John Clennell (1772–1822) was a journalist.
Biography edit
Clennell's father was a hat-manufacturer in Newcastle on Tyne. Intended for the church, Clennell went into the family firm to support his widowed mother; and then manufactured pins. He was unsuccessful in business, and therefore became a teacher.[1]
Clennell moved to Hackney, London in 1816. He was a contributor to the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine, and attracted many supporters while working on a new journal, assisted by the chemist John Sadler.[2][3] He wrote for Nicholson's Journal,[4] and was editor of the Tradesman.[5]
He was a contributor to Rees's Cyclopædia, but it is not known on what topics he contributed.
Writings edit
- Thoughts on the Expediency of disclosing the processes of Manufactories, 1807. This a pamphlet with the texts of two lectures the author gave to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.[6]
References edit
- ^ Eneas Mackenzie, 'Protestant Dissent: Chapels and meeting-houses', Historical Account of Newcastle upon Tyne: Including the Borough of Gateshead (1827), pp. 370-414. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43362 Date accessed: 20 April 2012.
- ^ Torrens, H. S. "Sadler, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62632. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle. E. Cave. 1811. p. 336. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ John Watkins; Frederic Shoberl; William Upcott (1816). A Biographical Dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland: comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives, and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed; including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England. Printed for H. Colburn. p. 67. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ Watt. R., Bibliotheca britannica, 1824
- ^ John Redman Coxe (1809). The Philadelphia medical museum. John Redman Coxe. p. 115. Retrieved 20 April 2012.