BROSTER family, printers, Chester and Bangor.

PETER BROSTER printed an edition of Y Llyfr Plygain at Chester in 1783. In 1807 JOHN BROSTER started in business at Bangor; he was probably the John Broster who had been apprenticed to W. C. Jones, printer, Chester. John Broster's son, CHARLES BROSTER, was owner, publisher, and printer in 1817 of The North Wales Gazette, a newspaper of which the first number had been produced at Bangor on 5 January 1808; on 4 October 1827 it became The North Wales Chronicle, its owner and printer then being JOHN BROWN (died 1847), who had also served his apprenticeship in the Chester office of W. C. Jones; for further details of the firms of Broster and Brown and of the newspaper, see Ifano Jones, History of Printing and Printers in Wales. In the meantime John Broster and his son had continued to print and publish at Chester. They issued Tour from Chester through North Wales in 1802, whilst at least two Welsh books were issued by them in 1807.

Author

• Sir William Llewelyn Davies, (1887 - 1952)

Sources

• Morris Parry, Gwasg Gymraeg Caerlleon (Caerleon 1931)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20732672

Published date: 1959

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