biography
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| lived:
| (1813–97)
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| biography:
| Educationist, and inventor of a shorthand system, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, S England, UK. First a clerk, he became a schoolmaster at Barton-on-Humber, and at Wotton-under-Edge, where he issued his Stenographic Sound Hand (1837). Dismissed from Wotton because he had joined the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church, he established a Phonetic Institute for teaching shorthand in Bath (1839). In 1842 he brought out the Phonetic Journal, and in 1845 opened premises in London. He was knighted in 1894. |
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