Marchamont needham biography

  • Marchamont Nedham, also Marchmont and Needham ( – November ), was a journalist, publisher and pamphleteer during the English Civil War.
  • Marchamont Needham was a British journalist and publisher of the Mercurius Britanicus, an anti-Royalist commentary on news and politics and.
  • Marchamont Nedham, also Marchmont and Needham, was a journalist, publisher and pamphleteer during the English Civil War who wrote official news and propaganda for both sides of the conflict.

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    Needham Family

    Marchmount Nedham or Needham

    Marchamont   Nedham   or Needham ( bap.   ,   d.   ),   journalist and pamphleteer , was baptized on 21 August at Burford, Oxfordshire, the only known child of Marchamont Nedham of Derbyshire ( c ) and Margery, daughter of John Collier, host of The George inn, Burford. The name was frequently spelt Needham . Marchamont senior matriculated at St John's College , Oxford , and gained his BA from Gloucester Hall on 19 February ; thereafter he was an attendant on Lady Elizabeth Walter,   née   Lucas, sister to John, Lord Lucas, and wife to Sir William Walter of Sarsden, near Burford. The year after Marchamont senior's death Margery married Christopher Glynn, vicar of Burford and master of its free school; accordingly young Marchamont was educated by his stepfather. From Nedham attended All Souls College , Oxford , subscribing on 22 January as a chorister, probably indicating a scho

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    Marchamont Nedham

    Marchamont Nedham, also Marchmont and Needham ( – November ), was a journalist, publisher and pamphleteer during the English Civil War who wrote tjänsteman news and propaganda for both sides of the conflict.

    A "highly productive propagandist",[1] he was significant in the evolution of early English journalism, and has been strikingly (if hyperbolically) called the "press agent" of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.[2]

    Early life

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    Nedham was raised bygd his mother, the innkeeper of The George Inn, Burford, Oxfordshire, after his father's death. His stepfather was the vicar of Burford and teacher at the local school.[3] He was educated at All Souls College of Oxford University. After college he became an usher at the Merchant Taylors' School, and then a clerk at Gray's Inn. He also studied medicine and pharmacology.[4]

    Civil War

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    Mercurius Britanicus

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    Nedham came to prominence in when he began wo