<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> Irish </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Residence </Th> <Td> Kolkata, India </Td> </Tr> <P> James Augustus Hicky was an Irishman who launched the first printed newspaper in Asia, Hicky's Bengal Gazette . </P> <P> Hicky was born in Ireland around the year 1740 . While young, he moved to London to apprentice with William Faden, a Scottish printer . However, Hicky never took his freedom from the printers' guild, and instead secured a clerkship with an English lawyer, Sarjeant Davy . At some point Hicky quit his career in law, and, after a brief attempt practicing as a surgeon in London, he boarded an East Indiaman as a surgeon's mate bound for Calcutta in 1772 . </P>

First man who introduced printing press in india