JUDD, James (1829-1901) — London
Printer, lithographer, bookseller, bookbinder & publisher. Produced ‘The shilling general atlas’ 1854, with eight maps; George Mason Dorrington (see BME 2011), Chart of the Baltic Sea with the adjoining coasts from London to St. Petersburg 1854; Pictorial map of the Danube : with the following interesting views 1854; ‘The general atlas of modern geography’ 1854, with eight maps; ‘The historical and general atlas of modern geography’ 1855, with ten maps; Overland railway through British North America 1868, as ‘Judd & Glass’, with Henry Alexander Glass; T. G. Laybourn, The diamond map of London ca.1884; Map of Western Australia 1890; E. Easton, Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply. London Water supply 1892 1893; Royal Commission on Metropolitan Water Supply. Sketch map coloured to shew the districts supplied by each metropolitan water company 1893.
Born 16 Mar 1829 and baptised at Lymington, Hampshire, 12 Apr 1829, the son of James Judd (1803-1877), yeoman and later a clerk in London, and his wife Sarah Mew (1804-1863), who had married in 1826. Originally a compositor, he married Sarah Boulton (1828-1909) at St. George Bloomsbury 26 Sep 1850. By 1861, he was employing forty-four men, seven boys, and three women, and was resident in Islington with his wife and five children. Trading as ‘Judd & Glass’, with Henry Alexander Glass, 1856-1866, issuing ‘Counsels to authors and hints to advertisers’ 1856, outlining their services, with specimens of type and engraving, as well as views of the exterior and interior of their premises. The partners were declared bankrupt 12 Apr 1862, but continued trading until the proceedings were eventually concluded in 1872. The partnership was formally dissolved 18 Aug 1866, and the business became ‘Judd & Co.’ By 1871, Judd was employing between 120 and 150 hands, and by 1881, now living in Croydon with his wife and eight children, he was employing between 400 and 420 hands. In a well-publicised case in 1876, as the printer of the magazine Fun, Judd was prosecuted for printing a libel (written by George Robert Sims) on the famous actor Henry Irving. An 1884 security from Judd, his brother George Henry Judd (1844-1932), and his son William Judd (b.1851) (printers & advertising agents, trading as ‘Judd & Co.’), to Great Western Railways for due performance of a contract for stationery survives at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre. Judd, who stood for parliament in 1886, had retired by 1891 and was a Justice of the Peace at the time of his death. On 12 Sep 1892 he testified at a complex Old Bailey fraud trial, concerning allegedly bogus publishing companies. He died 19 Nov 1901 and was buried 23 Nov 1901 at Shirley, Surrey. Probate on effects of £32,843.3s.3d was granted 31 Dec 1901. Floor plans and an artist’s impression of a house at Ventnor designed for Judd in 1889 by the architect Thomas Sorby are in the Isle of Wight Record Office.
16 Calthorpe Place, Gray’s Inn Road — 1853-1859
— and 38a New Bridge Street, Blackfriars — 1857-1860
38a New Bridge Street, Blackfriars —1861-1864
4 Spencer Villas, Islington (home) — 1861
Chalk Hill, Bushey (home) — 1862
80 Fleet Street — 1864-1866
— and 1a High Holborn — 1864-1865
Phoenix Works, 5 & 6 St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors Commons — 1866-1890
59 Moray Road, Islington (home) — 1871
South Knoll, Highwood Hill, Croydon (home) — 1881
— 63 Carter Lane, Doctors Commons — 1893-1894
150 (East Knoll) Church Road, Croydon (home) — 1901
BNA. Brown. Census 1841-1891. Hyde. LG. LHD. NA. OB. Tooley. Wakeman & Bridson.