WOODFALL, HENRY SAMPSON English printer and journalist, born in London on June 21, 1739. His father, Henry Woodfall, was the printer of the Public Advertiser, and the author of the ballad Darby and Joan, for which his son's employer, John Darby, and his wife, were the originals. From 1758-93 H. S. Woodfall controlled the Public Advertiser in which appeared the famous letters of "Junius." He died on Dec. 52,
1805. His younger brother, William Woodfall (1746-1803), also a journalist, established in 1789 a daily paper called the Diary, in which, for the first time, reports of the parliamentary debates were published on the morning after they had taken place.