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A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE
A History of the Aberdeen and Northern Counties Printing
Industry
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Northern Counties - Inverness
The Inverness Journal
and Northern Advertiser
The Inverness Journal and Northern Advertiser was the first newspaper
to be printed in Inverness. it was launched as a weekly in August
1807 by John Young, printer and bookseller, and consisted of four
pages, double crown folio, price sixpence. Young also printed and
published several works in Gaelic and English, perhaps the most
notable being the edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Language
by Dr Robert Couper of Keith, published in 1804.
For a short period Young was solely responsible for the newspaper
until the editorial function was taken over by David Carey, a native
of Arbroath. Carey was also recognised as an author of some versatility
- a poet, novelist and pamphleteer. Among his writings is Craig
Phadrig: Visions of Sensibility with Legendary Tales and Occasional
Pieces, published in 1810, a volume containing much information
on the early history of Inverness.
Carey relinquished the editorship after nearly five years, and around
1814 the Journal obviously changed hands as a new imprint appeared
announcing it was ‘published for himself and other proprietors
by James Beaton’. A few years later another new imprint appeared
announcing that the newspaper was published for the proprietors
by James Fraser.
It was understood the proprietor was really Lachlan Mackintosh of
Raigmore who continued his interest in the newspaper until his death
in 1845. On Mackintosh’s death the Journal ceased publication
for several months but reappeared in 1846 under the management of
Donald Macdonald. The rebirth was short-lived as the newspaper closed
down when Macdonald died two years later.
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Volume 3 published 1996
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