John Harland (1806–1868) was an English reporter and antiquary. John Harland lithograph

Life

Harland was born at

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east ...

, and learned the trade of printing. He gained facility in

shorthand Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek ''ste ...

, and a report in 1830 of a sermon by John Gooch Robberds led to his name being mentioned to

John Edward Taylor John Edward Taylor (11 September 1791 – 6 January 1844) was an English business tycoon, editor, publisher and member of The Portico Library, who was the founder of the ''Manchester Guardian'' newspaper in 1821, which was renamed in 1959 ...

, of the ''

Manchester Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

''. Taylor went to Hull to hire Harland. Harland was head of the reporting staff of the ''Guardian'' until 1860, when he retired because of lameness. He died in Manchester on 23 April 1868.

Works

Harland edited 14 volumes for the

Chetham Society The Chetham Society "for the publication of remains historic and literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester" is a text publication society and registered charity (No. 700047) established on 23 March 1843. History Th ...

in 13 years. He also published collections of ''Lancashire Lyrics'' and ''Lancashire Ballads'', and, in conjunction with T. T. Wilkinson of

Burnley Burnley () is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021. It is north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Bru ...

, ''Lancashire Folklore''. He wrote the history of

Sawley Abbey Sawley Abbey was an abbey of Cistercian monks in the village of Sawley, Lancashire, in England (and historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire). Created as a daughter-house of Newminster Abbey, it existed from 1149 until its dissolution in 1 ...

, near

Clitheroe Clitheroe () is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England; it is located north-west of Manchester. It is near the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists visiting the area. In 2018, the Cl ...

, Yorkshire, and was revising Edward Baines's ''Lancashire'' at the time of his death.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Harland, John 1806 births 1868 deaths Journalists from Kingston upon Hull English male journalists English antiquarians The Guardian journalists 19th-century British journalists 19th-century English male writers