Thomas Lowndes (fl. 1749–1784)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 503

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher
  • Circulating Library Keeper

Thomas Lowndes, bookseller, publisher, and circulating library keeper (1749–84); at the Bible and Crown, Exeter Change (1749); in Exeter Court, Exeter Change, Fleet Street (1775); at 77 Fleet Street.

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)

LOWNDES (THOMAS), bookseller and publisher in Fleet Street, 1756–84. Born 1719. Began business in Fleet Street in 1756. A publisher of plays. Died November 7th, 1784, and was buried in St. Bride's. [Timperley, 1842, p. 752.] A native of Cheshire. He had an extensive circulating library in Fleet Street. He was a strong minded, uneducated man, rough in his manners, but of sterling integrity; and is supposed to have been delineated by Miss Burney in her novel Cecilia under the name of Briggs. [Nichols, III. 646.]