Details for: GOADBY, Robert
| Name: |
GOADBY, Robert |
| County: |
Dorset |
| Town: |
Sherborne |
| Address(es): |
None |
| Book Trades: |
Bookseller, Printer, Publisher |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1749 - 1778 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1721 (date of birth) - 1778 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Partner & successor Samuel Lerpiniere, nephew. Succeeded also by brother Samuel. Possibly proprietor of The Sherborne Mercury. Died 12/8/1778. Also in Bath & Yeovil |
| Sources: |
- Plomer, Henry R. et al, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775 (London, 1932)
- Ferdinand, Christine, 'The Salisbury Journal 1729-1785: a study of a provincial newspaper', DPhil. Thesis, Oxford University (1990)
- Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1812)
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