Richard Baldwin II (d. 1777; fl. 1746–1777)

BALDWIN, RICHARD (II). He died at Birmingham on June 4, 1777, aged eighty-six years, and may possibly have been the son of Richard and Anne Baldwin above, though that is by no means certain. The earliest mention of him which I have found goes back to November, 1746, when he was publishing at the sign of the Rose in Paternoster Row. He was still at the same address in 1760. Iun [sic.] April, 1747, he bought the publishing rights of the London Magazine from Astley, and continued to issue it under his own name until his death.

—Frederick T. Wood, 18 July 1931

BALDWIN,RICHARD, (II). At the Rose in Paternoster Row (1746–1760), Chubb, in his ' Printed Maps of Great Britain,' says that this man "was the son of Richard Baldwin, bookseller, of St. Paul's Churchyard," but unfortunately he gives no closer address for the father, and I have found no other trace of him. Hilton Price extends the son's date to 1766. Chubb says that Richard Baldwin II died in January, 1770, though DR. WOOD seems to have good reason for saying that he died in Birmingham on June 4, 1777." Chubb adds that "he was succeeded by Robert Baldwin, a nephew of the elder Richard, who carried on the business until 1810."

—Ambrose Heal, 8 August 1931