Hansard, record of the proceedings and debates in the British Parliament, published by the printers Hansard, the founder of the firm being Luke Hansard, a printer of Norwich, who came to London in 1770 as a compositor, and succeeded as proprietor of the business in which he was a workman; (d. 1828).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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