Trader Details

Details for: BILLINGE, Thomas

Name: BILLINGE, Thomas
County: Lancashire
Town: Liverpool
Address(es): Rainsford's Bldgs (1765-6). Pool La (1766-8). 64/62/65 Castle St (1768-1816)
Book Trades: Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, Engraver/etcher (copperplate), Newspaper proprietor
Non-Book Trade: Lotteries (lottery agent), Pharmacy/medicine (pharmacist/druggist/chemist/patent medicine seller)
Trading Dates: 1765 (before) - 1816
Biographical Dates: 1741 (date of birth) - 1816 (date of death)
Notes: glass flowerer. Part Alice Williamson, 1785-90. Stock-in-trade sold by Jas Rosson Aug 1816, & interest in Billinge's `Liverpool Advertiser' Nov 1816. Bankrupt 1810
Sources:
  • Liverpool Bibliographical Society, The Book Trade in Liverpool to 1805: a directory (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project, Occ. Pub. 1, 1981)
  • British Chronicle continued as Hereford Journal (sometimes with issue number)
  • Extra source information - 2024
  • Liverpool Bibliographical Society, The Book Trade in Liverpool from 1806 to 1850: a directory (Liverpool, Book Trade in the North West Project, Occ. Pub. 2, 1987)


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