William Clowes

(1779-1847)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Clowes, William, 1779-1847 NRA: Clowes, William (1779-1847) Printer DNB: Clowes, William (1779-1847), printer LBT ID: WiClowe1847 VIAF ID: 24468283 LOC ID: nr92044333	B/BAP: 1779-01-01 DIED: 1847-01-26
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The son of a Chichester schoolmaster, he was the first printer to develop the steam press, from 1823.
REFERENCES TO William Clowes: Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 7 February 1839 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 9 November 1848 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter X Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 12 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXI. Found 1: ¶ 48 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 21: 1842-50 Found 1: ¶ 48 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) COUNT NIEMCEWITZ Found 1: ¶ 51