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Robert Stephen Rintoul BritishThe former Kingdom of Great Britain, sometimes described as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN. was a sovereign...
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, was born at Tibbermore,
PerthshirePerthshire, officially the County of Perth , is a registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south...
, in 1787, and educated at the
AberdalgieAberdalgie is a village in the Scottish council area of Perth and Kinross. It is located southwest of Perth, to the south of the B9112 road in Strathearn....
parish school. After serving his apprenticeship to the printing trade he became the printer and subsequently the editor of the
Dundee AdvertiserThe Courier & Advertiser, more commonly known as simply The Courier, is a broadsheet newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland...
.
In 1826 he went to
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where he was editor of The Atlas before, in July 1828 with the assistance of friends, founding
The SpectatorThe Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
. In this publication Rintoul strongly supported the
Reform BillThe Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...
, and to him was due the catchphrase "The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill".
After publishing and managing the affairs of the
The Spectator for more than thirty years, he sold it shortly before his death.