Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791
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Name (Latin)
Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791
Other forms of name
Davis, L. (Lockyer), 1719-1791
Date of birth
1719-01-17
Date of death
1791-04-23
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Poinsinet de Sivry, L. An essay on laughter, wherein are displayed, its natural and moral causes, with the arts of exciting it, 1769:title page (Printed for ... L. Davis near Gray's Inn, Holdorn)
- His A catalogue of a very large collection of valuable and curious books, 1770:t.p. (Lockyer Davis)
- DNB(Davis, Lockyer, 1719-1791; bookseller)
Wikipedia description:
Lockyer John Davis (1717–1791) was a bookseller and printer for the Royal Society. He was baptised at St Bartholomew-the-Great, London, on 14 November 1717. He was apprenticed to his uncle, Charles Davis, a bookseller, in 1732 and elected to the livery of the Worshipful Company of Stationers in 1746. He was in partnership with Charles Reymers, who died in April 1769. He married Mary Reimers in 1746 at St Dunstan in the West, London. Their daughter, Mary Davis, married bookseller John Egerton on 11 October 1783 in Westminster. John Egerton was the business partner of Thomas Egerton. Davis died in Holborn in 1791.
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