Cyrus Redding

Redding was born in Cornwall. The son of a Baptist minister, he was privately educated. He moved to London about 1806, and worked for the Pilot (est. 1807) before editing the Plymouth Chronicle and then the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser which he founded in 1810.

Travelling to Paris in 1814, Redding edited Galignani's Messenger from 1815 to 1818, as well as providing Paris correspondence for the Examiner.

Between 1821 and 1830 Redding effectively edited The New Monthly Magazine (owned by Henry Colburn, and nominally edited by Thomas Campbell). From 1831 to 1833 Redding and Campbell edited The Metropolitan Magazine.{{contradict-inline|The Metropolitan Magazine|section=Editors|date=December 2019}} He edited the Bath Guardian (1834–5) and the Staffordshire Examiner (1836–40). In 1841 he made two unsuccessful attempts to found journals, the English Journal and London Journal.

After that time he abandoned journalism for the writing of books. To his earlier novel, Gabrielle (1829), a children's book on shipwrecks (1833) and his history of wine (1833), he now began a series of county histories, memoirs of William Beckford and Thomas Campbell, and volumes of autobiography and reminiscences.

• 1829 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=dFWCRWFNugUC Gabrielle: a Tale of the Swiss Mountains.] London: John Ebbers & Co.
• 1833 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=IX0SAAAAYAAJ Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea] with Jean Louis Hubert Simon de Perthes. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co. {{OCLC|11167341}}
• 1833 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=YjoNAAAAYAAJ A history and description of modern wines.] London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6498122?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 6498122]
• 1839 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=AHcEAAAAQAAJ Every Man His Own Butler.] London: Whittaker & Co. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25057151?referer=br&ht=edition OCLC 25057151]
• 1842 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=pMEMAAAAYAAJ An illustrated itinerary of the county of Cornwall.] London: How and Parsons. {{OCLC|7479019}}
• 1844 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=00sOAAAAQAAJ An illustrated itinerary of the county of Lancaster.] London: Routledge. {{OCLC|23367567}}
• 1846 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=-ToEAAAAQAAJ Velasco.] London: T.C. Newby. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10905947 OCLC 10905947]
• 1859 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=SfNuGQAACAAJ&dq=cyrus+redding&lr= Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill,] with William Beckford. London: C.J. Skeet. {{OCLC|17562678}}
• 1858 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=LvYKAAAAYAAJ Fifty Years' Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things] 3 vols. London: C.J. Skeet. {{OCLC|2555786}}
• 1860 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=xDsBAAAAQAAJ Literary reminiscences and memoirs of Thomas Campbell.] London: C.J. Skeet. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5622942 OCLC 5622942]
• 1867 -- [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zd5kAAAAMAAJ Personal Reminiscences of Eminent Men.] London: Saunders, Otley. {{OCLC|2096122}}

• Thomas Seccombe, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23243 ‘Redding, Cyrus (1785–1870)’], rev. Ray Boston, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 3 Jan 2008
• Redding, Fifty Years' Recollections, [https://books.google.com/books?id=78YEAAAAYAAJ 1859 ed. at Google Books]

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