Biography

John Dunkin (1782-1846), topographer, was born at Bicester on 16 May 1782. At the age of twenty he was apprenticed to a carpenter or house decorator at Stony Stratford, whom he left to take up employment in Oxford. At twenty-three he was in London, working for the clerk of works at Kensington Palace. Dunkin took up printing, served an apprenticeship in London, and set up at the age of thirty as a bookseller, stationer, and printer in Bromley, Kent. In 1837 Dunkin moved to Dartford, where, with his son, he set up a bookshop at 13 High Street, and started to build a printing establishment. Shortly afterwards he opened a branch business at Gravesend. In 1844 he published his History and Antiquities of Dartford.

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