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Henry Woodfall (1713–1769)
Henry Woodfall may refer to: * Henry Sampson Woodfall Henry Sampson Woodfall (21 June 173912 December 1805) was an English printer and journalist. He was born and lived in London. Biography Woodfall's grandfather Henry Woodfall (c. 1686–1747), was the author of the ballad ''Darby and Joan'' ... (1739–1805), English printer and journalist * Henry Dick Woodfall (1796–1869), English businessman {{hndis, Woodfall, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Sampson Woodfall
Henry Sampson Woodfall (21 June 173912 December 1805) was an English printer and journalist. He was born and lived in London. Biography Woodfall's grandfather Henry Woodfall (c. 1686–1747), was the author of the ballad ''Darby and Joan'', for which John Darby and his wife were the originals: the elder Woodfall had been apprenticed in 1701 to Darby, a printer in Bartholomew Close in the Little Britain, London, Little Britain area of London, who died in 1730. Woodfall's grandfather printed many of the works of Alexander Pope. Woodfall's uncle George was a bookseller in Charing Cross. His father, Henry Woodfall (1713–1769), was the printer of the newspaper the ''Public Advertiser'', and Woodfall was apprenticeship, apprenticed to his father. At the age of nineteen, Woodfall took over the control of the newspaper. In it appeared, between 21 January 1769 and 21 January 1772, the famous letters of Junius (writer), Junius. In December 1769 Woodfall published a "Letter to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |