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HENRY SAMPSON WOODFALL (173.9-1805)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:SAMPSON See also:WOODFALL (173.9-1805)  , See also:English printer and journalist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21St of See also:June 1739 . His See also:father, See also:Henry Woodf all, was the printer of the newspaper the Public Advertiser, and the author of the ballad Darby and See also:Joan, for which his son's employer, See also:John Darby, and his wife, were the originals . H . S . Woodf all was apprenticed to his father, and at the See also:age of nineteen took over the See also:control of the Public Advertiser . In it appeared the famous letters of " See also:Junius." See also:Woodfall sold his See also:interest in the Public Advertiser in 1793 . He died on the 12th of See also:December 18os . His younger See also:brother, See also:William Woodfall (1746-1803), also a journalist, established in 1789 a daily See also:paper called the See also:Diary, in which, for the first See also:time, reports of the See also:parliamentary debates were published on the See also:morning after they had taken See also:place .

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