Daniel Lovell

Daniel Lovell (died 27 December 1818) was an English journalist, involved in high-profile court cases concerned with press freedom.

[1] In 1811, Lovell was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for copying the reporting of Manchester papers on the conduct of the military at Sir Francis Burdett's arrest; in contrast the original publishers of the libel were only asked to express regret at their inadvertence.

[1] On 23 November 1814, Samuel Whitbread and Anthony Browne, Whig Members of Parliament, took up Lovell's case.

Lovell was still unable to meet the requirement for a security, and on 17 March 1815 Whitbread again presented a petition from him, stating his utter inability to do as he had been asked, and calling the merciful consideration of the House of Commons, he having been confined nearly four years in Newgate.

In 1817, he was again heavily fined for writing abusively about the evening paper The Courier and its editor Daniel Stuart, which closely supported the government.

General Jail Delivery , satirical engraving of the time of Lovell's first imprisonment; the publication The Statesman is shown held (back to the left) by a man talking to a barrister; towards the front William Cobbett holds The Register , and Peter Finnerty is shown in a piece of pillory .