David Constable (1843–1915), who had been named after his grandfather. He died on 26 May 1881 at "Marston Biggot Rectory, the residence of his brother, the Rev. John Constable". Freemasonry Constable was a Scottish Freemason. He was Initiated in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2, on 13 March 1835. Assessment The book history academic Alexis Weedon has described Thomas Constable's career "modest". However, Constable maintained a publishing programme and printing over many years and improved efficiency by modernising the working practices and acquiring new fonts (adding "Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, Sanskrit, German, and Music" fonts to the "fount of Greek" originally owned in 1835) and presses (adding sixteen presses and a cylinder and three platen machines" to the four presses owned in 1835). It was also partly as a result of Thomas taking over the firm of his father Archibald Constable in 1833 after the bankruptcy of the previous decade that the Constable publishing firm would survive into the twentieth century as a major publisher of fiction and non-fiction books. The Constable name continues today under the imprint name of Constable and Robinson. See also George Washington Bacon Archibald Fullarton References External links T. & A. Constable (British Book Trade Archives: Printers and Publishers) T & A Constable: Printers (A Guide to Archives of 19th c. British Publishers) Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2 (Edinburgh) 1812 births 1881 deaths 19th-century Scottish businesspeople Businesspeople from Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish booksellers Scottish Freemasons Scottish publishers (people) Scottish printers