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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 SAMPSON WOODFALL (173.9-1805)  ,
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English printer and journalist, was born in
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London on the 21St of
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June 1739 . His
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father, Henry Woodf all, was the printer of the newspaper the Public Advertiser, and the author of the ballad Darby and
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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 of the Public Advertiser . In it appeared the famous letters of " Junius." Woodfall sold his
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interest in the Public Advertiser in 1793 . He died on the 12th of December 18os . His younger
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brother, William Woodfall (1746-1803), also a journalist, established in 1789 a daily paper called the
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Diary, in which, for the first time, reports of the
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parliamentary debates were published on the
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morning after they had taken place .

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