Educationist, and inventor of a shorthand system, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, S England, UK. First a clerk, he became a schoolmaster at Barton-on-Humber, and at Wotton-under-Edge, where he issued his Stenographic Sound Hand (1837). Dismissed from Wotton because he had joined the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) Church, he established a Phonetic Institute for teaching shorthand in Bath (1839). In 1842 he brought out the Phonetic Journal, and in 1845 opened premises in London. He was knighted in 1894.
Sir Isaac Pitman (January 4, 1813 – January 22, 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand.
Isaac Pitman is the grandfather of Sir James Pitman, famous for developing the Initial Teaching Alphabet.
His memorial plaque on the north wall of Bath Abbey reads ' His aims were stedfast, his mind original, his work prodigious, the achievement world-wide. His life, was ordered in service to God and duty to man.'
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