Life
1693-1778; employed in Fleet St. by Henry Woodfall and Samuel Richardson
[as a printer]; settled in York in 1724; histories of York, Ripon, and
Hull; died in poverty; autobiography edited by Rev. Joseph Huner (1832).
ODNB PI
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References
D. J. O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary
(Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1912); Famous printer in York, Irish born; The Pious and Poetical Works of J.G. (11 parts, York 1732-72)
and other religious works.
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