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Bulloch, John (1805–1882), brass-finisher and literary scholar  

Sidney Lee

revised by Nilanjana Banerji

Bulloch, John (1805–1882), brass-finisher and literary scholar, was a native of Aberdeen. For most of his life he worked as a brass-finisher, and lived in very humble circumstances, but he devoted much of his leisure to literary pursuits. He contributed to The Athenaeum...

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Clapham, Sir Michael John Sinclair (1912–2002), printer and industrialist  

Martin Adeney

Clapham, Sir Michael John Sinclair (1912–2002), printer and industrialist, was born on 17 January 1912 at 55 Bateman Street, Cambridge, the only son (there were three daughters) of Sir John Harold Clapham (1873–1946), economic historian, and his wife, Mary Margaret, née Green, daughter of a ...

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Mitchel, William (1670–1740?), tinsmith and pamphleteer  

G. G. Smith

revised by M. J. Mercer

Mitchel, William (1670–1740?), tinsmith and pamphleteer, was born in Scotland but nothing is known of his early life. In or about 1696 he moved to Edinburgh and took up residence in the Bowhead. There he earned a living as a tinsmith and by superintending the lighting of the town lamps. ...