John Clennell

John Clennell (1772–1822) was a journalist.

Biography

Clennell's father was a hat-manufacturer in Newcastle on Tyne. Intended for the church, Clennell went into the family firm to support his widowed mother; and then manufactured pins. He was unsuccessful in business, and therefore became a teacher.^[1]

Clennell moved to Hackney, London in 1816. He was a contributor to the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine, and attracted many supporters while working on a new journal, assisted by the chemist John Sadler.^[2][3] He wrote for Nicholson's Journal,^[4] and was editor of the Tradesman.^[5]

He was a contributor to Rees's Cyclopædia, but it is not known on what topics he contributed.

Writings

• Thoughts on the Expediency of disclosing the processes of Manufacturer, 1807. This a pamphlet with the texts of two lectures the author gave to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.^[6]

References

1. Eneas Mackenzie, 'Protestant Dissent: Chapels and meeting-houses', Historical Account of Newcastle upon Tyne: Including the Borough of Gateshead (1827), pp. 370-414. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43362 Date accessed: 20 April 2012.
2. Torrens, H. S. "Sadler, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62632. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle. E. Cave. 1811. p. 336. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
4. John Watkins; Frederic Shoberl; William Upcott (1816). A Biographical Dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland: comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives, and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed; including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England. Printed for H. Colburn. p. 67. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
5. Watt. R., Bibliotheca britannica, 1824
6. John Redman Coxe (1809). The Philadelphia medical museum. John Redman Coxe. p. 115. Retrieved 20 April 2012.