England) S. W. Partridge & Co. (London

S. W. Partridge & Co. was a London publishing firm rather than a single personal author. Reliable sources connect the company with Samuel William Partridge (1810–1903), who began his career in printing, later formed Partridge & Oakley, and then reorganized the business under the name S. W. Partridge & Co. after that partnership ended.

The firm is also tied to Thomas Bywater Smithies, who founded the publishing house in 1855 to publish The British Workman, a Victorian periodical aimed at working-class readers and strongly associated with temperance and moral improvement. Over time, the company became known for a broad range of illustrated and religiously themed publications, as well as family and juvenile reading.

Samuel William Partridge himself was not only a publisher but also a writer of poetry and hymns. Sources note that he retired in 1882, and that he is especially associated with the Christian poetry volume Upward and Onward. Because the credited name here refers to the publishing house, not a clearly documented individual portrait subject, a profile image is best left unavailable.