subs. phr. (Fleet Street).—The Morning Herald and The Standard under the proprietorship of Mr. Baldwin. [Cf. DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit, passim.]
1846. Punch, x. p. 11. It is a fact—and as the evening MRS. HARRIS says, we will stake our reputation upon it—that MRS. GAMP of the Herald did, one day last week, write, that is scold, a leader about Lord John Russell, and did not quote Sydney Smith! Ibid. (1885), 8 Aug. The Standard figures as ‘Sairey Gamp’ scolding—in allusion to a recent article in the S. abusing Lord Randolph Churchill.
