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Thomas Ostle, 17781807 (aged 29 years)

Name
Thomas /Ostle/
Surname
Ostle
Given names
Thomas
Family with parents
father
17391811
Birth: 18 March 1739 41 31 Newtown, Cumbria, England
Death: 23 February 1811Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
mother
17361814
Birth: about 1736Cumbria, England
Death: 9 December 1814Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
Marriage Marriage31 May 1770Cockermouth Meeting House, Cockermouth, Cumbria, England
18 months
elder brother
1771
Birth: 2 December 1771 32 35 Mawbray, Cumbria, England
Death:
2 years
elder sister
1774
Birth: 2 January 1774 34 38 Mawbray, Cumbria, England
Death:
15 months
elder sister
17751775
Birth: 29 March 1775 36 39 Mawbray, Cumbria, England
Death: 1 May 1775Mawbray, Cumbria, England
3 years
himself
17781807
Birth: 16 April 1778 39 42 Mawbray, Cumbria, England
Death: 11 December 1807London, England
Birth
Death of a paternal grandfather
Burial of a paternal grandfather
Death of a paternal grandmother
Burial of a paternal grandmother
Occupation
Bookseller
before 1804
Address: Ave Maria Lane, London, England.
Death
Burial
Cemetery: Bunhill Fields Cemetery - Friends' Burial Ground
Reference number
113
Unique identifier
F847193531B0E9439AFEF35A46CCE1FC6E79
Last change
30 October 201216:47:15
Author of last change: Danny
Note

On 4 July 1807 Thomas published "The Eloquence of the British Senate" by the essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830). On his death record, his residence is given as Ludgate Hill. The Quaker records note that he "died of consumption" while a death notice in the "Carlisle Journal" for December 19th 1807 says "Suddenly, a few days ago, by the bursting of a blood vessel".

In his will he left £250 to his cousin Isaac Ostell of London and the rest of his estate to his father Jacob, in Cockermouth, there is no mention of a wife or children. He appoints Joseph Johnson, bookseller, of St Paul's Churchyard as trustee and executor to wind-up his business. Johnson was a very distinguished Unitarian publisher who was at the centre of educated middle-class Unitarian society in London. He published Hazlitt's father (a Unitarian preacher) as early as 1766, and was to publish Hazlitt the essayist's first book in 1805. He was also the publisher of Wollstonecraft, Blake, Paine, and most radical and dissenting authors of the day. Wordsworth published his first book with Johnson in 1793. Coleridge published with him in 1798.

Information from Duncan Wu, Professor of English Literature at St. Catherine's College, Oxford.