Charles Rivington II (1731–1790; fl. 1746–1790)
Charles Rivington II, printer, publisher, and stationer, 1746–1790; in White Lyon Court, 1746; in Staining Lane, 1753–1784; at 4 Maiden Lane, 1784; in Noble Street, 1763–1790.
A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)
RIVINGTON (CHARLES), junior, printer in London, (1) White Lyone Court; (2) Steyning Lane. 1746–90. Third son of Charles Rivington, publisher (1711–42). Articled to Samuel Richardson the printer and publisher (q.v.), on August 9th, 1746, and afterwards succeeded to his printing business. He was appointed City printer in 1771, and resigned in 1772. Timperley says that "he carried on an extensive business for thirty-two years in Steyning-Lane, in a noble house which had formerly been the residence of a Lord Mayor" (p. 770). He died June 22nd, 1790. [S. Rivington, The Publishing Family of Rivington, p. 40.]