Jackson and Walford

Jackson and Walford, later known as Jackson, Walford, and Hodder was a British publishing firm based in London that was the predecessor of Hodder & Stoughton. The publishers with their successive name changes were one of many London publishers that operated around St. Paul's Churchyard and Paternoster Row.

Jackson & Walford

Company type	Private company
Industry	Publishing
Founder	Messrs. Jackson and Walford
Defunct	1868
Fate	Became an imprint of Houder & Stoughton
Headquarters	18 St Paul's Churchyard and 27 Paternoster Row, London , England
Area served	England and Wales
Key people	Messrs. Jackson and Walford, Matthew Hodder, and Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton
Services	Book Publisher
Website	www.hodder.co.uk

History

Jackson and Walford from 1861 was a London publishing firm and predecessor firm of Hodder & Stoughton. Situated at 18 St Paul's Churchyard and 27 Paternoster Row in 1871 (which was the former address of the later Ward & Co.).

They published the Congregational Year Books, which were the publications of the "Congregational Union of England and Wales, and the Confederated Societies."^[1]

Matthew Hodder apprenticed there from the age of fourteen and became a partner in 1861. Upon the retirement of Messrs. Jackson and Walford in 1868, Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton joined Hodder and the firm was renamed Hodder & Stoughton. The firm then published both religious and secular works and has survived into the present day as an imprint of Hodder Headline.