Staunton, Michael
Staunton, Michael (1788–1870), editor and publisher, was born in Co. Clare into a liberal protestant family (nothing more is known of his parents). As a young man he moved to Dublin, where he succeeded in 1813 to the editorship of the Freeman's Journal, then owned by…...
Stevenson, John
Stevenson, John (1850–1931), printer, inventor, antiquary, and author, was born in Rostrevor, Co. Down, in 1850, eldest among three to five sons of John Stevenson (d. 1881) and Harriet Stevenson (née Walsh; d. 1891). One brother died in childhood and one as a young man; there may…...
Stewart, John Watson
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Stockdale, John
Stockdale, John (d. 1813), printer and bookseller, may have been born in Dublin; nothing is known of his family background. He was a printer's apprentice to Henry Saunders (qv), and in 1772 was admitted free of the guild of St Luke by…...
Sweeney, John Anthony (Tony)
Sweeney, John Anthony (Tony) (1931–2012), horse-racing journalist and bibliophile, was born on 26 June 1931 in London, son of John Sweeney (1887–1940), GPO surveyor, and his wife Kitty, daughter of James Joseph ('J. J.')…...
Swiney, Eugene
Swiney, Eugene (c.1730–1781), printer, publisher, and bookseller, was probably born in Limerick city, son of Miles Sweeny (Swiney); nothing is known of his mother. He appears to have been born as Owen Sweeney but later became known as Eugene Swiney. He was apprenticed to…...
Tempest, Henry Godfrey (Harry)
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Tempest, William
Tempest, William (1835–1918), antiquary and publisher, was born 13 November 1835 in Rostrevor, Co. Down, son of William Tempest and Esther Tempest (née Broughden), originally from Ramelton, Co. Donegal. He was apprenticed at the age of 13 to a newspaper printer in Newry. In 1859,…...
Thom, Alexander
Thom, Alexander (1801–79), printer and founder of Thom's Almanac, was born 18 April 1801 in Scotland (sources variously name Bervie, Findhorn, or Aberdeen as his place of birth), son of Walter Thom, writer, editor, and journalist. He was educated at the High School in…...
Tooke, Benjamin
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Tooke, Benjamin
Tooke, Benjamin (c.1642–1716), bookseller and printer, was born in England, probably the son of the Rev. Thomas Tuke, vicar of St Olave's, though he always spelt his name Took or Tooke. In 1657 he was apprenticed to John Crooke…...
Trimble, Samuel Delmege
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Trimble, William
Trimble, William (1802–88), printer, newspaper proprietor, and editor, was born 12 April 1802 at the Diamond, Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, eldest son of James Trimble (1774–1860), officer of militia, petty sessions clerk, and elder in the secession presbyterian church, and his wife Ann (…...
Ward, John
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Ward, Marcus
Ward, Marcus (1807–47), printer, stationer, and founder of Marcus Ward & Co., was born in Belfast, second son among five sons and two daughters of John Ward (1770–1836) of Jackson Hall, Co. Down, Ulster paper manufacturer and printer, and his wife Margaret (née Davis) (1782–1832…...
Watson, John
Watson, John (d. 1769), bookseller and bookbinder. Nothing is known of his early life. He married (21 April 1722) in St Audoen's church, Dublin, Elizabeth (d. 1753), daughter of Peter Lawrence (d. 1709), bookseller and freeman since 1697. Three months later he petitioned for freedom…...
Watson, Samuel
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Watts (Lynch), Elizabeth
Watts (Lynch), Elizabeth (d. 1794), printer, stationer, and ‘bookseller to the courts of law’, whose origins are unknown, succeeded her first husband Richard Watts (d. November 1762) printer and bookseller, with whom she had four sons and a daughter. She married secondly (14…...
Webb, Richard Davis
Webb, Richard Davis (1805–72), printer and philanthropist, was born in the Cornmarket, Dublin, where his parents had a linen business; he was eldest among seven sons of James Webb and Deborah Webb (née Forrest). The Webbs and Forrests were members of the Society of Friends;…...
Wheatley, John
Wheatley, John (1869–1930), socialist and publisher, was born 19 May 1869 at Bunmahon, Co. Waterford, eldest among three sons and seven daughters of Thomas Wheately, copper miner of Welsh extraction, and Johanna Wheately (née Ryan); it is not known when he came to use the spelling…...
White, John Davis
White, John Davis (1820–93), publisher and antiquary, was born 22 May 1820 in Conaghy, Co. Kilkenny, youngest son among three sons and two daughters of Benjamin Newport White (1776–1846), landowner, late of the Slieveardagh yeomanry cavalry stationed in Killenaule, Co. Tipperary,…...
Wilson, Peter
Wilson, Peter (c.1720–1802), publisher, printer, and bookseller, was probably born in Dublin and spent most of his career working in the city. During his youth he was apprenticed to the printer George Risk of Dublin. By 1739 Wilson established his own bookshop at Gay's Head…...
Wilson, William
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Wogan, Patrick
Wogan, Patrick (c.1740–1816), printer, was born in obscure circumstances: nothing is known of his origins or early life. In 1771 he was in business in Church Street, Dublin, and in 1773 moved to Old Bridge Street, where he transacted for thirty-four years; from 1775 to 1782 he…...
Yeats, Bertha Georgie (‘George’)
Yeats, Bertha Georgie (‘George’) (1892–1968), scholar, occultist, publisher, and wife of William Butler Yeats (qv), was born 16/17 October 1892 at The Grove, Fleet, Hampshire, daughter of William Gilbert Hyde Lees , captain in the 4th…...