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Habbot, James, Chester, joiner and cm (1752–55). App. to Joseph Wilkinson, joiner and cm, 13 January 1752 to 1 May 1755. [Chester app. bks]
Habever, Martin, 4 Horseferry Rd, London, buhl manufacturer (1827–28). [D]
Habever, Martin, 17 Seymour Pl., Bryanston Sq., London, cm, u and chairmaker (1827–28). [D]
Habgood, Henry, Wimborne, Dorset, u and cm (1840). [D]
Habgood, William, London, carver, gilder and frame maker (1783–1808). Declared bankrupt, in partnership with Edward Stephens at Gt Portland St, Gents Mag., May 1783; and alone, at Dufour's Pl., St James's, Westminster, Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 14 November 1796. Probably the Habgood, or Hopgood, carver, gilder and frame maker, named in the Longford Castle, Wilts, accounts in 1799 being paid £15 10s 6d; in 1800, £14 18s; in 1803, £9 15s; in 1804, £10 10s ‘for frames’; and in 1808, £39 1s 6d. [V&A archives]
Hacche, John, South St, South Molton, Devon, u and cm (1838). [D]
Hack, R, 17 South Audley St, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hack, William, Baxtergate, Loughborough, Leics., joiner/cm (1822). [D]
Hacker, —, address unrecorded, cm (c.1775). Supplied furniture to Denton Park, Yorks., c.1775, totalling £9. [Furn. Hist., 1968]
Hacket, —, address unrecorded. Named in the Holkham Hall, Norfolk accounts in 1743, receiving £18 for making two beds. [V&A archives]
Hackett, John, Gt Bridge, West Bromwich, Staffs., cm and u (1830). [D]
Hackett, Joshua, Attleborough, Warks., chairmaker and turner (1835). [D]
Hackett, Thomas, Sleaford, Lincs., joiner and cm (1798). [D]
Hackett, William, 62 Shude Hill, Manchester, cm (1825). [D]
Hackford, John, Bawtry, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hacking, William, Liverpool, cm (1813–21). Trading at 48 Lace Lane, 1813–14; no. 49 in 1816; no. 19 in 1818; and 47 Standick St in 1821, when he is also recorded as a butcher. [D]
Hackitt, John, Dudley, Worcs., cm (1839). [D]
Hackwaite, —, address unrecorded. In 1746 received £3 9s for a settee, a stand for a basin and mending a table at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. [V&A archives]
Hacon, Henry, George St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm and u (1839). [D]
Had, Robert, Bridgnorth, Salop, cm (1797–98). [D]
Hadden, William, 7 Crescent, Cambridge, carver and gilder (1830). [D]
Haddock, Benjamin, Bristol, u (1721–22). [Poll bk]
Haddock, Elka (Elkanah or Elkunah), London, joiner and cm (1732–43). Recorded as Elkanah in Denmark St, St Giles-inthe-Fields, in 1732; as Elkunah in Greek St, 1737; and Elkanah, late of Dean St, Soho, in 1743. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 20 September 1732 for £400, including £100 on goods and utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 37, ref. 58684] On 13 December 1735 he was paid the large sum of £220 9s 1d for work at Wilton House, Wilts. [Apollo, July 1964, p. 4a; GCM] In 1737 Elka Haddock rendered a bill, totalling £8 1s to ‘the Honble. Genl. Dormer’ of Rousham, Oxon., in which he charged £1 10s for ‘a Neat Mahog. Night table wth a tray on top’; and £6 6s for ‘a Neat large Mahog. Easy Chair wth brass Castors, ye back seat and elboes Stuffd Covd. with red Morocco leather Naild with brass Nailes.’ Bill receipted on 13 October 1737. There is also an item ‘to cleaning the ambina [amboyna] Table and polishing do. 5s.’ [Rousham archives] Elkunah Haddock of Greek St, cm, is named in the accounts of Earl Fitzwalter for Moulsham Hall, Essex on 30 April 1737, supplying ‘a Library Table cover'd with green Cloth and with nine Drawers’, costing £15. [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, p. 107] On 4 March 1739 Elka Haddock was commissioned to make the ‘sella curulis’ chair for the Society of Dilettanti ‘for the use and dignity of the Presidt’. On 5 May 1739, Sir Brownlow Sherrard, Bart, paid Haddock £4 10s for the chair, described as ‘a mahogany compass seat Elboe Chair’, covered with crimson velvet, with a mahogany pedestal and castors. [Lionel Cust, History of the Society of Dilettanti, p. 27] A notice regarding the payment of creditors of Elkanah Haddock, late of Dean St, Soho, cm, appeared in Daily Advertiser, 31 August 1743. [DEF; Harris, Old English Furniture]
Haddon, late Graham, 72 St Martin's Lane, London, cabinet and chair manufacturer, upholder and undertaker (c.1800). [Trade card in GL Coll.] See John Haddon at this address.
