Leonard Lichfield II (16371686; fl. 16571686)

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Occupations

  • Printer

Names

  • Leonard Lichfield II
  • Leonard Litchfield II

Leonard Lichfield II, printer in Oxford, Holywell, 1657–1686.

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

LICHFIELD (LEONARD), the second, printer in Oxford, Holywell, 1657–86. See Dictionary, 1641–67. Succeeded his father as University Printer in 1657, and was appointed printer of the Oxford Gazette in 1665. In December 1679 he was a candidate for the yeoman bedelship. He died of a fever February 22nd, 1686 [Wood, III. 180], and was succeeded by his son Leonard III.