Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760–1834) was an English Quaker publisher of political pamphlets. He was born into a

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family, the youngest son of John Rickman (1715–1789), a

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and the freeholder of the Bear Inn at Cliffe, near (now in)

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, Sussex), and Elizabeth Rickman (née Peters). He published political

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and broadsides, contributing to the poetry columns of the ''Black Dwarf'' and other periodicals. Rickman married outside the Quaker faith, and after being disowned by the Society of Friends moved to

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, where in 1783 he set up as a bookseller. He was a member of the

Headstrong Club The Headstrong Club was an 18th-century debating society operating out of an upstairs room at The White Hart in Lewes whose notable members included Thomas Paine and Thomas 'Clio' Rickman. Legacy A modern iteration of the club, with the same an ...

, and a friend of

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, who lived with him when composing '' The Rights of Man'' in 1791 - they had first met during the time Paine was living in Lewes between 1768 and 1774. His ''Life of Thomas Paine'' was published in 1819.

References

* Thomas Rickman (1819)
The Life of Thomas Paine
' via

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Rickman’s publications

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rickman, Thomas 1760 births 1834 deaths 18th-century English people 19th-century English people English pamphleteers English booksellers People from Lewes

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