Thomas Combe
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Life
Combe was the son of Thomas Combe senior (died 1836?), a printer, stationer, bookseller and newspaper proprietor in Leicester.[1] After working with his father and, between around 1824 and 1826 with Joseph Parker in Oxford, he was freed by the Stationers' Company and went into business in his own right.
In 1826, he was briefly in partnership with Michael Angelo Nattali in London, but before the end of the year he had returned to Leicester to join the family business (which was styled T. Combe and Son between 1826 and 1835). After his father's death he moved to Oxford, and joined the University Press (or Clarendon Press) in 1837 at its then new (1830) building in Walton Street. By 1838, he was superintendent of the 'learned side' of the press, and soon acquired shares in the business. By 1851, he was senior partner in the Press.[2] As a result, he amassed a considerable fortune.
He and his wife Martha (1806–1893) were keen patrons of the arts and particularly of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1849, he met John Everett Millais in Oxford, who painted portraits of Combe's family.[3] They were also devotees of the Tractarian or Oxford Movement.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
He died on 30 June 1872.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Combe is buried in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, off Walton Street, near the University Press. His widow retained and expanded his collection of Pre-Raphaelite art. On her death in 1893, the bulk of the collection was bequeathed to the university and is now in the Ashmolean Museum.
A blue plaque on the outside wall of St Barnabas Church installed by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board now commemorates Thomas Combe and his wife Martha as founders of the church.[4]
References
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External links
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- Blue plaque to Thomas & Martha Combe on St Barnabas' Church, Oxford
- Thomas & Martha Combe's grave at St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, with biography
- Photo of Thomas Combe
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- 1796 births
- 1872 deaths
- People from Leicester
- English printers
- Oxford University Press people
- English philanthropists
- People associated with the Ashmolean Museum
- 19th-century British philanthropists
- 19th-century English businesspeople
- Burials at St Sepulchre's Cemetery