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.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.
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.{{ODNBweb|id=62632|title=Sadler, James|first=H. S.|last=Torrens}}{{cite book|title=The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaRJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA336|accessdate=20 April 2012|year=1811|publisher=E. Cave|page=336}} He wrote for Nicholson's Journal,{{cite book|author1=John Watkins|author-link=John Watkins (writer)|author2=Frederic Shoberl|author2-link=Frederic Shoberl|author3=William Upcott|author3-link=William Upcott|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmu5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA67|accessdate=20 April 2012|year=1816|publisher=Printed for H. Colburn|page=67}} and was editor of the Tradesman.Watt. R., Bibliotheca britannica, 1824
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 Manufactories, 1807. This a pamphlet with the texts of two lectures the author gave to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.{{cite book|author=John Redman Coxe|title=The Philadelphia medical museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8cRDyy4nTdkC&pg=RA1-PA115|accessdate=20 April 2012|year=1809|publisher=John Redman Coxe|page=115}}
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