WILLIAM

See also:

• WILLIAM PINNOCK (1782–1843)

PINNOCK (1782–1843)  , English publisher and educational writer, was born at Alton, Hampshire, on the 3rd of February 1782, and was at first a schoolmaster, then a book-seller . In 1817 he went to London and, in partnership with Samuel Mander, began to publish cheap educational works . The firm's first productions were a series of Catechisms, planned by Pinnock, consisting of short popular manuals, arranged in the form of question and answer, of the different departments of knowledge . They were followed by abridged editions of Goldsmith's histories of England, Greece and Rome, and a series of county histories which were no less profitable . Pinnock lost nearly all his money in outside speculation, and died in London on the 21st of October 1843 . His son, William Henry Pinnock (1813–1885), a clergyman, was the editor and author of several elementary textbooks and scriptural manuals, and of various works on ecclesiastical law and usage .