The Elder
Samuel
Bagster
Born in England
Son of George Bagster
and Mary Ann (Denton) Bagster
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Eunice Denton (Birch) Bagster
— married
19 Dec 1797 in St Giles in the Field, London, England
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Bagster theYounger, John Bagster, Eunice Bagster, Augustus Birch Bagster, Benjamin Bagster, Jonathan Bagster and Cornelius Birch Bagster
Died
at age 78
in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Nov 2012
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Samuel Bagster was the founder of Bagster & Sons, a publishing firm which broke out the State monopoly on printing Bibles.
Samuel Bagster is Notable.
Biography
Samuel Bagster was born on 26 December 1772 in England to George Bagster and Mary (Denton) Bagster.
He was educated at Northhampton and apprenticed to William Otridge. He opened business as a general bookseller on 19 April 1794 on The Strand, and operated there until 1816. Due to monopolistic publishing in England and Ireland licensed by Royal decree, bibles were expensive and rare. A loophole in the legal phrasing found by Bagster was that annotated bibles were not included in the restrictions.[1] He first published a Hebrew bible and the Septuagint, both in foolscap octavo (a size of book about 4.25 × 6.75 inches untrimmed). In 1816 the firm moved to 15 Paternoster Row. The first issue of the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta Bagsteriana appeared between 1817 and 1828 in English, French, Italian and German. He also published the English Hexapla, a compilation of the 6 different previously published English versions of the New Testament from 1380 to 1611.[1]
Samuel married Eunice Denton Birch on 19 Dec 1797 at St Giles in the Field, London, England.
Together they became the parents of Samuel Bagster the Younger, Augusta Bagster, Eunice Bagster, Cornelius Birch Bagster, John Bagster,
Samuel died on 28 March 1851 and was buried in the family vault at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22, 1917 for Samuel Bagster, Page 877 (Ancestry.com [on-line database w/ images])..
See also:
- Wikipedia: Samuel Bagster the Elder
- Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 19 April 2020), memorial page for Samuel Bagster (1772–1851), Find A Grave: Memorial #21146253, citing Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London Borough of Hackney, Greater London, England ; Maintained by julia&keld (contributor 46812479) .
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