Porter, Hugh
Record IDcni00057368
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cni00057368
Voor het laatst bewerkt2014-03-14
Algemene noot
He was an Ulsterman,an old soldier, who started a general dealer's business in East Nort Street about 1830. In 1843, he gave up the general dealer's business and took to bookselling. He was an itinerant bookseller, with a horse and specially fitted cart, and visited all the towns in the north as far as Elgin, as well ast the fairs, but wintering for the most part in Aberdeen. When there he put up in a house of the Upperkirkgate. He 'was wont in the "sixties" to pitch his stall on the open space in front of the Flour-mill, where Grant's Buildings now stand in St Nicholas Street.' He fell under his cart on a slippery incline and died. He was believed to be about 80 at the time.
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Jaren van werkzaamheid1830
Activiteititinerant bookseller
Plaats van werkzaamheid
Plaats van werkzaamheidAberdeen (1830 - 7070)
Namen
KopjePorter, Hugh
gebruikt in: National Library of Scotland, Scottish Book Trade Index
Bronnen
Gevonden inBeavan. — [William Walker] “Aberdeen Booksellers of Bygone Days: George Middleton, Alexander Smith, Hugh Porter”. [Aberdeen, 1916]