Thomas Dawks the younger (1636–1696; fl. 1652 – 1696?)

DAWKS (THOMAS), the younger, printer in London, (1) Blue Anchor, west end of Paul's; (2) Blue Anchor, Ludgate Street; (3) Blackfriars; (4) end of Thames Street, next Puddle Dock; (5) His Majesty's British Printer, west end of Thames Street; (6) on Addle Hill in Carter Lane. 1652–96 (?). Son of Thomas Dawks, printer [d. 1670]. Born at Kelmscott in Oxfordshire, October 8th, 1636. Admitted at Merchant Taylors' School, April 2nd, 1649. Began as a printer at the private press of the Master, W. Du Card, and from 1652 to 1657 was employed as a compositor on Walton's Polyglot Bible; he afterwards worked at John Darby's printing house in Bartholomew Close. He married in December 1660, and his son Ichabod was born at Westerham, Kent, on September 22nd, 1661. On May 16th, 1673, Thomas and his son were working in the office of Mrs. Maxwell, from which they went to Mrs. Flesher's printing house on October 5th, 1673. Thomas Dawks set up as a master printer in Blackfriars in May 1674; in Hil. 1680 he and his son printed a Methodical History of the Popish Plot. [T.C. I. 384.] In the previous year, however, his address is given as The Blue Anchor at the west end of Paul's and also as in Ludgate Street. These evidently refer to one and the same house, which was doubtless a warehouse or shop for the sale of books, distinct from the printing houses. In the True Protestant Mercury of June 22–5, 1681, he advertised his removal to Thames Street, near Puddle Dock, and in 1685 his office was in Addle Hill in Carter Lane. His name occurs for the last time in the Term Catalogues in Easter 1689 [T.C. n. 252], but his entries there are few. The date of his death is unknown; but his name occurs as publisher of Dawks' News Letter on August 4th, 1696. His daughter Dorothy married first Benjamin Allport and secondly William Bowyer the elder. [D.N.B.; Nichols, Lit. Anecd., i. 3, 4; Timperley, p. 660.] 

Dawks, Thomas, the younger (b. 1636), printer, born at Kelmscott in Oxfordshire 8 Oct. 1636, was admitted at Merchant Taylors' School 2 April 1649. Two years later he was apprenticed to a printer of the name of Dugard. Between 1653 and 1657 he was employed as a compositor on Walton's Polyglott bible. In May 1673 he was overseer to a Mrs. Maxwell, and in the same month of the ensuing year he set up as a master in Blackfriars. He married his wife Anne in December 1660, and had eleven children, of whom the eldest was Ichabod [q. v.] His daughter Dorothy married first a bookseller of the name of Allport, and afterwards William Bowyer the elder [q. v.]

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