Cyrus Redding (1785–1870) was a British journalist and
wine
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writer.
Biography
Redding was born in
Cornwall
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. The son of a Baptist minister, he was privately educated. He moved to
London
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about 1806, and worked for the ''
Pilot'' (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''.
Between 1821 and 1830 Redding effectively edited ''
The New Monthly Magazine'' (owned by
Henry Colburn, 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:
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.
* 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
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1785 births
1870 deaths
Writers from Cornwall
English male journalists
19th-century English novelists
English male novelists
19th-century English male writers
Wine writers