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Paternoster Row is a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade, [1] [2] with booksellers operating from the street. [3] Paternoster Row was described as "almost synonymous" with the book trade. [4] It was part of an area called St Paul's Churchyard. In time Paternoster Row itself was used inclusively of ...
The historic square was formerly the site of Newgate Market, a meat market serving much of London. By the late nineteenth [1] century it was called Paternoster Square, taking the name from Paternoster Row. It was accessed on the north by Rose Street (originally Roe Street), the west by White Hart Street and the south and east by alleys, which ...
Thomas Jones (1791 – May 25, 1882) was a publisher and bookseller in London.. Born a Roman Catholic, he converted to Judaism.For many years he pursued the business of publisher and bookseller in Paternoster Row, London.
Awnsham Churchill (1658–1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1710.
The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century.
John Van Voorst was born in Highgate on 15 February 1804, to a family of Dutch descent. [1] He served a six-year apprenticeship in Wakefield from the age of 16 before returning to London to work for publishers Longman, Green, Orme, Hurst & Co. [1] [2] He set up his own business in Paternoster Row in 1833.
Paternoster Row, once the centre of the London publishing trade, destroyed during the Blitz, replaced by: . Paternoster Square, an urban development in London; Paternoster Gang, a trio of recurring fictitious characters in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, whose headquarters was on Paternoster Row
Historically it included St Paul's Cross and Paternoster Row. It became one of the principal marketplaces in London. St Paul's Cross was an open-air pulpit from which many of the most important statements on the political and religious changes brought by the Reformation were made public during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.