Isaac
Pitman,
the brother of Benjamin Pitman, was
born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on 4th January, 1813. He worked as
a clerk in a textile mill before before training to become a teacher.
Pitman taught at Wotton-under-Edge (1832-36).
Pitman developed his own shorthand system and published details in
his book Stenographic Sound Hand
(1837). He established his own school in Bath
where he taught shorthand. In 1842 he began publishing the Phonetic
Journal and three years later
opened another school in London. Pitman,
who was knighted in 1894, died in Somerset on 12th January, 1897.
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