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ROBERT STEPHEN RINTOUL (1989-18.58),

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STEPHEN
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RINTOUL (1989-18.58),  .
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British journalist, was
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born at Tibbermore,
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Perthshire, in 1787, and educated at the Aberdalgie
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parish school . After serving his
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apprenticeship to ,the
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printing
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trade he became the printer and subsequently the editor of the
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Dundee Advertiser . In 1826 he came to
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London, and in
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July 1828, with the assistance of
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friends, founded The Spectator . In it
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Rintoul strongly supported the Reform
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Bill, and to him was due the catch-phrase " The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill." After conducting The Spectator for more than
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thirty years, he sold it shortly before his
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death, which occurred on -the 22nd of
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April 1858 .

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