Blackwell, Benjamin Harris (1814–1855)

English bookseller who began bookselling in Oxford in 1846.

The business came to an end when he died, and it was refounded in 1879. In 1912 his son Basil Henry (later Sir Basil Blackwell, 1889–1984) joined the firm and developed its publishing business with the imprints of Basil Blackwell and the Shakespeare Head Press.

In 1919 the firm took the title of B H Blackwell Ltd, Booksellers. A subsequent publishing development was the establishment of Blackwell Scientific Publications.