Jackson and Walford, later Jackson, Walford, and Hodder from 1861 was a London publishing firm and predecessor firm of Hodder & Stoughton. at 18

St Paul's Churchyard St Paul's Churchyard is an area immediately around St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. It included St Paul's Cross and Paternoster Row. It became one of the principal marketplaces in London. St Paul's Cross was an open-air pulpit from whi ...

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in 1871 (which was the former address of the later Ward & Co.) The publishers with their successive name changes were one of many London publishers that operated around St. Paul's Churchyard and Paternoster Row. They published the ''

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'', which were the publications of the "

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, and the Confederated Societies."''The Congregational Year Book for 1850, with an Almanac for 1851, Containing the Proceedings of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and the Confederated Societies for that Year. Together with Supplementary Information, Respecting the Associations, Ministers, New Chapels, Schools, and Publications, of the Congregational Body Throughout the United Kingdom.'' (

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: Jackson and Walford, 18 St Paul’s Churchyard, 1851). Matthew Hodder apprenticed there from the age of fourteen and became a partner in 1861. Upon the retirement of Messrs. Jackson and Walford in 1868, Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined Hodder and the firm was renamed Hodder & Stoughton. The firm then published both religious and secular works and has survived into the present day as an imprint of

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References

*Attenborough, John. ''A Living Memory: Hodder and Stoughton 1868-1975''. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. *Bennett, Bryan, and Anthony Hamilton. ''Edward Arnold: 100 Years of Publishing''. Illustrated with black and white plates, including a frontispiece of Edward Arnold. London: Edward Arnold (A Division of Hodder & Stoughton), 1990. {{Authority control Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Christian mass media companies Christian publishing companies 1861 establishments in England Publishing companies established in 1861