Lockyer John Davis Explained

Lockyer John Davis (1717–1791) was a bookseller and printer for the Royal Society. He was baptised at St Bartholomew-the-Great, London, on 14 November 1717.^[1] He was apprenticed to his uncle, Charles Davis, a bookseller, in 1732 and elected to the livery of the Worshipful Company of Stationers in 1746.

He was in partnership with Charles Reymers, who died in April 1769.^[2]

He married Mary Reimers in 1746 at St Dunstan in the West, London.^[3] Their daughter, Mary Davis, married bookseller John Egerton on 11 October 1783 in Westminster.^{[4] [5]} John Egerton was the business partner of Thomas Egerton.

Davis died in Holborn in 1791.

External links

• Davis, Lockyer . 14 . Tedder . Henry Richard . Henry Richard Tedder . 164 . 1.
• Brack. O. M., "Davis, Lockyer John (1717–1791)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. (Access via libraries).
• WorldCat: Davis, Lockyer 1719-1791

Notes and References

1. • Brack. O. M., "Davis, Lockyer John (1717–1791)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. (Access via libraries).
2. Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 20 April 1769, p3
3. Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850, Findmypast (Subscription required)
4. Stamford Mercury, 23 January, 1795, p2
5. England Marriages 1538-1973, Findmypast (subscription required)