John Pitchford

(1772 c.-1839)

LBT ID: JoPitch1839	B/BAP: 1772 DIED: 1839-07-24
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (August 1839) 213; The Catholic Directory and Annual Register for the year 1840 (1840) 118; Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1895) 1:82
The son of the botanist John Pitchford (1737–1803), he was educated at Norwich under Samuel Parr and at St. Omer, and was a chemist and political radical in Norwich where he contributed to The Cabinet (1795).
REFERENCES TO John Pitchford: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 25