LA RIVIERE, Anthony (1815-1901) — London
Lithographer, chromolithographer & printer. Employed to lithograph maps by Henry George Collins (see BME 2011), with whom he shared the 22 Paternoster Row address for a time in the 1850s. Lithographed Illustrated Map of Feejee, Presented by the Missionary Committee to collectors of juvenile Christmas offerings 1853; Metropolitan Wesleyan Chapel Building Fund Report, 1869; statistical map of London 1869. Also known for topographical views, portraits, etc.
Born 19 Aug 1815 and baptised 10 Sep 1815 at St. Margaret Westminster, the son of Anthony La Riviere (Lariviere) (1776?-1842), a musician and dancing-master, and his wife Sarah (1771?-1831); his father, originally from Brussels, had served in the 3rd Foot Guards and the 2nd Dragoon Guards and appears to have married Sarah Wood in Exeter in 1800. The younger La Riviere married (1) Ann Tarrant (1820-1869), a domestic servant, from Stratford, Essex, at Shoreditch 1840. He was resident with her in Clifton Street in 1851, with three small children and a servant. Recorded as an insolvent debtor 15 Jun 1855. There were eight children by 1861, as well as a servant and four resident apprentices. His son, Anthony Grant La Riviere (1845-1920) was already working as a printer at the age of fifteen. After the death of his first wife in 1869, he married (2) Jane Chamberlin (1822-1883) from Ilfracombe at Mile End in 1870. The household in Clifton Street in 1871 comprised La Riviere, his new wife, five children and a servant; his son Charles Ernest (b.1851) was now also a printer. La Riviere and his second wife were living alone in Clifton Street in 1881. He had become a widower by 1891, when living with daughter Lydia (1853-1939), who was employed as a music-seller. He died 10 Jan 1901 at the age of eighty-five following an accidental fall in Worship Street a week earlier (Hackney & Kingsland Gazette, 14 Jan 1901). “The deceased gentleman had resided in Clifton-street for 60 years, and was very greatly respected. Mr. Riviere was connected from his earliest years with the old Huguenot Church in Spitalfields, and in later times with Wesley’s Chapel, Citv-road. He was also a veteran visitor of the Strangers’ Friend Society, and was a member of that useful and venerable institution the time of his death. The funeral took place on Tuesday last, service being held at Wesley’s Chapel … The service was attended by a large number of deceased’s friends and colleagues. who gathered to show the last token of respect to the memory of a good man. The interment took place at Ilford Cemetery” (Shoreditch Observer, 19 Jan 1901). A gravestone survives at the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium at Newham. Probate on effects of £2,703.18s.1d. was granted 10 Feb 1801 to his sons Anthony Grant La Riviere, printer, and Alfred La Riviere (1855-1918), commercial clerk.
18 Clifton Street, Finsbury — 1846-1871
— and 22 Paternoster Row — 1855-1862
38 Clifton Street, Shoreditch — 1872-1901
BBTI. BM. BNA. Census 1851-1891. Hyde. LG. Twyman. Wakeman & Bridson.