John Clennell (1772–1822) was a journalist.
Biography Clennell's father was a hat-manufacturer in Newcastle on Tyne. Intended for the church, Clennell went into the family firm to support his widowed mother; and then manufactured pins. He was unsuccessful in business, and therefore became a teacher.Eneas Mackenzie, 'Protestant Dissent: Chapels and meeting-houses', Historical Account of Newcastle upon Tyne: Including the Borough of Gateshead (1827), pp. 370-414. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43362 Date accessed: 20 April 2012.
Clennell moved to Hackney, London in 1816. He was a contributor to the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine, and attracted many supporters while working on a new journal, assisted by the chemist John Sadler. He wrote for Nicholson's Journal, and was editor of the Tradesman.Watt. R., Bibliotheca britannica, 1824
He was a contributor to Rees's Cyclopædia, but it is not known on what topics he contributed.
Writings
Thoughts on the Expediency of disclosing the processes of Manufactories, 1807. This a pamphlet with the texts of two lectures the author gave to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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