Thomas Warren
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Other people". Thomas Warren (fl. 1727–1767) was an English bookseller, printer, publisher and businessman.
Warren was an influential figure in Birmingham at a time when it was a hotbed of creative activity, opening a bookshop in High Street, Birmingham around 1727.[1] From here he founded and published the Birmingham Journal – the town's first known newspaper;[2] he edited and published Samuel Johnson's first book – a translation of Jerónimo Lobo’s Voyage to Abyssinia[3]—and with Joshua Kirton sold Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone.[4] Warren was also known for publishing collections of contemporary musical catches, canons, glees and rounds, more than 650 works by over 100 composers.[5]
He also financed the cotton mill established by John Wyatt and Lewis Paul in 1741.[6] This was the world's first mechanised cotton-spinning factory, and was to pave the way for Richard Arkwright's later transformation of the cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution.[7]
The Paul-Wyatt cotton mill was not a financial success, however, and Warren declared bankruptcy in 1743.[1]
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- ↑ Thomas Warren. A Collection of Catches, Canons and Glees (1762-1793)
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