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Driver, Christopher Prout (1932–1997), journalist and writer on food  

Paul Levy

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23 September 2004
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Driver, Christopher Prout (1932–1997), journalist and writer on food, was born in India on 1 December 1932, the son of Arthur Herbert Driver, a Presbyterian medical missionary, and his wife, Elsie Kathleen Shepherd. When the family returned to England, Dr Driver ran Book in Hand...

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Duncan, William Augustine (1811–1885), newspaper editor and customs official in Australia  

Gordon Goodwin

revised by H. C. G. Matthew

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Duncan, William Augustine (1811–1885), newspaper editor and customs official in Australia, was born on 12 March 1811 at Bluefield, Towie, Aberdeenshire, the son of Peter Duncan and his wife, Mary, née Macdougal. He was educated with a view to being ordained in the ...

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Griffiths, Ralph (1720?–1803), journal editor and bookseller  

Antonia Forster

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Griffiths, Ralph (1720?–1803), journal editor and bookseller, is said to have been born in 1720; most authorities give Shropshire as the place, while others simply mention that he was first heard of in Staffordshire. His father might have been called Thomas, as a ...

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Magee, James (d. 1866)  

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Murdoch, John (1818–1903), journalist and customs and excise official  

Charles W. J. Withers

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Murdoch, John (1818–1903), journalist and customs and excise official, was born on 15 January 1818 at Lynemore Farm, Ardclach, Nairnshire, Scotland, the second child and eldest son of the nine children of John Murdoch, farm manager, and Mary McPherson, daughter of an Inverness-shire...

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Prentice, Archibald (1792–1857), journalist and free-trader  

Paul R. Ziegler

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Prentice, Archibald (1792–1857), journalist and free-trader, was born on 17 November 1792 at Covington Mains, a farm in the Upper ward of Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was one of seven children born to the yeoman farmer Archibald Prentice and his second wife, Helen, daughter of ...

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Saunders, David Hogg (d. 1904), writer, editor, and merchant  

Linda Brandt Fritzinger

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