Radcliffe, William (1763 - 1830)

Short name Radcliffe, William
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First name William
Birth name Radcliffe
Date of birth 1763
Date of death 1830
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Place of birth Holborn (London)
Place of death Versailles
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translated An Introduction to Universal History (1787) from Latin, The Natural History of East Tartary (1789) from French, and A Journey through Sweden (1790) also from French. In 1790 he began as a journalist and parliamentary reporter for the radical Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, where he remained until 1793, possibly rising to editor. He was editor and a proprietor for the English Chronicle from 1796. William Radcliffe appears to have helped his wife with her Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795). In the preface, Ann Radcliffe credits the political sections to him and acknowledges his larger contributions to the fabric of the account: 'The title page would’, she writes, ‘have contained the joint names of her husband and herself, if this mode of appearing before the public [...] had not seemed liable to the imputation of a design to attract attention by extraordinary novelty'. born Holborn