Beeby, James

James Beeby invented a system of shorthand in the late-18th or early 19th century. The system was adopted by some users, including Anne Isabella Byron, Lord Byron's wife, but later systems superseded Beeby's by the mid-19th century.

From the guide to the James Beeby Shorthand Prayer Book, Beeby, James Shorthand Prayer Book, 1844, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)