Haddon, George, 40 Carr Lane, Hull, Yorks., chairmaker (1823). [D]
Haddon, John, Hull, Yorks., chairmaker (1804). App. to George Spenceley of Hull in 1804. [Hull app. reg.]
Haddon (or Hadden), John, Long Alley, Worship St, London, cm, u and chairmaker (1802–28). Addresses given at no. 3 in 1802; no. 67, 1817–23; and no. 1, 1817–28. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 30 November 1802 for £500, of which £300 accounted for utensils and stock. Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 427, ref. 740491]
Haddon, John, 72 St Martin's Lane, London, u and cm (1819– 27). [D]
Haddon, Joseph, Nuneaton, Warks., chairmaker and turner (1828–35). [D]
Haddon, Joseph, Market Pl., Buckingham, cm and furniture broker (1823). [D]
Haddon, William, Hinckley, Leics., turner (1790–1829). [D]
Haddon, William, 67 Sawney Pope St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Haddrick, —, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, London, carver and gilder (1809–11). [D]
Haddrick, Thomas, Pudding Lane, Maidstone, Kent, cm (1838). [Poll bk]
Haden, William, Deritend, Birmingham, picture frame maker (1800). [D]
Hadfield, Isaac, Liverpool, cm (1796–1815). App. to John Gorton in 1796. Petitioned freedom on servitude in 1815, paying 6s 8d. Admitted freeman on 24 August 1815. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk and reg.]
Hadfield, Robert, Stalybridge, Lancs., cm and joiner (1834). [D]
Hadkinson, Henry, Williamson Sq., Liverpool, cm (1768). Announcement in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 17 June 1768 that Hadkinson had been taken as a partner by Thomas Dobb in June 1768, having previously served as his foreman.
Hadley, Thomas, 91 Smallbrook St, Birmingham, cm and u (1828). [D]
Hadnutt, William, Aldersgate St, London, cm (1779). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1779 for £200, of which £10 accounted for utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 274, p. 515]
Haffen, George, Little Newport St, Covent Gdn, London, carver (1749). [Poll bk]
Hagg, Thomas, Skipton, Yorks., cm (1837). [Holy Trinity PR]
Hagger, Thomas, Market Pl., Potton, Beds., cm, u and auctioneer (1830). [D]
Hagley, John, Harrogate, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hagley, William, Weymouth, Dorset, cm (1823–30). Addresses given at New St in 1823 and 24 St Mary St in 1830. [D]
Hague, John, Newcastle, cm (1750). Took app. named Gair in 1750. [S of G, app. index]
Hague, Josiah, West St, Bristol, cm, chair and bedstead maker (1836–40). [D]
Hague, Mary, Manchester, u (1808–11). Trading at 12 Windmill St in 1808 and 31 Bridge St, 1811. [D]
Hague, Richard, Lancaster, cm (1823–27). Admitted freeman, 1823–24, and named in the Gillow records, 1825–27. [Lancaster freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Hague, Robert, Lancaster, cm (1823–24). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hague, Thomas, 39 Wood St, Manchester, u (1817). [D]
Hague, Thomas, Clarkson's Passage, Walmgate, York, cm (1823). [D]
Hagyard, Thomas, Market Pl., Pocklington, Yorks., cm (1840). [D]
Haiden, William, Birchole St, Deritend, Birmingham, picture frame maker (1803). [D]
Haig, Andrew, 13 Gt May's Buildings, St Martin's Lane, Covent Gdn, London, cm, chairmaker and u (1817–28). [D]
Haig, Andrew, 17 Bedford Ct, Bedford St, Covent Gdn, London, cm and u (1823–28). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 9 October 1823 for £1,000. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 498, ref. 1008478]
