William Wilkins (d. 1751; fl. 1700–1751)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 110

Occupations

  • Printer

William WIlkins, printer, 1700–51, in Little Britain.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

WILKINS (WILLIAM), printer in London, Little Britain, 1700–51. The favourite printer of the Whig party. He printed The Whitehall Evening Post and several other London newspapers. Gent was employed by him for a time. [Davies, p. 148.] He died in 1751, and bequeathed a portrait of Dr. Benjamin Hoadly to the Stationers' Company. [Timperley, p. 680.]