Author: Brice, Thomas
Biography:
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Ragaz, Sharon (SR)
BRICE, Thomas (1749-1839?: ancestry.co.uk)
He was the great-nephew of Andrew Brice (q.v.), and, like him, an Exeter printer and satiric writer. His mother’s name is not known but his father was Thomas Brice (d 1758) who was a printer in Exeter operating from Southgate Street in 1755 before he moved to Eastgate Street in 1756. Thomas Brice, the son, was baptised at Saint Stephen’s, Exeter, Devon, on 10 Apr. 1749. He married Elizabeth Penny on 13 Dec. 1768; they had at least one son who, like his father, was a printer and, confusingly, was also named Thomas. Her father was James Penny, an Exeter bookseller and printer with premises in Southgate Street. Thomas Brice took over his father’s business in Eastgate Street but later moved successively to Goldsmith Street, Conduit Street, North Street, and High Street. Likely it was the son who established Brice and Company’s Old Exeter Journal; or, Western Advertiser (1789-91). The exact date of Thomas Brice's death is not known but it may have been as early as 1781 when Elizabeth began operating the press on her own. (ancestry.co.uk 18 Sept. 2023; BBTI 18 Sept. 2023; ESTC; Exeter Working Papers in Book History) SR