Name John Wodderspoon | Died 1862 | |
John Wodderspoon (1806, Bath, Somerset – 19 November 1862, Norwich) was an English journalist and antiquarian, assistant editor of the Norwich Mercury.
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Life
Wodderspoon worked for the Bath Chronicle before moving to work for the Birmingham Journal for a couple of years. For ten years he was a reporter for the Suffolk Chronicle. His early books Sketches of the Suffolk Bar and Historic sites of Suffolk were begun in the Suffolk Literary Chronicle, which was printed at the Suffolk Chronicle office in 1839. In 1845 he edited the Antiquarian and Archaeological Year-Book, dedicated to his friend John Britton, with contributions from John Stevens Henslow, Rev. Stephen Isaacson (1798-1849), Rev. J. B. Deane, Rev. Pettit, Mr. Dukes, Dr. Charlton, Mr. Pugin, Charles Roach Smith and others. After briefly working as a parliamentary reporter for the Morning Post, he became sub-editor and reporter on the Norwich Mercury in 1848.