{"id":109475,"date":"2017-12-09T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:43","slug":"first-edition-of-times-published-1785-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-edition-of-times-published-1785-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First edition of The Times published, 1785"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/TR37CyZcwfI\/AAAAAAAAB0Q\/N6JLBjFlIB0\/s1600\/tudr.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"125\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556873540551885298\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/tudr.png\" class=\"wp-image-109476\" style=\"cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 125px;\" \/><\/a>In  1781, a wealthy London coal merchant called John Walters joined Lloyd&#8217;s  insurance company only to be left bankrupt by series of disasters.  Undeterred, he decided to try his hand as a printer. In 1782, he  purchased the patent for a new method of printing using parts of words  rather than single letters. He developed this technique and two years  later he acquired a printing office in Blackfriars.<\/p>\n<p>Walters  started by printing books using his new method. Then, on 1st January  1785, he published the first edition of a daily newspaper called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> The Daily Universal Register<\/span>, which he also edited. After three years, he changed the name of the newspaper to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Times<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Like  many other newspaper proprietors, Walter supplemented his income with  payments from the Treasury to print articles favourable to the  government. This arrangement may have been more trouble than it was  worth when he was found guilty of libel for publishing an attack on the  royal dukes written by Thomas Steele, the joint secretary of the  Treasury. After serving eighteen months in Newgate, Walter received a  pardon from the Prince of Wales, and in 1795 he retired from the active  running his printing business.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1781, a wealthy London coal merchant called John Walters joined Lloyd&#8217;s insurance company only to be left bankrupt by series of disasters. Undeterred, he decided to try his hand as a printer. In 1782, he purchased the patent for a new method of printing using parts of words rather than single letters. He developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}