Whitehall Evening Post

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The Whitehall Evening Post was a London newspaper, founded in September 1718 by Daniel Defoe.

The newspaper was initially published on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Defoe left it in June 1720, but it continued to exist until the end of the century.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45161 |title=Whitehall - Precinct and gardens | Old and New London: Volume 3 (pp. 376-382) |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=2003-06-22 |access-date=2012-10-18}} It closed in 1801, with issue 8487{{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/topicguide/bbcn_03.htm |title=Early History of the English Newspaper |publisher=Find.galegroup.com |access-date=2012-10-18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.personal.psu.edu/jth/597/Early%20Newspapers.html |title=Partial List of Early English Newspapers and Magazines in Pattee |publisher=Personal.psu.edu |access-date=2012-10-18}} and was merged with the English Chronicle.[https://books.google.com/books?id=b-keBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22English+Chronicle+and+Whitehall+evening+post%22&pg=PA53 William S Ward Index and Finding List of Serials Published in the British Isles, 1789—1832 University Press of Kentucky, 13 Jan 2015 p53]

Its editors included Thomas Leach,{{cite DNB|wstitle=Leach, Thomas}} and finally Stephen Jones.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RnPTYpnUzewC&q=%22Editor+of+the+Whitehall+Evening+Post%22&pg=PA183 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland ... - John Watkins, Frederic Shoberl, William Upcott - Google Books |access-date=2012-10-18|last1=Upcott |first1=William |year=1816 }}