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Floruit: 1838–1886
Floruit 1838 (A) — 1886 (A); Male, married
Life Events
| Event |
Date |
Source
|
| Birth |
1814 |
St.Co. - Beadle's Book, p.171
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| Death |
- on 3 Nov 1886 |
St.Co. - Beadle's Book, p.171
|
Family Relationships
Livery Companies
| Company |
Source
|
| Stationers' Company |
|
Stationers' Company Titles (1)
| Title |
From |
To |
Notes
|
| Assistant |
1880-06-01 |
1886-11-03 |
Chosen; Died
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Occupations (3)
| Occupation |
Comment
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| Printer |
Apprentice
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| Printer |
Beadle's Book
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| Publisher |
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Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
Addresses (48)
| Date |
Address |
Trade at Addr |
Source |
Comment
|
| 1838, (1838) |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book |
|
| 1839, (1839) |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book |
|
| 1840, (1840) |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book |
|
| 1841-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1842-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1843-07-04 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1844-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1845-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1846-07-04 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1847-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1848-07-01 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1849-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1850-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1851-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1852, (1852) |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book |
|
| 1853-07-02 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1854-07-01 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1855-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1856-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1857-07-04 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1858-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1859-07-02 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1860-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1861-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1862-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1863-07-07 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1864-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1865-07-04 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1866-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1867-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1868-07-04 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1870-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1871-08-01 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1872-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1873-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1874-07-04 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1875-07-03 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1876-07-01 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1877-06-30 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1878-07-06 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1879-07-05 |
Duke Street, Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1880-07-03 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1881-07-05 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1882-07-04 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1883-06-30 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1884-07-05 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1885-07-04 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
| 1886-07-03 |
Stamford Street |
|
Beadle's Book; Livery List |
|
Events (7)
Attendance after 3 Jul 1830 remains to be listed
Further Notes
Beadle's Book, p.171 - Personaly £31,492.7.5 --- Publisher Circular, 15 Nov 1886, pp.1363-1364 Although for more than a month previously his nearest relatives were aware that, once again, a good life hung upon a very slender thread, the extensive circle of Mr.George Clowes' friends received a painful shock by the intelligence of his death, which occurred on the morning of th 3rd inst. At Oak Hill, Surbiton, his residence for the past four and twenty years. Having been born in 1814, Mr.Clowes was in the 73 year of his age at the time of his decease. The distinguished printer and publisher was a son of William Clowes, the founder of the famous house with which the name is indissolubly connected. It is interesting to revive the recorded account of the origin of the firm. William Clowes, the founder (born at Chichester in 1779), was a son of an Oxford alumnus, who conducted a large school in the city first mentioned. Some time after the death of his father, William was apprenticed to a printer at Chichester. In 1802 he came to London and, after working as a compositor for about a year, started business in Villiers Street, Strand. A small capital of £350 gave him foot-ground, but he himself fixed the rungs of the ladder of fortune. After working at the case throughout the day, he would often, night after night, toil at press, so that the types he had - limited enough in quantity - might be distributed for the next days work. Difficult though it be to imagine the method of such labour now-a-days, it is nevertheless certain that men, even in present times, are making their mark in our midst by similar painstaking and self-denying exertions. William Clowes steadfast labours were rewarded by merited success. Hbegan with one press in 1803, when he died in 1843 he was at the head of the immense establishment in Duke Street, Stamford Street, employing over 600 persons, then the largest printing concern in the world. Most important of all the associations of his life was his connection with the momentous and distincly characteristic literary departure which has signalised the progress of the century. The movement of the diffusing of literature among the people had no more zealous supporter than William Clowes, for fourteen years The Penny Magazine and The Penny Cyclopaedia were issued from the press, publications which may be said to have set in motion among the people the modern impulse of learning, which has been so worthily upheld by Chambers; John Cassell, and others. Mr.George Clowes, who has just passed to the majority, was the last surviving son of William Clowes. The year of his birth, as we have stated, was 1814. After being educated at Mr.Lords School (a seminary then very well known) at Tooting, and at London University College, the intention was that the young student should become a barrister; but, relinquishing the pupose of entering the overcrowded ranks at the Bar, he sensibly adopted his fathers business, in which the connection was very widely and rapidly extending. In 1837 he married the eldest daughter of Charles Knight. In Mr.Knight's schemes for the diffusion of knowledge, the Times remarks, Mr.Clowes took the greatest interest, and he was invariably consulted by his father-in-law in all his large undertakings. The inimitable friendship that existed between Mr.Knight and Douglas Jerold, Charles Dickens, and others of that school, was extended naturally to Mr.Clowes, whose genial manner, ready wit, and general interest in literature, rendered him an acquisition to their many pleasant meetings. Mr.Clowes took a prominent part in the 1851 exhibition, in the production of the Catalogues and other official publications, and had the honour of presenting copies of the Catalogue to the Queen and Prince Consort. He took great interest, the Times also says, in the scheme for producing the present Law Reports. When, in 1863, the Bar resolved to set on foot a better system of law reporting, and were in some difficulty as to the financial part of the undertaking, they appealed for assistance, and he undertook the business in question. According to the Bar scheme, a sum of £10,000 was to be guaranteed for payment of reporters and other expenses before the council appointed by the Bar to arrange the matter could proceed with the arrangements. The actual subscriptions did not amount to the specified sum, and Mr.Clowes offered on behalf of his firm to make good whatever number of subscriptions might be required to raise the sum of £10,000, so as technically to satisfy the terms of the Bar scheme. These terms were at once accepted. The offer proved to be merely precautionary, and was never acted on. Mr.Clowes was for many years auditor to the Guild of Literature - a scheme which, it will be remembered, was of great interest to the late Lord Lytton, who gave at Knebworth what is now almost an historical banquet to celebrate the opening of the almshouses at Stevenage. Mr.Clowes took an active part in the printing business till with the last year. The deceased gnetleman was a member of the Royal Institution, of the Geographical Society, of the Society of Arts, and of the Alpine Club. It is superfluous to refer to Mr.Clowes's well-known business capacity, or to the deep interest which he invariably took in the surroundings of the printers' calling. Such attributes are as familiar as his intimate associations with many public affairs devised for the progress and advantage of the country. No on, however, who had not the privelege of Mr.Clowes' acquaintance could fully comprehend the kindness of his disposition and the thoroughness of his motives. Naturally in the house circle the loss will be severly felt; for his lovable disposition was there seen in its wamrest light. Sincere sympathy must be felt for the family which has lost so good a guardian, of whom a griend has said "his temper was so good and his bearing so genial that I doubt his having ever made and enemy." ---
Sources and References
| Original Sources |
Comments
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| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by M.L.Turner |
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