John March

John March (d. 1804) of Norwich in the 1790s printed pamphlets by the Norwich Bapitst minister, Mark Wilks, and also sold Benjamin Flower’s Cambridge Intelligencer. Most likely he was Dissenter. He operated as a printer, bookseller, and bookbinder in St Andrew's parish and in Great Yarmouth. The son of Thomas March, a hot-presser, he became a freeman of Norwich 7 December 1776. At some time before 1780 he moved to Great Yarmouth, and is described as a printer there on a Norwich poll of that year. He was in partnership with John Downes of King Street in that town before 1785 and until 1793, but the Universal British Directory compiled about this time lists him at London Lane, Norwich. He was certainly at Cockey Lane, Norwich, soon afterwards. From this address he printed G. C. Morgan's Lectures on Electricity. March is last known in Norwich on the Sheriff's poll of 1797 in St Andrew's parish. He later went to the U.S.A. and died in Washington in 1804. See Norwich Mercury, 11 May 1793; Norwich Mercury. 31 August 1793.