Joseph Chessborough Dyer
1780–1871
American-born inventor. Involved in trade between France and the United States, 1796–1811. From 1816, mainly occupied with developing mechanical devices for patent, and marketing his own and others’ devices. Helped found the Manchester Chronicle in 1821. Chairman of the Reform League from 1819. Vice-president, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1851–68.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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