Rhames, Francis

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1778–1809

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Address(es): 

16 Exchange Street

Details: 

Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Rhames.

Succeeded the business of his mother after her death in 1778. He carried on the business in his mother's name until 1806 after which he used his own name.

In the Dublin Directory of 1809 he is referred to as 'Frederick [sic] Rhames, music seller and haberdasher'.

Succeeded in business by Paul Alday in 1809 (Munter).

[Dates differ according to sources: Munter gives the last date as 1809. Kerry and Boydell (Card Index give the date as 1810.]

See Also: 

Alday, Paul
Rhames, Benjamin
Rhames, Elizabeth

Source(s): 

Dublin Directories

Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 272

Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 232

Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 261

Kerry, Frances P., 'The Music Scene in Dublin During the Late Eighteenth Century (1790–1800)' (unpublished masters thesis, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1994), p. 32

Boydell, Barra, 'The Development of the Dublin Music Print Trade to 1800', Long Room (1996), pp.25-33 (p. 31)

McHale, Maria, 'Music', in The Irish Book in English 1800–1891, ed. by James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 595–601 (p. 596)

Boydell, Brian, ‘Alday, Paul’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

Boydell, Brian, ‘Rhames, Francis’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

Last Update: 20-05-2021