Rychard Totell (d. 1593; fl. 1550–1593)
Identifiers
- Grubstreet: 47965
- VIAF: 79450
Occupations
- Printer
Names
- Richard Tottell
- Richard Tottyll
- Richard Tottel
- Richard Tottyl
- Richard Tottill
- Rychard Totell
- Richard Tottle
- Richarde Tottyll
- Richard Tottil
- Richard Totthil
- Richarde Tottill
- Richarde Tottle
- Rycharde Totell
- Richarde Tottil
- Richarde Tottell
- Richard Tothill
A Century of the English book Trade ... from the Issue of the First Dated Book in 1457 to the Incorporation of the Company of Stationers in 1557, by E. Gordon Duff (1905)
TOTTELL (RICHARD), printer in London, is supposed to have been third son of Henry Tottell of Exeter. In 1552 he received a patent for printing law-books of which he issued large numbers. He was an original member of the new Stationers' Company and was Master in 1579 and 1584. In 1573 he made an effort to start a paper mill in England, but the matter meeting with no encouragement from the Government, the scheme was allowed to drop. Towards the close of his life Tottell retired to Wiston in Pembrokeshire where he died in 1593. He left a son William born in 1560 and a daughter Anne who married December 18th, 1594, William Pennyman. [Plomer, Wills, pp. 33–35. English Printing, pp. 113–116. D.N.B.]