biography
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| lived:
| (1706–75)
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| biography:
| Printer, born in Wolverley, Hereford and Worcester, WC England, UK. He became a writing master in Birmingham, and from 1740 carried on a successful japanning (varnishing) business there. In c.1750 he began to make experiments in letter founding, and produced the types named after him. His works include editions of Virgil, Milton, and the Bible. In 1758 he became printer to Cambridge University. |
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