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RINTOUL, ROBERT STEPHEN (1989-18.58),

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RINTOUL, See also:ROBERT See also:STEPHEN (1989-18.58), . See also:British journalist, was See also:born at Tibbermore, See also:Perthshire, in 1787, and educated at the Aberdalgie See also:parish school. After serving his See also:apprenticeship to ,the See also:printing See also:trade he became the printer and subsequently the editor of the See also:Dundee Advertiser. In 1826 he came to See also:London, and in See also:July 1828, with the assistance of See also:friends, founded The Spectator. In it Rintoul strongly supported the Reform See also:Bill, and to him was due the catch-phrase " The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill." After conducting The Spectator for more than See also:thirty years, he sold it shortly before his See also:death, which occurred on -the 22nd of See also:April 1858.

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