Josiah Dornford

Josiah Dornford (1762–3[1] or 1764 – 1797) was an English attorney and political writer proposing reform of debtors' prisons.

Josiah Dornford was the son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford, Kent, a member of the Court of Common Council of the City of London, and the author of several pamphlets on the affairs of that corporation and the reform of debtors' prisons.

[2] He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 23 May 1781, aged eighteen, and graduated BA in 1785 and MA in 1792.

[2] He also published in Latin a small volume of academic exercises by another Göttingen professor, the philologist Heyne, who, in a preface to this publication, speaks of Dornford as a "learned youth" who had "gained the highest honours in jurisprudence in our academy".

[2] His only other known work is The Motives and Consequences of the Present War impartially considered (1793), a political pamphlet written in defence of the Pitt administration.

King Pitt, a Cut Purse of the Empire and the Rule that from a Shelf the precious Diadem stole, and put it in his Pocket (1788). (In his right hand is a document inscribed 'Jo. Durnford's address'.)
Sir Jeffery Dunstan presenting an Address from the Corporation of Garratt ( c. 1788 ) (Image is associated with: Josiah Dornford.)