WOODFALL, HENRY SAMPSON (173.9-1805)

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WOODFALL, HENRY SAMPSON (173.9-1805) , English printer and journalist, was born in London on the 21St of June 1739. His father,

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Woodf all, was the printer of the newspaper the Public Advertiser, and the author of the ballad Darby and Joan, for which his son's employer, John Darby, and his wife, were the originals. H. S. Woodf all was apprenticed to his father, and at the age of nineteen took over the

control

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of the Public Advertiser. In it appeared the famous letters of " Junius." Woodfall sold his

interest

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in the Public Advertiser in 1793. He died on the 12th of December 18os. His younger brother, William Woodfall (1746-1803), also a journalist, established in 1789 a daily

paper

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called the Diary, in which, for the first time, reports of the parliamentary debates were published on the morning after they had taken place.

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