Thomas Curson Hansard

Thomas Curson Hansard (* 1776 ; † 1833 ) was a British printer . Hansard was best known for the minutes of the meetings of the British House of Commons, Hansard , and the parliamentary bodies of other English-speaking countries, named after him .

Life

Hansard was the son of Luke Hansard . In 1803 he set up a printing house on Paternosterstrasse in London. In 1809, Hansard began to print the British Parliamentary Reports published by Cobbett. In 1812, the financially troubled Cobbett sold his editorial team to Hansard, who since then has not only printed the parliamentary reports, but also had them published until his death. From 1829 he had the collections named Hansard after his family name. After Hansard's death, his brothers James and Luke Graves Hansard took over the publication of the Hansard. In 1889 the state-owned Hansard Publishing Union Limited took over the publications of the parliamentary transcripts.

In addition, Hansard wrote the book Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing (1825).

literature

• Hansard, Luke . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 12 : Gichtel - harmonium . London 1910, section His son, Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833)… , p. 927–928 (English, full text [ Wikisource ] - here, p. 928).

Web links

• The Australasian and Pacific Hansard Editors' Association: Hansard - Then And Now. ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )