Thomas Longman

The first Thomas Longman bought for £2,282.9s.6d a house in Paternoster Row (later numbered 39, already identified by the Sign of the Ship) and the bookselling and publishing business based there, whose owner, William Taylor

Thomas Longman (1730-97) completed his apprenticeship and became a partner in the London publishing firm of his uncle Thomas Longman the elder (1699-1755).