In 1804, two more partners were admitted, and the former apprentice Brown became a partner in 1811 in 1824, the title of the firm was changed to 'Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green'. Of these, Thomas Norton Longman (1771–1842) succeeded to the business. 1777–1869) entered the house as an apprentice. In 1794, he took Owen Rees as a partner in the same year, Thomas Brown (c. He greatly extended the colonial trade of the firm. Upon the death of his uncle in 1755, Longman became sole proprietor. In 1754, Longman took into partnership his nephew, Thomas Longman (1730–1797), and the title of the firm became 'T. Longman himself was one of the six booksellers, who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1746–1755). Longman entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Osborn, who held one-sixth of the shares in Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). Taylor's two shops in Paternoster Row, London, were known respectively as the Black Swan and the Ship, premises at that time having signs rather than numbers, and became the publishing house premises. In August 1724, he purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor, the first publisher of Robinson Crusoe, for £ 2282 9s 6d. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and at the expiration of his apprenticeship married Osborn's daughter. The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman (1699 – 18 June 1755), the son of Ezekiel Longman (died 1708), a gentleman of Bristol.
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