Sir Isaac Pitman Knighted.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 743, 1 June 1894, Page 3

Sir Isaac Pitman Knighted.

LONDON, May 22

Mr Isaac Pitman, the inventor of tbe shorthand system which bears his name, has been knighted. [lsaac Pitman, the inventor of Pitman’s weliknown system of shorthand writing, ■was born at Towerbridge, in 1813. He was educated at the Borough Road College of the British and Foreign School Society, becoming afterwards master of the British (school at Barton-on-llumber. He removed to Bath in 1839, where he subsequently established the Phonetic Institute, and set up a press for printing his own handbooks of phonetic shorthand, and a series of classical works in phonetic type. Mr Pitman is editor of the Phonetic Journal, which is devoted to the advocacy of writing and spelling reform. On the occasion of the International Shorthand Congress, held in London in 1887, the family of Mr Pitman were presented with his bust, a replica of which was subscribed for by his fellow-townsmen at Bath, and placed in one of tbe public institutions of that city. At a Congress held at the Holborn Restaurant in March 1889, to celebrate the jubilee of phonography, Mr Pitman was presented with a handsome gold medal struck to commemorate the event.]