[1] He lectured successfully also in the North of England, and adopted the style "Professor".
[2] While he at times claimed a closer relationship with the London Institution, professionally he was paid there only as an assistant librarian, by William Maltby.
His presumption of a position at the Institute caused friction in the end, and he had to drop any such claim.
[4] Partington published the following:[1] Partington edited The British Cyclopædia of Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Geography, Law and Politics, Natural History and Biography, from 1835; the tenth and last volume appeared in 1837.
With the civil engineer William Newton, he edited and partly wrote the second series of The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, containing descriptions of every new patent; also original communications on science and philosophy; this periodical went to nine volumes, 1834–42.