Roach, James, 1753 or 1754?-1832?
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Roach, John, active 1796
Roach, John, 1753 or 1754?-1832?
Roach, 1753 or 1754?-1832?
Roach, J. (James), 1753 or 1754?-1832?
Roach, I., 1753 or 1754?-1832?
Roach, John, fl. 1796
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Roach, John, active 1796
Roach, John, fl. 1796
Sources
found: His Roach's London pocket pilot, or stranger's guide through the metropolis, 1796:t.p. (J. Roach)
found: BM(Roach, John, publisher)
found: DNB(Roach, John, fl. 1796; bookseller and compiler)
found: Oxford DNB, via www, Nov. 25 2008(Roach, John (fl. 1789-1796), bookseller, sold from his Drury Lane, London, shop prompt-book plays, odd volumes, children's anthologies, and jest and song books, also published lewd prints, notably on 10 November 1795 Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, which landed him in prison for a year)
found: Maxted, I. London book trades(Roach, James or John, bookseller and printer, Russell Court, Drury Lane 1796-1822. Prob. the Mr. Roach imprisoned for publishing 'Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies' 10 Nov. 1795. Compiled a number of works on theatrical and other topics)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, August 31, 2020(Roach, James; born 1753/1754?; died 1832?, Drury Lane; bookseller; an error in earlier editions of the DNB gave his surname as "John" and led to some speculation that there were brothers James and John jointly involved in the book trade; but definitively established by Freeman (2012) as James Roach, listed in ESTC as J. Roach or I. Roach as a printer, publisher, or bookseller; shop at 5 Little Russell Court, near Drury Lane theater; recorded in the rate-books of St Martin-in-the-Fields until March 1821; replaced by William Haughton, who had married Roach's daughter Isabella)
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1993-08-30: new
2020-09-02: revised
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