Catherine Lintot
{{Short description|British legal printer (1733–1816)}}
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| name = Catherine Fletcher
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| birth_name = Catherine Lintot
| birth_date = 1733Month and date unknown.
| birth_place = Temple Bar, London
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1816|10|17|1733|df=y}}
| death_place = Ashley Park
| burial_place = Walton-on-Thames
| monuments = Walton-on-Thames
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| occupation = printer
| spouse = Sir Henry Fletcher, 1st Baronet, of Clea Hall
| relatives = Barnaby Bernard Lintot (grandfather)
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Catherine Lintot (1733–1816), later Catherine Fletcher, Lady Fletcher, printer, born by Temple Bar, London, was the only surviving child of Henry (1703–1758)"[http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/details/?traderid=42946 Lintot, Henry]". British Book Trade Index. Accessed 2023-07-30. and Elizabeth Lintot (née Aubrey, died 1734).
Life
Lintot was born in 1733 in Temple Bar, London. She came from a family of printers and her grandfather, Bernard Lintot (1675–1736),"[http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/details/?traderid=42944 Lintot, Barnaby Bernard]". British Book Trade Index. Accessed 2023-07-30. had the dubious distinction of being twice satirized by Alexander Pope. The Lintot firm held the patent as the king's legal printerAitkin; McLaverty; Parker. 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."[https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/firm/6675 Bernard Lintott]". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Firm ID 6675. Accessed 2023-07-30."[https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/firm/1272 Henry Lintot]". The Women's Print History Project, 2019, Firm ID 1272. Accessed 2023-07-30.
Catherine Lintot inherited the Lintot printing house, then located "In the Savoy","[http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/details/?traderid=42945 Lintot, Catherine]". British Book Trade Index. Accessed 2023-07-30. 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.
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.Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 219. 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.
See also
Notes and references
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- Aitkin, G. A. "[https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.001.0001/odnb-9780192683120-e-16746 Lintot, Barnaby Bernard (1675–1736)]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1892. Accessed 2023-07-21.
- [http://bbti.bodleian.ox.ac.uk British Book Trade Index]. University of Oxford.
- George Edward Cokayne, ed. The Complete Baronetage. 5 Vols., c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983.
- McLaverty, James. "[https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-16746 Lintot
[ Lintott] , (Barnaby) Bernard (1675–1736), bookseller]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. September 23, 2004. Oxford University Press. Accessed 2023-07-21. - Parker, J. G. "[https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9729 Fletcher, Sir Henry, first baronet (1727?–1807)]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. September 23, 2004. Oxford University Press. Accessed 2023-07-21.
- [https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/ The Women's Print History Project]
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Category:18th-century English women