Thomas Aris (fl. 1738–1761)

Identifiers

  • Grubstreet: 6185

Thomas Aris, printer in Red Lyon Court, Fleet Street (1738–1741); moved to Birmingham in 1741.

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)

ARIS (THOMAS), printer in Birmingham, High Street, 1741–61. Printer and publisher of the Birmingham Gazette or General Correspondent, the first number of which appeared November 16th, 1741. In this he stated that he first went to Birmingham in May 1741, but owing to his house not being ready he returned to London, until Michaelmas. Meanwhile another printer from London, R. Walker, who for some years had been publishing a newspaper called the Warwick and Staffordshire Journal, started a paper at Birmingham, possibly a continuation of the Journal. Walker, however, soon retired and Aris continued to print until his death, July 4th, 1761. [J. Hill, Bookmakers of Old Birmingham, pp. 52–3.]