John Hurford Stone 

John Hurford Stone (1763-1818) was a radical printer and writer from Taunton, Somerset. He was a Unitarian and member of Price’s congregation in Hackney. He became friends with Priestley, joined the London Revolution Society. He removed to Paris in April 1792 to establish a factory there, and here met Helen Maria Williams, whom he had probably met in London previously through Unitarian circles. He established a printing house there for the English expatriates, publishing Joel Barlow’s The Vision of Columbus. He and his wife were arrested twice and in April 1794 were told to leave the country, and that July they accompanied Williams and Benjamin Vaughan to Switzerland, remaining there for six months. He returned to Paris, living with Williams, and published numerous works by his press. In 1812 his business failed as a result of a poor publishing decision. He, like Williams, became a naturalized French citizen in 1817.