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See also:HANSARD, See also:LUKE (1752-1828) , See also:English printer, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:July 1752 in St See also:Mary's See also:parish,ENorwich. He was educated at See also:Boston See also:grammar school, and was apprenticed to See also:Stephen See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White, a See also:Norwich printer. As soon as his See also:apprenticeship had expired Hansard started for See also:London with only a See also:guinea in his See also:pocket, and became a compositor in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:John Hughs (1703-1771), printer to the See also:House of See also:Commons. In 1774 he was made a partner, and undertook almost the entire conduct of the business, which in 1800 came completely into his hands. On the See also:admission of his sons the See also:firm became 'Luke Hansard & Sons. Among those whose friendship Hansard won in the exercise of his profession were See also:Robert See also:Orme, See also:Burke and Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson; while See also:Porson praised him as the most accurate printer of See also:Greek. He printed the See also:Journals of the House of Commons from 1774 till his See also:death. The promptitude and accuracy with which Hansard printed See also:parliamentary papers were often of the greatest service to See also:government—notably on one occasion when the See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof-sheets of the See also:report of the See also:Secret See also:Committee on the See also:French Revolution were submitted to See also:Pitt twenty-four See also:hours after the draft had See also:left his hands. On the See also:union with See also:Ireland in 18o1, the increase of parliamentary See also:printing compelled Hansard to give up all private printing except when See also:parliament was not sitting. He devised numerous expedients for reducing the expense of See also:publishing the reports; and in 18o5, when his workmen struck at a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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of See also:great pressure, he and his sons themselves set to See also:work as compositors. Luke Hansard died on the 29th of See also:October 1828,
His son, TsoMAs CURSON HANSARD (1776-1833), established a See also:press of his own in Paternoster See also:Row, and began in 1803 to See also:print the Parliamentary Debates, which were not at first See also:independent reports, but were taken from the See also:newspapers. After 1889 the debates were published by the Hansard Publishing Union Limited. T. C. Hansard was the author of Typographic, an See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the See also:Art of Printing (1825). The See also:original business remained in the hands of his younger See also:brothers, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James and Luke See also:Graves Hansard (1777-1851). The firm was prosecuted in 1837 by John See also:Joseph Stockwell for printing by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the House of Commons, in an See also:official report of the inspector of prisons, statements regarded by the See also:plaintiff as libellous. Hansard sheltered himself on the ground of See also:privilege, but it was not until after much litigation that the See also:security of the printers of government reports was guaranteed by See also:statute in 1840.
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