Sir John Stoddart was an English journalist and lawyer, who served as editor of The Times.
13 Facts About John Stoddart
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Stoddart, who was born at Salisbury, was the eldest son of John Stoddart, who was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
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John Stoddart was admitted as a member of the College of Advocates in 1801, and from 1803 to 1807 he was the Advocate of the Crown and of the Admiralty at Malta.
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John Stoddart subsequently returned to England to practice in the Doctors' Commons.
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Two months later, John Stoddart started a rival daily to The Times, entitled The New Times, which was shortly amalgamated with the Day.
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John Stoddart learned Italian because the Maltese complained that former judges had been imperfectly acquainted with the languages spoken on the island.
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John Stoddart published in three parts, between 1830 and 1832, Trial by Jury: a Speech on the Opening of a Commission in Malta for establishing a modified Trial by Jury, translated from the Italian.
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On 1 August 1803, John Stoddart married Isabella Moncrieff, who was the eldest daughter of the Reverend Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncreiff, 8th Baronet, and Susan Robertson Barclay.
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John Stoddart wrote several novels under the pseudonym "Mrs Martha Blackford".
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At his death in 1856, the Annual Register reported that John Stoddart left "a very numerous family".
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John Stoddart became vicar of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, and died at Genoa on 21 Nov 1856.
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One daughter, Isabella Maxwell John Stoddart, married Captain George Whitmore at Malta, on 22 February 1827.
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John Stoddart published in 1801 Remarks on the Local Scenery and Manners of Scotland, London, 2 vols.