Cyrus Redding (1785–1870) was a British journalist and
wine
Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...
writer.
Biography
Redding was born in
Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
. The son of a Baptist minister, he was privately educated. He moved to
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
about 1806, and worked for the ''
Pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...
'' (est. 1807) before editing the ''Plymouth Chronicle'' and then the ''West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser'' which he founded in 1810.
Travelling to Paris in 1814, Redding edited ''Galignani's Messenger'' from 1815 to 1818, as well as providing Paris correspondence for the ''
Examiner
Examiner or The Examiner may refer to:
Occupations
* Bank examiner, a kind of auditor
* Examiner (Roman Catholicism), a type of office in the Roman Catholic Church
* Examinership, a concept in Irish law
* Medical examiner
* Patent examiner
* Tr ...
''.
Between 1821 and 1830 Redding effectively edited ''
The New Monthly Magazine
''The New Monthly Magazine'' was a British monthly magazine published from 1814 to 1884. It was founded by Henry Colburn and published by him through to 1845.
History
Colburn and Frederic Shoberl established ''The New Monthly Magazine and Univ ...
'' (owned by
Henry Colburn
Henry Colburn (1784 – 16 August 1855) was a British publisher.
Life
Virtually nothing is known about Henry Colburn's parentage or early life, and there is uncertainty over his year of birth. He was well-educated and fluent in French and h ...
, and nominally edited by
Thomas Campbell). From 1831 to 1833 Redding and Campbell edited ''
The Metropolitan Magazine''. He edited the ''Bath Guardian'' (1834–5) and the ''Staffordshire Examiner'' (1836–40). In 1841 he made two unsuccessful attempts to found journals, the ''English Journal'' and ''London Journal''.
After that time he abandoned journalism for the writing of books. To his earlier novel, ''Gabrielle'' (1829), a children's book on shipwrecks (1833) and his history of wine (1833), he now began a series of county histories, memoirs of
William Beckford and Thomas Campbell, and volumes of autobiography and reminiscences.
Works
* 1829 -
''Gabrielle: a Tale of the Swiss Mountains.'' London: John Ebbers & Co.
* 1833 -
''Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea''with Jean Louis Hubert Simon de Perthes. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.
* 1833 -
''A history and description of modern wines.''London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot
OCLC 6498122
* 1839 -
''Every Man His Own Butler.''London: Whittaker & Co
OCLC 25057151* 1842 -
''An illustrated itinerary of the county of Cornwall.''London: How and Parsons.
* 1844 -
''An illustrated itinerary of the county of Lancaster.''London:
Routledge
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law ...
.
* 1846 -
''Velasco.''London: T.C. Newby
OCLC 10905947* 1859 -
''Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill,''with William Beckford. London: C.J. Skeet.
* 1858 -
''Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things''3 vols. London: C.J. Skeet.
* 1860 -
''Literary reminiscences and memoirs of Thomas Campbell.''London: C.J. Skeet
OCLC 5622942* 1867 -
''Personal Reminiscences of Eminent Men.''London: Saunders, Otley.
References
*Thomas Seccombe
‘Redding, Cyrus (1785–1870)’ rev. Ray Boston, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 Jan 2008
*Redding, ''Fifty Years' Recollections''
1859 ed. at Google Books
External links
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Redding, Cyrus
1785 births
1870 deaths
Writers from Cornwall
English male journalists
19th-century English novelists
English male novelists
19th-century English male writers
Wine writers