John Southward was an English writer on printing and typography.
Background
Born on 28 April 1840, he was son of Jackson Southward, a printer in Liverpool from Corney, Cumberland, by Margaret Proud of Enniscorthy, County Wexford. After education at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, he gained practical knowledge of printing in his father"s office on Pitt Street, Liverpool.
Career
At 17 he began editorial work with the Review Abraham Hume on the Liverpool Philosophical Magazine. And from November 1857 to 1865, when it folded, he ran the Liverpool Observer, the first local penny weekly, which was printed by Jackson Southward.
On the failure of the paper John Southward went to London, and was reader for Cox & Wyman (until 1868) and then for Eyre & Spottiswoode.
Southward was interested in philanthropic work, and in 1888 founded and edited for a short time a monthly paper called Charity. During his later years he resided at Streatham.
He died in Saint Thomas"s Hospital, Westminster, after an operation, on 9 July 1902, and was buried in Norwood cemetery. Southward was twice married.