Brewer's: Woodfall

brother of the Woodfall of Junius, and editor of the Morning Chronicle. Woodfall would attend a debate, and, without notes, report it accurately next morning. He was called Memory Woodfall. (1745-1803.)

W. Radcliffe could do the same.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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