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PINNOCK, WILLIAM (1782–1843)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PINNOCK, See also:WILLIAM (1782–1843) , See also:English publisher and educational writer, was See also:born at See also:Alton, See also:Hampshire, on the 3rd of See also:February 1782, and was at first a schoolmaster, then a See also:book-seller. In 1817 he went to See also:London and, in See also:partnership with See also:Samuel See also:Mander, began to publish cheap educational See also:works. The See also:firm's first productions were a See also:series of Catechisms, planned by Pinnock, consisting of See also:short popular manuals, arranged in the See also:form of question and See also:answer, of the different departments of knowledge. They were followed by abridged See also:editions of See also:Goldsmith's histories of See also:England, See also:Greece and See also:Rome, and a series of See also:county histories which were no less profitable. Pinnock lost nearly all his See also:money in outside See also:speculation, and died in London on the 21st of See also:October 1843. His son, William See also:Henry Pinnock (1813–1885), a clergyman, was the editor and author of several elementary textbooks and scriptural manuals, and of various works on ecclesiastical See also:law and usage.

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