John Wilkes
Deceased Person
1750 – 1810
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Who was John Wilkes?
John Wilkes was an English printer, bookseller and stationer. He was a Freeman of Winchester and proprietor of the Hampshire Chronicle. With Peter Barfoot he ran the British Directory Office, which published the Universal British Directory from 1790 to 1798 after obtaining a royal patent. He compiled the Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, which was published between about 1801 and 1828 in 24 volumes. He owned Milland House in Sussex.
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