Access our collection of historical records Marchamont Nedham, also Marchmont and Needham ( – November ), was a journalist, publisher and pamphleteer during the English Civil War who wrote official news and propaganda for both sides of the conflict.
Illustrations, notes, biography, and Marchamont Needham (baptized Aug. 21, , Burford, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Nov. 29, , London) was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary on news and politics and a forerunner of the modern newspaper.
By the flexible Marchamont Needham. Nedham married twice. By his first wife, Lucy, he had a son named Marchamont (b. 6 May ) (Masson, Life of Milton, iv. ). His second wife was a widow named Elizabeth Thompson (Chester, London Marriage Licences, p. ; the licence is dated 18 April ).
Were these altered by In the midst of the bitter English Civil War – a sort-of Brexit with swords, which led to the execution of Charles I in – Marchamont Nedham was the era’s most notorious, controversial and successful journalist.
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Marchamont Nedham was a teacher, lawyer, spy, doctor and the most notorious journalist in Britain at a time when popular newspapers were first taking off. Raised in Burfort, Oxfordshire by his mother who was the innkeeper at the George Inn, and was educated at All Souls College of Oxford University. Marchmont Home, Belleville, Ontario Marchamont Nedham was a witty, intellectually versatile journalist and political theorist, who began the year as a royalist journalist, hiding from Parliament's officials; in the following months he was silenced, captured, and imprisoned.
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