Joseph Towers
1739 – 1799
Dissenting Presbyterian and later Unitarian Minister, biographer, printer, publisher, and Whig journalist.
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Towers was the son of a used book seller in whose shop he was drawn to Whig ideas in politics and dissenting views in religion. Beginning as a printer, he became a prolific writer and eventually editor of the Sherborne Mercury. Moving to London in 1765, he was employed by the Whig publisher, Robert Goadby, to be editor of British Biography, and soon entered the literary fray against Samuel Johnson and John Shebbeare.
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