Isaac Pitman

Publishing
Pitman founded a company called Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons which became a one of the world's leading educational publiIsaac Pitmanrs and training businesses. In the 1881 census his name is spelt phonetically as Eisak Pitman. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge - The British School Wotton-under-Edge.

Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 12 January 1897) an Englishman knighted in 1894 developed the most widely used system of shorthand known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837.