Sir Isaac Pitman
(1813-1897)

teacher and Knight Bachelor (from 1894)

Died aged c. 84

Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897) was a teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. He was also the vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. Pitman was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1894.

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Bath, United Kingdom

Here lived Sir Isaac Pitman B.1813 D.1897

17 Royal Crescent, Bath, United Kingdom where they lived