Trader Details

Details for: LACKINGTON, George

Name: LACKINGTON, George
County: London
Town: London
Address(es): Finsbury Sq. 4 Pall Mall East
Book Trades: Bookseller, Music seller
Non-Book Trade: Not known
Trading Dates: 1792 - 1826 (after)
Biographical Dates: 1768 (date of birth) - 1844 (date of death)
Notes: Related to James Lackington. Entered Lackington's business aged 13. His father bought him a share of Lackington, Allen & Co & he succeeded J Lackington as its head in 1798. Succeeeded by Joseph Harding as senior partner
Sources:
  • Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Folkestone, 1977)
    Maxted, Ian, The London Book Trades, 1735-1775: a checklist of members in trade directories and in Musgrave's 'Obituary' (Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History No.3, 1984)


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