Joseph Whitaker
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'''Joseph Whitaker''' ([[May 4]], [[1820]] - [[May 15]], [[1895]]), [[England|English]] publisher, was born in [[London]], and apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of fourteen.
After a long experience with various bookselling firms, he began business on his own
account as a theological publisher. In January 1858 he started the ''Bookseller'', and for [[1869]] published the first issue of ''[[Whitaker's Almanack]]'', the annual work of reference, which also met with immediate success.
In [[1874]] he published the first edition of the ''Reference Catalogue of Current Literature'', of which several editions have since appeared.
Whitaker died at [[Enfield]] on the 15th of May 1895 and was buried at [[West Norwood Cemetery]].
He was the father of fifteen children; the eldest, [[Joseph Vernon Whitaker]] was editor of the [[American Literary Gazette]], and later returned to England to become editor of the ''Bookseller'' and the ''Reference Catalogue''. [[Cuthbert Whitaker]], the twelfth child, succeeded his father as editor of the ''Almanack''.
A [[blue plaque]] was installed to mark his dwelling place, in 1998 at White Lodge, Silver Street, Enfield .
==External links==
* H. R. Tedder, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29224 ''Whitaker, Joseph (1820–1895)''] rev. Joseph Coohill, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], 2004 (Subscription required)
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