William Duane (journalist)

William Duane
Born	17 May 1760
Died	24 November 1835 (aged 75) Philadelphia

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.

...
Wikipedia