John Wilkes
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Wilkes was an English printer, bookseller and stationer. Life Wilkes was a Freeman of Winchester and proprietor of the Hampshire Chronicle. With Peter Barfoot he ran the British Directory Office in London, which published the Universal British Directory from 1790 to 1798 after obtaining a royal patent.