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c.1797 Born in Devon
1821 Married Eliza Courteney Sheppard in Clerkenwell[1]
1861 Type founder, employing 150 men, lived in Edmonton[2]
1871 Retired type founder, Alderman of the City of London, lived in Wandsworth with Eliza Besley 70[3]
1876 Died in Wimbledon Park[4]
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