Details for: SLACK, Thomas
| Name: |
SLACK, Thomas |
| County: |
Northumberland |
| Town: |
Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Address(es): |
Union St (1768-78). Groat Market (1778) |
| Book Trades: |
Printer, Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Pharmacy/medicine (pharmacist/druggist/chemist/patent medicine seller) |
| Trading Dates: |
1751 ? - 1784 |
| Biographical Dates: |
1719 ? - 1784 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Trading as T Slack & Co (1766-8): At the printing press, the head of the Middle St. Master of Solomon Hodgson who married Thomas Slack's daughter in 1785 and succeeded Slack after his death. For details of will see Will PRO: PROB/11/105/171 |
| Sources: |
- Wallis, P.J., The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860: a supplement to C J Hunt's Biographical Dictionary (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1981)
- Hunt, C.J., The Book Trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860 (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1975)
- Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
- Information for Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire north of the Sands
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