Originally a parliamentary reporter for the Morning Chronicle, in 1817 he succeeded Street as editor of The Courier; he wrote novels, contributed fiction to Blackwood's, the Literary Gazette, and other periodicals, and in 1841 succeeded Theodore Hook as the editor of John Bull.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY William Mudford:

Augustus and Mary; or, the Maid of Buttermere. A Domestic Tale.

“The Book of the Boudoir, by Lady Morgan” in Blackwood's Magazine.

The Five Nights of St. Albans.

An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher: comprising the battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo: with a detailed Narrative of the Political Events connected with those memorable Conflicts, down to the Surrender of Paris, and the Departure of Bonaparte for St. Helena.

Nubilia in Search of a Husband, including Sketches of Modern Society, and interspersed with Moral and Literary Disquisitions.