcing up the price at which Scott could buy the paper, and another was ''The Manchester Guardian''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s manager, but faced losing his job if Scott took control. Scott was therefore forced to dig deep to buy the paper: he paid a total of £240,000, taking large loans from his sisters and from Taylor's widow (who had been his chief supporter among the trustees) to do so. Taylor's other paper, the ''[[Manchester Evening News]]'', was inherited by his nephews in the Allen family. Scott made an agreement to buy the ''MEN'' in 1922 and gained full control of it in 1929.