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Catherine Lintot

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Lady
Catherine Fletcher
Born
Catherine Lintot

1733[1]
Died17 October 1816(1816-10-17) (aged 82–83)
Burial placeWalton-on-Thames
MonumentsWalton-on-Thames
Occupationprinter
SpouseSir Henry Fletcher, 1st Baronet, of Clea Hall
RelativesBarnaby Bernard Lintot (grandfather)

Catherine Lintot (1733–1816), later Catherine Fletcher, Lady Fletcher, printer, born by Temple Bar, London, was the only surviving child of Henry (1703–1758)[2] and Elizabeth Lintot (née Aubrey, died 1734).

Life

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Lintot was born in 1733 in Temple Bar, London. She came from a family of printers and her grandfather, Bernard Lintot (1675–1736),[3] had the dubious distinction of being twice satirized by Alexander Pope. The Lintot firm held the patent as the king's legal printer[4] and published texts by jurists Edward Coke, Anthony Fitzherbert, Giles Jacob, and Matthew Hale and others. They also published literary works by authors such as Susanna Centlivre, Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Piers, Mary Pix, and Elizabeth Singer Rowe.[5][6]

Catherine Lintot inherited the Lintot printing house, then located "In the Savoy",[7] after her father's death, but decided not to stay involved with its ongoing management. She sold a large part of the firm's literary property and, in 1760, she sold half her patent as king's law printer to Samuel Richardson, who amalgamated her printing house with his own in Fleet Street. When Richardson died in 1761, Lintot continued the business for a year in partnership with his widow, Elizabeth, after which the two sold the patent to Henry Woodfall and William Strahan.[4]

Drawing of grand country house and grounds
Ashley House, Ashley Park by John Preston Neale. Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. L.P, Vol. 4, 1818, p. 146.

On 20 October 1768 Lintot married Captain Henry Fletcher (1727–1807) of Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames and long-time director at the East India Company. At the time of her marriage she had a fortune of £45,000, a considerable sum. The couple had two children, Catherine and Henry.[8] In 1782, Henry Fletcher Sr. received a baronetcy. The elder Catherine Fletcher died on 17 October 1816 at their home in Ashley Park. A monument was raised to Catherine and Henry Fletcher in the church of Walton-on-Thames.[4]

See also

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Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ Month and date unknown.
  2. ^ "Lintot, Henry". British Book Trade Index. Accessed 2023-07-30.
  3. ^ "Lintot, Barnaby Bernard". British Book Trade Index. Accessed 2023-07-30.
  4. ^ a b c Aitkin; McLaverty; Parker.
  5. ^ "Bernard Lintott". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Firm ID 6675. Accessed 2023-07-30.
  6. ^ "Henry Lintot". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Firm ID 1272. Accessed 2023-07-30.
  7. ^ "Lintot, Catherine". British Book Trade Index. Accessed 2023-07-30.
  8. ^ Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 219.

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