Henry Sampson Woodfall

Henry Sampson Woodfall (21 June 1739 – 12 December 1805) was an English printer and journalist.

Woodfall's grandfather Henry Woodfall (c. 1686–1747), was the author of the ballad Darby and Joan, for which John Darby and his wife were the originals: the elder Woodfall had been apprenticed in 1701 to Darby, a printer in Bartholomew Close in the Little Britain area of London, who died in 1730.

[2] Woodfall's grandfather printed many of the works of Alexander Pope.

[3] Woodfall's uncle George was a bookseller in Charing Cross.

[4][7] William Woodfall's nickname was "Memory" Woodfall based on his ability to memorize Parliamentary speeches at a time when journalists were not allowed to take notes or write down speeches while they were being delivered.