George Parker Tuxford

George Parker Tuxford (ca.1810 – 24 October 1870) of Barnes, London, was a British magazine publisher.

Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of John Tuxford, George was a co-proprietor with John Rogerson (c. 1884 – 11 May 1851)[1] of the English agricultural newspaper Mark Lane Express, cofounded by Cuthbert William Johnson (1799–1878), brother of George W. Johnson, and William Shaw and edited by Shaw,[2] and the Farmers' Magazine with offices at 246 The Strand.

A frequent contributor to these magazines was Henry Hall Dixon (1822–1870), an entertaining writer on country matters. Tuxford and Rogerson also published the New Sporting Magazine.

He was also a founder and for many years a director of Farmers' Insurance Office, an early member of the Farmers Club, and a Life Governor of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.

  1. ^ "cornwall england newspaper". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Our Founding Fathers" Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine Phillip Sheppy, MBE, FRAgS (an essay on Richard Ansdell's painting The Meeting of The Royal Agricultural Society, Bristol 1842)