<P> Most textbooks date the establishment of the `` Publicity Bureau '' in 1900 as the start of the modern public relations ( PR ) profession . Of course , there were many early forms of public influence and communications management in history . Basil Clarke is considered the founder of the public relations profession in Britain with his establishment of Editorial Services in 1924 . Academic Noel Turnball points out that systematic PR was employed in Britain first by religious evangelicals and Victorian reformers , especially opponents of slavery . In each case the early promoters focused on their particular movement and were not for hire more generally . </P>
who dropped out of harvard and became the person many refer to as the founder of public relations
Basil Clarke