Septimus Rivington (1846 - 1926)

Born 12 May 1846 in Highgate, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Edith Elizabeth (Morgan) Rivington — married 1 Mar 1870 in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Died 9 Sep 1926 at age 80 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Septimus was born in May 1846 at Highgate, Middlesex and christened on 30 June the same year at St Michael Highgate.^[1] He was the seventh son of publisher Francis Rivington and his wife Louisa Hansard.

On 15 October 1864, Septimus matriculated from Trinity College, Oxford University, aged 18. He graduated with a BA in 1868 and an MA in 1871 being a student of the Inner Temple from 1866.^[2]

When Septimus' father retired in July 1859, he left his son Francis with their cousin John running the business. Septimus joined them two years later. In 1890, Francis sold the business to Longmans of Paternoster Row, London. Septimus had already left the firm, suffering from a severe illness in 1886. He started a new company with partner John Guthrie Percival in 1889. After a number of name changes, this company eventually became Rivington & Co again.^[3][4][5]

On 1 March 1870 at St Marys, Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, Septimus married Edith Elizabeth, daughter of William Bowyer Morgan and Marianna Elizabeth Heintz.^[6][7]

Septimus authored and published The Publishing House of Rivington in 1894, following up with The Publishing Family of Rivington in 1919.

He passed away in Eastbourne, Sussex, in 1926.^[8][9]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth/Chr: London Metropolitan Archives; "London, England, UK" ; London Church of England Parish Registers ; Reference Number: P90/Mic1/005
2. ↑ Foster, Joseph. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Oxford: Parker and Co., 1888
3. ↑ Septimus Rivington, The Publishing Family of Rivington (Rivingtons, 1919)
4. ↑ Stephen, Sir Leslie, ed. Dictionary of National Biography, 1921–1922. 'Francis Rivington', Oxford University Press, London, England
5. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 'Rivington (publishers)'
6. ↑ Marriage: England and Wales Marriage GRO Q1 1870 Kettering Vol3b p169
7. ↑ Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 55P/12
8. ↑ Death: England and Wales Death GRO Q3 1926 Eastbourne Vol2b p99 80y
9. ↑ Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England: "RIVINGTON Septimus of 34 King-street Covent Garden Middlesex died 9 September 1926 at the Queen's Hotel Eastbourne Probate London 19 October [1926] to Edmund Percy Morgan esquire and Arthur Coke Morgan solicitor. Effects £94059 16s 4d."

See also

• Septimus Rivington, The Publishing House of Rivington (Kessinger, 1894)
• Septimus Rivington, The Publishing Family of Rivington (Rivingtons, 1919)
• Leah Orr, Book History, The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Vol26 issue 2 Fall 2023, 'John and James Rivington, Booksellers: The Retail Trade in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London' (Johns Hopkins University Press) pp. 295-323