Lockyer John Davis (1717–1791) was a bookseller and printer for the Royal Society. He was baptised at St Bartholomew-the-Great, London, on 14 November 1717.[1] He was apprenticed to his uncle, Charles Davis, a bookseller, in 1732 and elected to the livery of the Worshipful Company of Stationers in 1746.[1]

He was in partnership with Charles Reymers,[1] who died in April 1769.[2]

He married Mary Reimers in 1746 at St Dunstan in the West, London.[3] Their daughter, Mary Davis, married bookseller John Egerton on 11 October 1783 in Westminster.[4][5] John Egerton was the business partner of Thomas Egerton.

Davis died in Holborn in 1791.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d *Brack. O. M., "Davis, Lockyer John (1717–1791)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. (Access via libraries).
  2. ^ Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 20 April 1769, p3
  3. ^ Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850, Findmypast (Subscription required)
  4. ^ Stamford Mercury, 23 January, 1795, p2
  5. ^ England Marriages 1538-1973, Findmypast (subscription required)

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