Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sir Isaac Pitman (January 4 1813-1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge. He was the vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. He was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England. Isaac Pitman is the grandfather of Sir James Pitman, famous for developing the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Quotes "Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind." "I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author." This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.