Surname: Mudford Forename(s): William b. 8 January 1782. d. 10 March 1848. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, editor, novelist, and journalist. Born in London. Parliamentary reporter for
the Morning Chronicle (1789-1821). Editor of The Courier (1817-1828) and John Bull (1841-1848). Contributed to Bentley’s Monthly Magazine and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. Author of the novels The Premier (1831) and Stephen Dugard (1840). Founder and editor of the Kentish Observer and the Canterbury Journal. Married Amelia Camp on 27 February 1843. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)