Cyrus Redding

Cyrus Redding (1785–1870) was a British journalist and wine writer.

The son of a Baptist minister, he was privately educated.

1807) before editing the Plymouth Chronicle and then the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser which he founded in 1810.

[contradictory] He edited the Bath Guardian (1834–5) and the Staffordshire Examiner (1836–40).

To his earlier novel, Gabrielle (1829), a children's book on shipwrecks (1833) and his history of wine (1833), he now began a series of county histories, memoirs of William Beckford and Thomas Campbell, and volumes of autobiography and reminiscences.