Life
?1697-1790; printer, paper-maker, and founder of the Belfast News Letter
(1737), oldest paper in Ireland. Founded papermill at Randalstown, Co.
Antrim. DIB, dewscribed in R. R. Madden as ‘a conveyancer and notary
public who was given a printing works to pay off a debt.’ Retired
‘upon easy fortune’ in the 1750s. DNB DIB
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)