Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
John Cluer, born est c.1675.
He was freed from apprenticeship in 1702.
Freeman of Stationers' Company, 4 May 1702
[Stoker, 2014, p.155].
Elizabeth is listed as married to him in her father's will 1703.
He set up his own printing
business
in Bow Church Yard, London.
The business is described
on a visit to Bow Church Yard in 1763
as being run by the family for "fourscore" years, which would make it founded in 1683.
This must be inaccurate.
Most likely it was founded by John Cluer in 1702-1710.
The earliest surviving item from the Bow Church-yard
press is dated 1710
[Stoker, 2014, p.155].
Mist's Weekly Journal
for March 1718 had an ad for prints
"At the Printing house in Bow Church Yard, London, by J. Cluer and Company".
In 1722 he partnered with
his brother-in-law
William Dicey
in selling
the patent medicine
"Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops"
(basically opium).
He sold them in London.
He also sold the patent medicine
"Daffy's Elixir".
He became a major publisher of music in London.
He
also did a lot of prints (pictures).
According to the London Journal of 13 July 1728, John Cluer and his foreman Thomas Cobb invented movable types for printing music.
John dies, 1728:
His will dated 24 Aug 1728.
He is a printer, of St Mary-le-Bow parish, Cheapside, London.
He leaves everything to wife.
No mention of children.
He died Oct 1728.
His will pr 5 October 1728,
Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
He was bur 12 Oct 1728, St Mary-le-Bow.
See entry
from here.
Elizabeth re-married in 1729 to John's foreman Thomas Cobb.
The business was taken over by the Diceys in 1736.
John and Elizabeth had issue:
A reference to an ad for Cluer's prints
that appeared in
Mist's Weekly Journal
for March 1718.
From pp.282-283
of
vol.3
of
The Bibliographical Decameron (1817)
by
Thomas Frognall Dibdin.
John Cluer listed in
"Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures",
21 Oct 1718.
See full size.
From here.
1724 ad for "Daffey's Elixir"
being sold by John Cluer in Bow Churchyard.
From British Museum.
A trade card of 1727
printed by John Cluer in Bow Churchyard.
From British Museum.
Probate of will of John Cluer granted (in Latin) to Elizabeth his wife, 5 October 1728.
Burial of John Cluer, St Mary-le-Bow, London, 12 Oct 1728.
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