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JOSEPH WHITAKER (1820-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 597 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH
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WHITAKER (1820-1895)  ,
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English publisher, was
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born in
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London on the 4th of May 1820, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the
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age of fourteen . After a
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long experience with various
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bookselling firms, he began business on his own
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account as a theological publisher . In
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January 1858 he started the
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Book-seller, and for 1869 published the first issue of
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Whitaker's Almanack, the
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annual
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work of reference, which also met with immediate success . In 1874 he published the first edition of the Reference
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Catalogue of Current Literature, of which several
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editions have since appeared . Whitaker died at
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Enfield on the 15th of May 1895 . He had been the
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father of fifteen
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children .

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