Caslon, William, 1693-1766

found: A Pair on printing, 1982:t.p. (William Caslon) p. 55 (William Caslon, founder of type-founding company that still bears his name, was b. 4-23-1693 in Halesowen, Worcester; family name Castledown was changed to Caslon, apparently by William's father; set up shop in 1716; in 1742 his son William II joined the firm; the elder Caslon retired in 1766; Caslon died at age of 72)

found: LC data base(hdg.: Caslon, William, 1692-1766) manual authority cd. (hdg.: Caslon, William, 1692-1766; recent source gives different birth date: 1693)

found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, 17 December 2015(Caslon, William the Elder; typefounder; born 1672 at Cradley, Worcestershire; traditional date of his birth is 1692, but his biographer Jonathan Bull has argued for the following year on the grounds that the date of birth is not likely to have been more than a few weeks earlier than the record of his baptism on 23 April 1693; died 23 January 1766 at his country house on Bethnal Green)