# William Pinnock

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'''William Pinnock''' (3 February 1782 in [Alton](/source/Alton%2C_Hampshire), [Hampshire](/source/Hampshire){{snd}}21 October 1843 in [London](/source/London)) was a [British](/source/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain) [publisher](/source/publisher) and [educational writer](/source/educational_writer).

He was at first a [schoolmaster](/source/schoolmaster), then a bookseller. In 1817 he went to London and, in partnership with [Samuel Maunder](/source/Samuel_Maunder), began to publish cheap educational works. The firm's first productions were a series of [Catechism](/source/Catechism)s, planned by Pinnock, consisting of short popular manuals, arranged in the form of question and answer, of the different departments of knowledge.<ref name=eb/> This style was later copied by [Fanny Umphelby](/source/Fanny_Umphelby).<ref name="CarpenterPrichard1984">{{cite book|last1=Carpenter|first1=Humphrey|authorlink1=Humphrey Carpenter|last2=Prichard|first2=Mari|title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature|year=1984|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211582-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00carp/page/115 115]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00carp}}</ref> The dialogues were followed by abridged editions of Goldsmith's histories of England, Greece and Rome, and a series of county histories which were no less profitable. Pinnock lost nearly all his money in outside speculation.<ref name=eb>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Pinnock, William |volume=21 |page=628 |inline=1}}</ref>

Pinnock is mentioned, as a depressing set of texts, in contrast to Washington Irving's stories, in [George Eliot](/source/George_Eliot)'s novel ''[The Mill on the Floss](/source/The_Mill_on_the_Floss)'' (1860): Maggie, speaking about her 'gloomy fancy' to her cousin Lucy says:

''"Perhaps it comes from the school diet – watery rice-pudding spiced with Pinnock. Let us hope it will give way before my mother's custards and this charming [Geoffrey Crayon](/source/The_Sketchbook_of_Geoffrey_Crayon)."''

Pinnock's son, [William Henry Pinnock](/source/William_Henry_Pinnock) (1813–1885), a clergyman, was the editor and author of several elementary textbooks and scriptural manuals, and of various works on ecclesiastical law and usage.<ref name=eb/>

== See also ==
* Pinnock's First Catechism for Children, 1837 on Archive.org<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_28737/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater | isbn=978-0-665-28737-4 | title=Pinnock's first catechism for children &#91;microform&#93; : Containing such things as are necessary to be known at an early age | date=1837 }}</ref>
* [Samuel Maunder](/source/Samuel_Maunder)

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==External links==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=William Pinnock |birth=1782 |death=1843}}
* [Biography of William Pinnock at Wikisource](/source/s%3APinnock%2C_William_(DNB00))

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