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William Flexney - publisher

Biography


Birth: 1731
Death: Jan 07, 1808

Publisher, living near Grays Inn Gate, Holborn (from at least 1762 to 1792). Married (1762) to a Ms. Broughton, with whom he may have had two or more children.1 Original publisher of the poems of Charles Churchill, who wrote of him:

Let those who energy of diction prize,
For Billingsgate, quit Flexney, an be wise.
2

Life with James Boswell

Flexney published Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of 'Elvira', written by Mr. David Malloch and Letters Between the Honourable Andrew Erskine and James Boswell, Esq. (1763) Boswell had Supper with Flexney and the printer Samuel Chandler on July 8, 1763.

Notes

Note 1: In St. Andrews, Holborn was christened a William Broughton Flexney in 1772 and a Martha Flexney in 1774.

Note 2: In "The Journey" published posthumously.


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William Flexney is mentioned in:

  • London Journal 1762-1763

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