SKIPPER, Charles 2 (1837-1890) — London
Printer, stationer, engraver, binder, etc. Produced, as ‘Charles Skipper & East’, Map of the Port of London below Gravesend shewing the existing limits of coterminous ports 1860; ‘Holborn Valley improvements’ 1872, with maps; W. Haywood, ‘Report to the … Commissioners of Sewers … on the accidents to horses on carriageway pavements’ 1873, with a map; ‘Report in relation to the entertainment of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, in the Guildhall of the City of London’ 1874, with plans; W. Sedgwick Saunders, ‘Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act … report to the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers’ 1875, with maps; ‘Report of the Sanitary Committee to the Commissioners of Sewers’ 1876, with maps; W. Sedgwick Saunders, ‘Condemned meat : report to the Sanitary Committee’ 1877, with plans; Map of the City of London and liberties, shewing the inlets at which the traffic was taken in 1881 1881, for the City Corporation; Billingsgate Market 1830, Billingsgate Market 1855 and Billingsgate Market 1884, for the City Corporation, etc. Known principally for the printing of official reports, tables, catalogues, etc., but especially for banknotes, shipping forms, ledgers, etc.
Born in London 5 Dec 1837 (or according to Stationers’ Company records 21 Dec 1837, at the Foundling Hospital) and baptised 28 Apr 1838 at St. Dunstan in the East, the son of Charles Skipper 1 above and his wife Elizabeth Rippen East (1809-1871), who married in 1833. Recorded at school in Brighton in 1851. Apprenticed (Stationers) to his father 11 Jan 1853. Made free of the Stationers’ Company by patrimony 11 Jan 1859. See the entry for his father for his Old Bailey evidence suggesting that he had effectively taken over the running of the business by about 1857. A serious fire at St. Dunstan’s Hill necessitated a temporary move the building next door in 1860. Married Harriott White (1844-1922), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the daughter of a London merchant, 29 Jun 1865 at Christ Church Paddington. The partnership with his father was formally dissolved 30 Jun 1870, with Skipper continuing to trade all his life as ‘Skipper & East’, with a fresh partner in Edward Wormald (1848-1928), who left an estate of £569,165 at his death. Recorded as a wholesale law stationer on the 1881 census, resident in Richmond with his wife, four children born in Paddington, and eleven servants, including a cook, coachman, governess and a groom. Died at the Bedford Hotel in Brighton 4 Oct 1890. Probate on a personal estate of £48,805 was granted to his partner Edward Wormald and Lewis John Oatway of Bush Lane 5 Dec 1890.
1 St. Dunstan’s Hill — 1857-1890
— and 9 Great Tower Street — 1878-1879
— and 8/9 Great Tower Street — 1880-1890
Norfolk Lodge, Richmond (home) — 1881
Apprentices: Henry Tippins 1860; James Alfred Davis 1861; Henry Isaac Barrow 1861; Charles Moore 1861; Henry Charles Palmer 1861; Richard George Pope 1861; John Belemore 1864; Thomas Holborough 1864; Warren Robert Glockler 1864; Frederick Thomas Norris 1864; Edward William Munns 1866; George Henry Tennant 1866; Edward Edwards 1866; James Seager 1866; George Bissell 1866; Arthur Miller 1867; Henry David Wadley 1867; Gustave Luckhardt 1867; James Mitchell 1867; Edward Childs 1867; Charles Henry Coombs 1868; Edwin Hicks 1868; Henry Robert Sceats 1871; Arthur John Woodhams 1871; Edward James Colverd 1871; Fraser Sebastian Gordon 1871; Arthur George Brown 1871; William Martin 1872; William Nevill 1872; William Thomas Raxworthy 1872; William Hall Gregory 1872; Alexander William Reid 1872; George Joseph Frowen 1872; Henry Samuel Pearson 1872; William Berks 1877; Colin Charles Hood 1877; Henry Lansdown 1877; Edward Archibald May 1879.
BM. BNA. Brown. Census 1841-1851, 1881. Hyde. LHD. LMA. LG. OB. Todd. Tooley.