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Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet: Quick Facts

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Born June 25, 1875 • Hackney • England
Died January 17, 1954 (aged 78) • England
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William Morris
British artist and author
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
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Sir Victor Gollancz
British author and publisher
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Jonathan Cape
British publisher
Pine, John: engraving
John Pine
English engraver
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John Lehmann
British poet
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Sir Allen Lane
British publisher
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Stephen Day
American printer
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Edward Blount
English publisher
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Wynkyn de Worde
English printer
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Henry Richard Vizetelly
British-Italian publisher
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Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
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Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
Czechoslovak-born British publisher
Walter Hines Page, detail of a portrait by P.A. de Laszlo; in the collection of the Department of Archives and History, North Carolina
Walter Hines Page
American author and diplomat
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Henri II Estienne
French scholar and printer
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Aldus Manutius
Italian printer
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Robert Foulis
Scottish printer