Joseph Whitaker (publisher)

He was the father of fifteen children; the eldest, Joseph Vernon Whitaker was editor of the American Literary Gazette, and later returned to England to become editor of the Bookseller and the Reference Catalogue. Cuthbert Whitaker, the twelfth child, succeeded his father as editor of the Almanack.

A fourth-generation descendant, David Whitaker, was involved with the development of International Standard Book Numbers.^[4]

Whitaker died at 68 Silver Street, Enfield, on 15 May 1895, where he had lived since 1862. He was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.^[5]

The British bookseller and publisher George Byrom Whittaker (1793–1847) was not related to Joseph Whitaker.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Whitaker, Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 597.
• Tedder, Henry Richard (1900). "Whitaker, Joseph" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• H. R. Tedder, Whitaker, Joseph (1820–1895) rev. Joseph Coohill, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 (Subscription required)

• Rachel Elisabeth Calder, 'Mechanic’ to the book trade: Joseph Whitaker and information services in the Victorian book trade, (Thesis submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy), Department of Information Studies, University College London, ucl.ac.uk