Thomas Curson Hansard
Thomas Curson Hansard (6 November 1776 – 5 May 1833)[1] was an English pressman, son of the printer Luke Hansard.[2]
Early life and education
Hansard was born in Clerkenwell, currently within the borders of London but at the time part of Finsbury division, Ossulstone, Middlesex.
Career
In 1803, he established a press of his own in Paternoster Row. In the same year, William Cobbett, a newspaperman, began to print the Parliamentary Debates. At first, these were not independent reports, but were taken from newspapers' accounts of parliamentary debate.[3]
In 1809, Hansard started to print Cobbett's reports. Together, they also published a pamphlet describing an incident in which German mercenaries had flogged British soldiers for mutiny; as a result Hansard was imprisoned on 9 July 1810 in
Hansard was the author of Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing, published in 1825.[3][4]
Death
Hansard died in 1833 on New Bridge Street in Blackfriars, London, and is buried in Kingston Cemetery.[5]
Firm
The original business remained in the hands of his younger brothers, James and Luke Graves Hansard (1777–1851). The firm was prosecuted in 1837 by
After 1889, the debates were published by the Hansard Publishing Union Limited.[3]
References
- ^ Genealogy.com. Retrieved 2 May 2015
- ^ a b Tedder, Henry Richard (1890). Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 308. . In
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hansard, Luke s.v.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 928. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Hansard, T. C. (1825). Typographia. Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.
- ^ Burial records: Hansard, Thomas
External links
- A history of Hansard from The Australasian and Pacific Hansard Editors' Association
- Works by Thomas Curson Hansard at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)