DANGERFIELD, Frederick (1825-1895) — London
Lithographer, printer & stationer. As “Ashbee & Dangerfield”, with Edmund William Ashbee, lithographed Carte indispensable pour les étrangers 1862, for W. Jeffs. Under his own imprint, General map for the operations between 19th August and 1st Sep.tr 1870 : Franco-German war 1870; Charles B. Brown, Geological Map of British Guiana 1873; Special commission to Damara Land and Great Namaqua Land 1876; “Meteorology of the Bombay Presidency : diagrams and maps” 1878; The Sanitary Acts : Specimen plan, shewing sewers, manholes and lampholes, laid out in accordance with the printed suggestions 1878; Plan showing the parochial divisions of the City of London, for “Report of the Royal City Parochial Charities Commission” 1880″; Map of the native territories beyond the boundaries of Griqua-land West, from the itineraries of Lt. Col. Warren ca.1880; “Meteorological atlas of the British Isles” 1883; Map of St. Lucia 1787 by M. Latour; together with a general description of the island 1883, for the Colonial Office; Map showing the boundaries of the South African Republic as defined by Article 1 of the Convention of London 1884; Edmund Peel, Map shewing journey through part of the settlement of Sierra Leone 1886; Ismailia previous to the disembarkation of the English Army in July, 1882, and other maps for J. F. Maurice, “Military history of the campaign of 1882 in Egypt” 1887; Diagram of the alterations proposed by the Boundaries Commission in the county of Monmouth, and other maps for the Boundaries Commission 1888. Known in particular for colour printing, facsimiles of Shakespeare quartos, the illuminated gift-books of Samuel Stanesby, etc. See Ruari McLean. Victorian Book Design.
Born in Cheltenham in 1825, the son of William Dangerfield, a bricklayer and later a hotelier and innkeeper, and his wife Ann. Baptised at St. Mary Cheltenham 21 Aug 1825. Married Emily (Emmeline) Bruce Walker (1827-1897), daughter of a painter, also from Cheltenham, at St. Paul Cheltenham, 23 Sep 1848. In 1851, he was living in Covent Garden with his wife, a schoolmistress sister, a brother William (1821-1901), a bookseller, two-sisters-in-law, and an infant daughter. Registered a patent “for the invention of improvements in the lithographic press” 24 Dec 1852, while working in partnership with Edmund William Ashbee from 1852 onwards. Took out a patent in 1862 for a cylinder lithographic press, with a hinged stone, and the scraper below the cylinder. The partnership with Ashbee was dissolved by mutual consent 31 Mar 1863, after which Dangerfield traded under his own name. Later that year he was advertising “Dangerfield’s newly improved patent lithographic and metallographic press. Important to publishers, architects, stationers, the printing trade, and all large consumers of lithography” (Cheltenham Examiner, 30 Sep 1863). By 1871, a son James Dangerfield (1852-1933) was also a lithographic printer. In 1881, Dangerfield was employing thirty men and fifteen boys, resident at that time in Clapham, with his wife and four children, including Alfred Dangerfield (1858-1890), now a lithographic draughtsman. Dangerfield had retired by 1891, by which time further sons Arthur (1861-1906) and Edmund (1864-1938) were also working as printers. The sons James, Frederick Jr., and Edmund traded jointly as the Dangerfield Printing Company from the Bedford Street address, with branches also in Bouverie Street and West Street, Battersea Park Road until the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent 31 Dec 1894. Dangerfield died at Dole-y-velyn, Wandsworth Common, 16 Dec 1895. Probate was granted on effects of £11,222.1s.4d to his widow and a daughter 17 Jan 1896. The Dangerfield business continued in purpose-built premises in St. Alban’s well into the twentieth-century, specialising in the production of large posters, etc.
Regent Lodge, Star Hotel, Cheltenham (home) — 1841
5 Church Place, Covent Garden — 1851-1852
22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden — 1855-1888
— and West Street, Battersea — 1855
34 Mornington Crescent, St. Pancras (home) — 1861
Battersea (home) — 1871
5 Endlesham Road, Clapham (home) — 1881
4 Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth (home) — 1890-1895
BNA. Census 1841-1891. Hyde. LG. LHD. NA. Smith. Tooley. Twyman. Wakeman & Bridson.
