John Drakard (1775?-1854) was an English newspaper proprietor, publisher, and political radical, imprisoned for his journalism.

Life

He went into business at Stamford, Lincolnshire as a printer and book-seller at the beginning of the 19th century. On 15 September 1809 he started a weekly paper, the Stamford News. The first editor was the topographer Thomas Blore, but he and Drakard soon fell out.

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