Richard Hurd was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester.
Robert Dodsley was an English bookseller, poet, playwright, and miscellaneous writer.
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, was a British politician. He is best known for his association with his brother-in-law William Pitt who he served with in government during Britain's participation in the Seven Years War between 1756 and 1761. He resigned along with Pitt in protest at the cabinet's failure to declare war on Spain.
Hicky's Bengal Gazette or the Original Calcutta General Advertiser was an English-language weekly newspaper published in Kolkata, the capital of British India. It was the first newspaper printed in Asia, and was published for two years, between 1780 and 1782, before the East India Company seized the newspaper's types and printing press. Founded by James Augustus Hicky, a highly eccentric Irishman who had previously spent two years in jail for debt, the newspaper was a strong critic of the administration of Governor General Warren Hastings. The newspaper was important for its provocative journalism and its fight for free expression in India.
George Nevill, 1st Earl of Abergavenny, known as Lord Bergavenny from 1744 to 1784, was an English peer. He married into a branch of the Pelham family seated at Stanmer and briefly held office as Lord Lieutenant of Sussex. Created an earl in 1784, he died the following year.
Gentleman of the Bedchamber was a title in the royal household of the Kingdom of England from the 11th century, later used also in the Kingdom of Great Britain. A Lord of the Bedchamber was a courtier in the Royal Household; the term being first used in 1718. Lords and Gentleman of the Bedchamber's duties originally consisted of assisting the monarch with dressing, waiting on him when he ate, guarding access to his bedchamber and closet and providing companionship. Such functions became less important over time but provided proximity to the monarch and the holders were thus trusted confidants and often extremely powerful. The offices were in the gift of The Crown and were originally sworn by Royal Warrant directed to the Lord Chamberlain.
The Daily Post (1719-1771). was a London daily paper begun on October 4, 1719 by printer in the Old Bailey, near Ludgate, with contributions from er Daniel Defoe. It was later printed by John Meres ; Meres also became printer of the London Evening Post by 1737.
Elizabeth Nutt and John Nutt were printers and booksellers and distributors in London in the early 18th century. John Nutt's most famous publication was the first three editions of Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, but he and Elizabeth were important both as publishers and sellers of many works of English law and literature.
Philip Francis was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer, now remembered as a translator of Horace.
Alexander Donaldson was a Scottish bookseller, publisher, and printer. Donaldson was the founding publisher of the weekly newspaper, the Edinburgh Advertiser. He was also known for selling cheap copies of books after their copyright had expired in disregard to London booksellers' opinions on literary property.
The Weekly Rehearsal or The Rehearsal (1731–1735) was a literary newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 1730s. Jeremiah Gridley served as editor and publisher (1731-1733); other publishers/printers included John Draper and Thomas Fleet. In 1735 it was continued by Thomas Fleet's Boston Evening Post.
William King (1685–1763) was an English academic and writer, Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1719, He was known for strongly held Jacobite views, and as a satirist and poet.
William Parks was a printer and journalist in England and Colonial America. He was the first printer in Maryland officially authorized as the printer for the public for the colonial government. He published the first newspaper in the Southern American colonies, the Maryland Gazette. He later became the officially authorized printer for the public for the colonial government of Virginia. Parks was the publicizer and printer of the first official collection of the authentic 1733 set of Virginia’s laws. He was the first colonial publisher and proprietor of the Virginia Gazette newspaper. He established a paper factory in Virginia, which was the first mill south of Pennsylvania. Parks worked with Benjamin Franklin on several projects related to printing.
George North (1707–1772) was an English cleric and numismatist.
The Leeward Islands Station and originally known as the Barbadoes and Leeward Islands Station was a formation or command of the Kingdom of Great Britain and then the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed at English Harbour, Antigua, Leeward Islands from 1743 to 1821.
Early American publishers and printers played an integral role in the social, political and commercial developments in colonial America before, during and after the American Revolution. Printing and publishing in the 17th and 18th century among the Thirteen Colonies of British North American emerged in the face of various pressing needs and political development that were widely considered among those settlements as unfair rule over them by the British Crown.
