Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Joseph Champion
Joseph Champion,
PENMAN.
This celebrated professor of a useful art, was born at Chatham in 1709. He received his education at Johnson's Free Writing School in Foster Lane, London. He set up a boarding school in St. Paul's Church Yard, and subsequently in Bedford, at both of which academies he had many scholars, some of them persons of rank. He published a great number of Manuals upon Penmanship, and contributed 47 folio pieces to "Bickham's Universal Penman," in which he displays a beautiful variety of writing, both for ornament and use. He died about 1762.
[See "Massey's Origin of Letters," "Bromley's and Evan's Catalogues of Engraved Portraits."]