Born: Unknown, Ireland (assumed)
Died: 1749
Country most active: Ireland
Also known as: NA
This biography is republished from The Dictionary of Irish Biography and was written by Turlough O’Riordan. Shared by permission in line with Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ (CC BY) licencing.
Richard Pue was succeeded by his wife Elizabeth Pue (fl. 1722–6), printer, publisher, and coffee house proprietor. She published at least one work jointly with Cornelius Carter, who also printed Pue’s Occurences for a time. However, their relationship deteriorated after sales of Carter’s profitable ‘fam’d royal eye water’ suffered when Pue began offering a similar product. Carter publicly questioned the potency and reliability of Pue’s products. With Elizabeth Pue at the helm, Pue’s Occurences ceased to oppose the political establishment and Pue was in the pay of Dublin Castle ‘for advertising in her news paper 4 sev[era]l times against [John] Harding [] the printer’ in June 1723 (see also Pollard, Dict., 472). She had ceased any involvement in the family business by 1726; an Elizabeth Pue was buried 19 December 1749 at St Nicholas Within, but this may have been a daughter of Richard II (ibid.).