Charles Frederick Partington

Charles Frederick Partington (died 1857?) was a British science lecturer and writer.

Life Partington was associated with the London Institution. While he at times claimed a closer relationship with the London Institution, professionally he was paid there only as an assistant librarian, by William Maltby. His presumption of a position at the Institute caused friction in the end, and he had to drop any such claim. Partington lectured also at the other institutes in London (the Russell Institution, Surrey Institution, and London Mechanics Institute). He lectured to the short-lived London Chemical Society in 1824.

Works Partington published the following: Bernard Adams, however, attributes the majority to Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, his brother, working with H. West. The engraver was J. Shury. The Builder's Complete Guide, 1852. Introductory Account of Messrs. Muir and Company's Machinery for the Manufacture of Rifle Sights, 1857.

Edited works Partington edited The British Cyclopædia of Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Geography, Law and Politics, Natural History and Biography, from 1835; the tenth and last volume appeared in 1837. The divisions were:

Arts and Sciences; Natural History; Biography; and Literature, History and Geography.

Partington wrote: division 1 parts i.–xxv., division 2 parts i.–xxiv., division 3 parts i.–xi.

Other edited works were:

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics and Hydrostatics, by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present state of science (1825) The Century of Inventions, by the Marquis of Worcester, with Notes and a Biographical Memoir (1825) The Mechanics' Gallery of Science and Art, 1825, vol. i.; no more printed.

Periodicals Partington edited The Scientific Gazette, or Library of Mechanical Philosophy, Chemistry, and Discovery, which ran from July 1825 to 4 February 1826. With the civil engineer William Newton, he edited and partly wrote the second series of The London Journal of Arts and Sciences, containing descriptions of every new patent; also original communications on science and philosophy; this periodical went to nine volumes, 1834–42.