Benson, Thomas

Dates Active in Dublin:

1726–1731

Business Type:

Bookseller

Music publisher

Music seller

Address(es):

Shakespeare's Head, Castle Street

Details:

Apprentice to Eliphal Dobson (Munter).

Advertised in the Dublin Weekly Journal.

[Dates differ according to sources: Boydell (Calendar) gives the date of 1728 only. Munter gives the dates as 1726 to 1731. Pollard gives them as 1726 to 1729.]

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Published

Coffey, Charles, The Beggar's Wedding, a New Opera as it is acted at the Theatre in Dublin, with Great Applause, 1729 [printed by S. Powell for Thomas Benson] [libretto only]

See Also:

Dobson, Eliphal (ii)
Powell, Samuel

Source(s):

Dublin Weekly Journal, 16 November 1728, p. 2

Berry, Henry F., 'House and Shop Signs in Dublin in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 5th ser., 40.2 (30 June 1910), 81–98 (p. 87)

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

Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), pp. 25–26

Pollard, M., A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550–1800: Based on the Records of the Guild of St Luke the Evangelist Dublin (London: Bibliographical Society, 2000), p. 30

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

Last Update: 12-02-2017

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