Haig, John, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1796–1803). He was left £500 by his cousin, Thomas Haig (of Chippendale & Co.) whose will was made in 1796, codicil in 1802, and proved in 1803. John subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. [PRO, Prob. 11/1394, fo. 536]
Haig, John snr and jnr, & Thomas, Gt Newport St, London, cm (1806). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 7 October 1806 for £300 including £275 on household goods of a brass founder, and £25 on a chest of tools in workshop of Smith, cm, in Grosvenor Mews. [GL, Sun MS vol. 437, ref. 795161]
Haig, John, 14 Castle St, Leicester Sq., London, cm (1808). [D]
Haig, Thomas, St Martin's Lane, London, cm (1754–d. 1803). A Scot, who was book-keeper to Thomas Chippendale's first partner James Rannie and remained with the firm after his master's death in 1766. He emerges from the records as a competent administrator who generally remained in London to deal with clerical work and settle accounts, leaving Chippendale free to supervise the worshops, collaborate with architects, prepare designs and travel into the country to oversee commissions and meet clients. Chippendale jnr was trained up to assist his father with artistic and craft matters. In 1771, to save the firm from bankruptcy, Haig borrowed £2,000 from Rannie's widow and purchased a one-third share in the business which was thereafter styled ‘Chippendale, Haig & Co.’. He subscribed to George Richardson's Book of Ceilings, 1776. After Thomas Chippendale snr died in 1779 Haig became the senior partner, the firm trading as ‘Haig & Chippendale’ until his retirement in 1796. He died a bachelor in 1803 aged 76 and expressed a wish to be buried ‘near to the body of my late revered and venerable master Mr Rannie’ in the vault of St Martin's Church. He is described in his will [PRO, Prob. 11/1394 c 7021] as ‘Gentleman’ and disposed of an estate worth over £10,000. [C. Gilbert, Chippendale] C.G.G.
Haig(h), Thomas, How(e) End, Kirbymoorside, Yorks., cm and/or joiner (1828–40). [D]
Haigh, Francis, Scarborough, Yorks., cm and u (1831–40). Trading at Newborough St in 1831 and 45 Cross St, 1834– 40. [D]
Haigh, George, 11 Charlotte Terr., New Ct, London, u (1820). [D]
Haigh, John, Manchester, chairmaker (1813–33). Addresses given at 13 John St, Gt Ancoats St in 1813, and 41 Thomas St, 1832–33. [D]
Haigh, John, Liverpool, u (1827). App. to Bartholomew Tyrer in 1827. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Haigh, Thomas, Dukinfield, Lancs., cm and joiner (1824–34). Trading at New Rd, 1828–34. [D]
Hail, John, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1828–39). Sons bapt. in 1828 and 1831, daughters in 1837 and 1839. [PR (bapt.)]
Hail, William, Mill Bridge, Skipton, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1837). [D]
Haines, George, 229 High St, Cheltenham, Glos., cm and u (1820). [D]
Haines, George, Grosvenor Row, Chelsea (Pimlico), London, cm, u, auctioneer, appraiser and undertaker (1835–39). Recorded at no. 6 in 1835 and no. 9 in 1839. [D]
Haines, John, Kempsey, Worcs., upholder (1747). [Worcester poll bk]
Haines, John, Belgrave Gate, Leicester, cm (1827). [D]
Haines, Richard, 7 Drake St, Red Lion Sq., London, carver and gilder (1835–39). [D]
Haines, William, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1766–67). Acted as witness to the will, dated 1767, of William Hallett jnr.
