Robert Mudie

(1777-1842)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 DNB: Mudie, Robert (1777–1842), newspaper editor and author LBT ID: RoMudie1842 VIAF ID: 29962514 LOC ID: n85116431	B/BAP: 1777-06-28 DIED: 1842-04-29
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish autodidact who after emigrating to London in 1821 worked as a reporter for the Morning Chronicle and edited the Sunday Times; he was a prolific writer, described by Charles Knight as “nearer to the idea of a hack author of the old times than any man I ever saw.”
REFERENCES TO Robert Mudie: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 11