Thomas Hinton was a printer in Cirencester who produced the first edition of the Cirencester Post or Gloucestershire Mercury in about October or November 1718.[1][2] He is known to have been active as a printer in the town between 1709 and 1724.[citation needed] The Cirencester printer Samuel Rudder was married in 1749 to a Mary Hinton, and it has been speculated that Mary may have been related to Thomas Hinton.[3]
References
edit- ^ Plomer, Henry R. (1915) A Short History of English Printing. 2nd edn. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., p. 209.
- ^ "Notes on The First Bristol and Gloucestershire Printers" by F.A. Hyett in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1895-97, Vol. 20, 38-51.
- ^ Nicholas Herbert, ‘Rudder, Samuel (bap. 1726, d. 1801)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 7 Jan 2012
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