John Oswald

Contributions

1. British Mercury journalist
2. Chronique du mois journalist
3. Leçons au Prince de Galles, Sur la disposition actuelle de l'Europe à une Révolution générale: traduites de l'Anglois, sur la seconde Edition imprimée à Londres translation uncertainty translator
4. The government of the people, or A sketch of a constitution for the universal commonwealth has translation author
5. The London Chronicle journalist
6. The Spirit of the French Constitution, or the Almanach of Goodman Gerard for the Year 1792. Being the third year of the aera of Liberty. A work crowned by the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, held at the Jacobins', Paris. By J.M. Collot d'Herbois, member of the society: Translated, at the request of the author, by John Oswald, member of the society and author of a Review of the Constitution of Great Britain translation has paratext translator
7. The Spirit of the French Constitution, or the Almanach of Goodman Gerard for the Year 1792. Being the third year of the aera of Liberty. A work crowned by the Society of the Friends of the Constitution, held at the Jacobins', Paris. By J.M. Collot d'Herbois, member of the society: Translated, at the request of the author, by John Oswald, member of the society and author of a Review of the Constitution of Great Britain paratext author

Knows

• Nicolas de Bonneville bookseller freemason journalist linguist translator writer
• Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur freemason pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
• Thomas Christie entrepreneur physician translator writer
• Jean-Marie Collot-d'Herbois actor playwright politician revolutionary writer
• John Horne Tooke cleric journalist linguist politician writer
• James Mackintosh historian journalist jurist philosopher physician politician professor writer
• Nicholas Madgett civil servant cleric translator writer
• William Maxwell physician
• Robert Merry poet translator writer
• Eleazer Oswald journalist military publisher
• Thomas Paine journalist philosopher revolutionary writer
• Sampson Perry journalist pamphleteer physician publisher writer
• James Perry actor civil servant entrepreneur journalist pamphleteer
• Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière civil servant politician scientist writer
• John Hurford Stone entrepreneur publisher writer
• David Williams cleric philosopher translator writer
• Helen Maria Williams novelist poet salonnière translator writer

Member of

• Jacobin Club political organisation
• Société des amis des droits de l'homme ('British club') political organisation

Notes

Oswald acts as a liaison between the Jacobin club and various revolutionary societies in England, including the Manchester Constitutional Society and the London Revolution Society.

He also published under the pseudonyms Sylvester Otway and Ignotus.

(Erdman, Commerce des Lumières)