Thomas Hinton was a printer in Cirencester who produced the first edition of the Cirencester Post or Gloucestershire Mercury in about October or November 1718.Plomer, Henry R. (1915) A Short History of English Printing. 2nd edn. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., p. 209."Notes on The First Bristol and Gloucestershire Printers" by F.A. Hyett in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1895-97, Vol. 20, 38-51. He is known to have been active as a printer in the town between 1709 and 1724. The Cirencester printer Samuel Rudder was married in 1749 to a Mary Hinton, and it has been speculated that Mary may have been related to Thomas Hinton.Nicholas Herbert, ‘Rudder, Samuel (bap. 1726, d. 1801)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 7 Jan 2012
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