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American newspaper editor
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17 May 1760
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24 November 1835(Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
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Biography
William Duane was an Irish-American journalist. He moved to Calcutta in 1788, and founded the Bengal Journal in 1791. Later that year, after the Governor-General of India John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth shut down the Bengal Journal for a libel against the French royalist government in exile in Calcutta, Duane founded his second newspaper, The World. He was deported for a libel in this newspaper in 1794 and emigrated to the United States where he founded the Aurora.
William John Duane was his son.