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See also:BLACKWOOD, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1776-1834) , Scottish publisher, founder of the See also:firm of William Blackwood & Sons, was See also:born of humble parents at See also:Edinburgh on the 20th of See also:November 1776. At the See also:age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a firm of booksellers in Edinburgh, and he followed his calling also in See also:Glasgow and See also:London for several years. Returning to Edinburgh in 1804, he opened a See also:shop in See also:South See also:Bridge See also:Street for the See also:sale of old, rare and curious books. He undertook the Scottish agency for See also:John See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray and other London publishers, and gradually drifted into See also:publishing on his own See also:account, removing in 1816 to Princes Street. On the 1st of See also:April 1817 was issued the first number of the Edinburgh Monthly See also:Magazine, which on its seventh number, See also:bore the name of Blackwood's as the leading See also:part of the See also:title. " Maga," as this magazine soon came to be called, was the See also:organ of the Scottish Tory party, and See also:round it gathered a See also:host of able writers. William Blackwood died on the 16th of See also:September 1834, and was succeeded by his two sons, See also:Alexander and See also:Robert,who added a London See also:branch to the firm. In 1845 Alexander Blackwood died, and shortly afterwards Robert.
A younger See also:brother, John Blackwood (1818-1879), succeeded to the business; four years later he was joined by See also:Major William Blackwood, who continued in the firm until his See also:death in 1861. In 1862 the major's See also:elder son, William Blackwood (b. 1836), was taken into See also:partnership. John Blackwood. was a See also:man of strong See also:personality and See also:great business discernment; it was in the pages of his magazine that See also:George See also:Eliot's first stories, Scenes of Clerical See also:Life, appeared. He also inaugurated the " See also:Ancient See also:Classics for See also:English readers " See also:series. On his death Mr William Blackwood was See also:left in See also:sole See also:control of the business.. With him were associated his nephews, George William and J. H. See also:Black-See also:wood, sons of Major George Blackwood, who was killed at See also:Maiwand in 1880.
See See also:Annals of a Publishing See also:House; William Blackwood and his Sons (1897-1898), the first two volumes of which were Written by Mrs See also:Oliphant; the third, dealing with John Blackwood, by his daughter, Mrs Gerald See also:Porter.
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