Egerton Smith

Egerton Smith

Egerton Smith (1774-1841) was a Liverpool publisher, founder of the "Liverpool Mercury".

Egerton Smith was the son of Egerton Smith the elder (died 1788) and Ann Prescott. He joined his mother and then his brother in the family firm, making navigational instruments, and took out a patent for one invention in 1809. [Morison-Low, A. D., "Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution", 67-68] However, he increasingly turned towards printing and publishing. He founded the "Liverpoool Mercury" newspaper in 1811, and a weekly magazine, "The Kaleidoscope", in 1818. Smith was also active in founding mechanics institutes ['F. S.', 'Egerton Smith', "Notes and Queries", series 4, VI (1850), p. 458] and became a well-known local philanthropist. [Obituary, "Liverpool Mercury", 26 November 1841]

References

*Perkin, Michael, 'Egerton Smith and the Early Nineteenth Century Book Trade in Liverpool', in Robin Myers and Michael Harris (eds.) "Spreading the Word: the Distribution Networks of Print, 1550-1850" (Winchester, 1990), 151-64


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