Thomas Kershaw

(1824 fl.)

LBT ID: ThKersh1824
SOURCES: Archibald Prentice, Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester (1851); Cornelius P. Darcy, The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860 (`976) 149; British Book Trade Index (web)
Manchester calico printer and radical friend of William Hazlitt; he was a member of the Manchester Constitutional Society and a patron of the painter Daniel Stringer.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Kershaw: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VII 1803-05 Found 1: ¶ 3 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 2: ¶ 24 ¶ 25