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Floruit: 1754–1775
Floruit 1754 (A) — 1775 (B); Male
Life Events
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Date |
Source
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| Death |
- on 8 Aug 1775 Lond.Daily Advert. (10 Aug 1775) = on Tuesday evening [8 Aug] --- bookseller, in Cornhill, in partnership with John Sewell, by whom the business is carried on. |
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Will
| Will (Ref., Piece, Image) |
Will Dates |
Intestate |
Probate Dates |
Administration Dates |
Comments
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PROB 11/1010
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1775-08-10
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PRO - Bookseller of Cornhill, City of London. ---
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Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
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| Merchant Taylors' Company |
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Occupations (1)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Bookseller |
Master; Will; Directories - see ADDRESSES
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Had Apprentice(s): (1)
Addresses (11)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
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| 1754, (1754) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1754) |
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| 1755, (1755) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1755) |
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| 1756-08-03, (1756) |
Cornhill |
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McKenzie, D.F. (1978) |
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| 1759, (1759) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1759) |
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| 1760, (1760) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Universal (1760) |
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| 1761, (1761) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1761) |
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| 1763, (1763) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1763) |
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| 1763, (1763) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Mortimer (1763) |
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| 1765, (1765) |
Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1765) |
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| 1767, (1767) |
32 Cornhill |
Bookseller |
London Directory - Kent (1767) |
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| 1775-08-10 |
Cornhill |
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Will |
- late of
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Events (3)
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
Plomer, H.R. &c. (1932), p.36
BROTHERTON (JAMES), bookseller and publisher in London, (1) Next door to Tom's Coffee-House in Cornhill, (2) Royal Exchange. Probably a relative of John Brotherton { BROTHERTON, John ‹ LBT 28608 › }, whom he appears to have succeeded in the Cornhill business. In 1761 James was advertising quack medicines [Public Advertiser, January 1st], and his name appears in Kent's Directory for 1768.
About the year 1770 he was joined by John Sewell { SEWELL, John ‹ LBT 20164 › – who had been one of his apprentices}, and they became the publishers of several books and pamphlets dealing with the American colonies [J. C. B. L.]. In 1775 they issued, in partnership with Robson and Walter, a History of Jamaica. A work with a similar title had been published by T. Lowndes { LOWNDES, Thomas ( - 1784) ‹ LBT 28331 › } in the preceding year. James Brotherton either died or retired from business in 1775, and Sewell continued to carry it on alone.