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See also:WALTER, See also:JOHN (1738/9-1812) , founder of The Times newspaper, See also:London, was See also:born in 1738/9, probably in London, and from the See also:death of his See also:father, See also:Richard Walter (about 1755/6), until 1781 was engaged in a prosperous business as a See also:coal See also:merchant. He played a leading See also:part in establishing a Coal See also:Exchange in London; but shortly after 1781, when he began to occupy himself solely as an See also:underwriter and became a member of See also:Lloyd's, he over-speculated and failed. In 1782 he bought from one See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry 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 a patent for a new method of See also:printing from " logotypes " (i.e. founts of words or portions of words, instead of letters), and made some improvements in it. In 1784 he acquired an old printing 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 in Blackfriars, which formed the See also:nucleus of the Printing-See also:house Square of a later date, and established there his " Logographic Office." At first he only undertook the printing of books, but on 1st See also:January 1785 he started a small newspaper called The Daily Universal See also:Register, which on reaching its 940th number on 1st January x788 was renamed The Times. The printing business See also:developed and prospered, but the newspaper at first had a somewhat chequered career. In 1789 Mr Walter was tried for a See also:libel in it on the See also:duke of See also:York, and was sentenced to a See also:fine of 50, a See also:year's imprisonment in Newgate, to stand in the See also:pillory for an See also:hour and to give See also:surety for See also:good behaviour for seven years; and for further libels the fine was increased by £roo, and the imprisonment by a second year. On 9th See also:March 1791, however, he was liberated and pardoned. In 1799 he was again convicted for a technical libel, this 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 on See also:Lord See also:Cowper. He had then given
up the management of the business to his eldest son, 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, and had (1795) retired to See also:Teddington, where he died, 16th See also:November 1812. In 1759 he had married Frances See also:Landen (died 1798), by whom he had six See also:children. William Walter very soon gave up the duties he undertook in 1795, and in 1803 transferred the See also:sole management of the business to his younger See also:brother, John.
End of Article: WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)
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