Henry Gardner (1743–1808; fl. 1769–1808)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Publisher

Dates

  • Apprenticeship: 1758
  • Freedom: 1765

Names

  • Henry Gardner
  • Henry Lasher Gardner

Henry Gardner, bookseller and publisher (1772–1808) opposite St. Clement's Church in the Strand; 207 Strand; 200 Strand, opposite to St. Clement's Church.

Henry Lasher Gardner, son of the printer Thomas Gardner and his wife Lucy, was baptized in the parish of St. Clement Danes on 22 November 1743. He was apprenticed to his father in 1758 and turned over to Charles Bathurst in 1760.

He is listed at 207, Strand, in the List of the Livery of London, with Their Places of Abode, and Businesses by Thomas Tomlins (1775?), p. 266, and A Canvassing Book, for the Purpose of Elections by the Livery by Thomas Tomlins (1776), p. 66. Imprints and advertisements have him at 200 Strand from at least 1778. In his will, Gardner left to his wife his "messuage or tenement in the Strand at the north west end of Milford Lane in the Parish of St. Clement" (Piece 1475: Ely, Quire Numbers 159-213 (1808), records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11, National Archives, Kew). The messuage corresponds to the house in Milford Lane which father Thomas had annexed to his dwelling house in St. Clement Danes.

The [French] School will open again, after the recess, on Monday, July 23, 1804. Terms and particulars may be known by applying to Mr. Bent, Bookseller, No. 55. Paternoster-row; Mr. Gardner, No. 200, Strand; and to the Principal, No. 5, King-street, Covent-garden ... —The Times, 30 June 1804

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)

GARDNER (HENRY), bookseller and publisher in London, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand, 1774–6. Possibly son of T. Gardner (q. v.). In 1774 his name is found in the imprint of a pamphlet entitled, America vindicated from the High Charge of Ingratitude and Rebellion. In 1775 a dictionary was printed for and sold by H. Gardner and three others. [Public Advertiser, January 3rd, 1775.] His name is found in Kent's Directory for 1776. He died February 29th, 1808. [Nichols, III. 644.]