Founded by Thomas Wakley.
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The Lancet
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Thomas Wakley
London County Council Thomas Wakley, 1795 - 1862, reformer and founder of "T...
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Thomas de Quincey
Born Manchester. Author, best known for "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" (1821). Was as addicted to books as much as to drink or opium, sometimes renting an extra lodging (which he could not...
1 memorial
A. Bell Booksellers
On 1 September 1773 A. Bell Booksellers published a volume of poems by Phillis Wheatley. At this time book publishers and sellers were often the same people.
1 memorial
Fenner Brockway
Pacifist, Labour MP, life peer, CND founder, free-thinker, campaigner for peace and racial equality. President of Liberation. Born Calcutta. Died Watford General Hospital, Hertfordshire. Until at l...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Peace, Politics & Administration, India
4 memorials
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount
Born New York City into an extremely wealthy family. Lived in Rome in his mid-thirties where he developed a life-long taste for the arts. On his father’s death in 1890 he built the luxury Waldorf...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Philanthropy, Property, Italy, USA
1 memorial
William Pitt Byrne
His father, Nicholas Byrne, founder of the 'Morning Post', was murdered in his office in 1833. His mother (Charlotte Dacre, author of Gothic novels) named him in honour of William Pitt who died the...
1 memorial
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