HAGEN, Thomas (1788-1870) — London
Grocer, brewer, agent, clerk and publisher of games. Took out a patent for an improved bagatelle board in Jul 1841 — “in this improved bagatelle board, the end of it, where the numbered holes are usually placed, is occupied by a moveable platform with cups sunk in it, the platform being covered with a map, or with figures of animals, birds, or insects, each county or figure occupying a cup” (Mechanics’ Magazine, 31 Jul 1841); produced Instructive travelling map. Europe (new game) 1842, lithographed by Charles Frederick Cheffins (see BME 2011); Instructive travelling map. Scotland (new game) 1842; Instructive travelling map. Ireland, (new game) 1842 — another map-game lithographed by Cheffins; England & Wales. Instructive travelling map (new game) 1843.
Born a Quaker at Stanwell, Middlesex, 5 May 1788, the son of Simeon Warner Hagen (1751-1812), a miller and mealman, and his second wife Mary Ashby (1758-1795). Then described as a grocer, he married Rachel Spence (1790-1856) in a Quaker ceremony at Newcastle-upon-Tyne 16 Sep 1819. Recorded as a “common brewer” when a partnership with his brother George Hagen and Ticehurst Gravely was formally dissolved 2 Feb 1830, Gravely departing. Recorded as a Kensington brewer when he took out the patent above and again as a brewer at his home in Stanwell in 1841, with his wife and a daughter. By 1848, he and his wife had moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he worked initially as an agent. He advertised in Jun 1850 in the British Friend that he was in need of employment as a clerk or overseer. Recorded with his wife in Tynemouth in 1851, now described as an unemployed clerk. His wife died in Carlisle in 1856. Referred to as an agent in 1860 when granted probate after the death of a son, but as a merchant’s clerk in Carlisle in 1861. There he took part in local affairs and was appointed to the committee of a temperance association in 1866. He died at Carlisle in 1870 aged eighty-two, noted as a Quaker elder.
Kensington Common — 1830
— Grove House, Stanwell (home) — 1841
Kensington — 1842-1843
18 Oxford Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne — 1848-1850
Norfolk Street, Tynemouth — 1851
Carlisle — 1856
5 Chiswick Street, Carlisle — 1861
BNA. Census 1841-1861. LG. LHD.