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Last Name Fores

Given Name Samuel William

alt. Names S. W. F. ; S. W. Fores ;

Marriage 1: Elizabeth (1758 or 1759-1897) ; 2: Jane (1772 or 1773-1840)

Children George Thomas Fores (1806-1858) ; Arthur Blücher Fores (1814-1883)

Year born 1761 in London

Year died 1838

Place of death London

Father's occupation cloth merchant/stationer bookseller Samual Fores (1738-1xxx)

Relatives Mary Allington (mother) ; George Philip Byron Fores (1831-1916) (successor grandson) ;

Education

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for "Repeal of the Test Act" 1790; Fores (pseudonym John Blunt): Man Midwifery Dissected 1793 ;

Patronage

Collaborators George Thomas Fores (1806-1858) (son) ; Arthur Blücher Fores (1814-1883) (son) ; artist James Gillray ; artist Hannah Humphrey ; artist Isaac Cruikshan ; artist Robert Newton ;

Techniques copperplate engraving and etching ; caricature

Sample(s)

Archival sources British Museum catalogue no. 7629; http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=124910

Published sources AKL 42 2004: 302 ; ThB 12 1916: 208 ; Oxford DNB 2004, online ; Martin Fitzpatrick in: RGW Anderson & Christopher Lawrence: Science Medicine Dissent Joseph Priestley 1987: 33 ;

other satire & sporting, reproduction publisher printseller in London since 1783.

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