Born on Le Bourg, Forest, Guernsey to Rachel Allez and Eleazar de la Rue.

[1][2] Thomas de la Rue was apprenticed to a master-printer, Joseph Antoine Chevalier in Saint Peter Port in 1803.

Having fallen out with Greenslade, Thomas de la Rue launched his own publication, Le Miroir politique, first published on 6 February 1813.

[5] By 1837 his wife, his two sons William Frederick and Warren De la Rue and his eldest daughter were involved in the business.

A commemorative one-pound note was issued in July 2013, to mark 200 years since the first commercial venture of Thomas De La Rue.