William Godwin's Diary

MacDonnell, D.E.

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  • Name: MacDonnell, D.E.
  • Gender: Male
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  • Occupation: lawyer
  • Occupation: journalist

Successively editor of The Morning Post (probably), The Gazetteer, and The Telegraph, over 1791-6. Founding member of Society of the Friends of the People, April 1792. Almost certainly the same D. E. MacDonnell of the Middle Temple who compiled A Dictionary of the Quotations in Most Frequent Use, 5th ed (1809)

  • Robert L. Haig, The Gazetteer 1735-1797, pp. 232-239 and 250-3
  • L. Werkmeister, The London Daily Press, 1772-1792, pp. 343, 355
  • L. Werkmeister, A Newspaper History of England, 1792-3, pp. 37, 76, 168, 169
  • John Taylor, Records of My Life, II, 272-8

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