Hains, —, Buckingham, carver (1746). Received a letter in 1746 which read: ‘I have orders from my mother to acquaint you she will not have any frame at all round the Diall Plate of ye Clock…’. [G. Eland, ed., The Purefoy Letters, p. 122]
Hainsworth, James, Shipley, Yorks., cm (1822–30). [D]
Hainsworth, Jonathan, Ling Cross Lane, Halifax, Yorks., chair and cm (1788). Announced in Leeds Intelligencer, 10 June 1788 that he ‘wishes to extend his business in Cabinet Lane’, and has a ‘Large assortment of cabinet goods in his warehouse, bottom of Ling Cross Lane. Chests of drawers, tables, wardrobes, desks, 2 bookcases, various new patterns of mahogany chairs, sofas etc.’.
Hair, William, 225 Kent St, London, chairmaker (1809–11). [D]
Hake, John, near ‘The Sun Tavern’, Upper Shadwell, London, u (1734). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 31 January 1734 for £400, stock in trade accounting for £300. [GL, Sun MS vol. 38, ref. 62990]
Hakes, John, ‘Queen's Head’, Upper Shadwell, London, u (1724). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 2 June 1724 for £500 on goods and merchandise in his house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 17, ref. 32075]
Hakes, Joseph & Edward, ‘Queen's Head’, Upper Shadwell, London, u (1725). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 September 1725 for £500 on goods and merchandise in their house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 21, ref. 36651]
Hakewell, John, London, furniture painter (1769). In April 1769 he was paid £2 8s ‘for Painting 8 Cabriole Chairs Crimson and White’ at Shelburne House, Berkeley Sq., London. [Bowood MS]
Halbert, —, London, carver (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Halden (or Haldon), William, Alston, Cumb, joiner and/or cm (1828–34). [D]
Hale, John, Chepping Wycombe Borough, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798). [Militia Census]
Hale, John, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1805–41). Aged 36 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hale, Richard, 12 St Anne's Ct, Soho, London, chair and sofa maker (1809–11). [D]
Hale, William, 5 Warren St, London, cm (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 19 November 1792 for £100. [GL, Sun MS vol. 389, ref. 607303]
Hale, William, 13 Lumber St, Tythebarn St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1800). [D]
Hale, William, Church St, Spitalfields, London, u and cm (1821–25). Trading at no. 21, 1821–23; and as Hale & Co. at no. 22 in 1825. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 4 October 1821 for £1,000, of which stock and utensils accounted for £800. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 484, ref. 983748]
Hale, William, 6 Osborn Pl., Brick Lane, Whitechapel, London, u and cm (1825–27). [D]
Hales, —, address unrecorded, cm (1739). Supplied ‘6 low back'd Windsor chairs’, costing £5 19s 6d to Holkham Hall, Norfolk, in 1739. [V&A archives]
Hales, —, 1 Bolt Ct, Fleet St, London, u (1803). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. Probably either Charles or R. Hales.
Hales, Charles, 1 Bolt Ct, Fleet St, London, cm, u, appraiser, auctioneer and undertaker (1802–23). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 2 October 1802 for £1,900, of which £1,400 accounted for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 424, ref. 738047] See R. Hales.
Hales, Frederick, 36 Marylebone St, Golden Sq., Piccadilly, London, u and cm (1820–25). [D]
Hales, James, St Gregory's Churchyard, Norwich, cm (1839). [D]
Hales, John, High St, Rochester, Kent, u (1730). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 December 1730 for £500, £350 on household goods and stock in trade, £100 on stock in the house adjoining his own; and £50 on that in the house of John Dickeson, hatter. [GL, Sun MS vol. 33, ref. 52597]
Hales, John, Wem, Salop, cm and joiner (1822). [D]
Hales, Jonathan, High St, King's Lynn, Norfolk, u and cm (1784). [D]
Hales, R., 1 Bolt Ct, Fleet St, London, u (1804–11). [D] See Charles Hales.
Hales, Samuel, 165 Gt Hampton St, Birmingham, cabinet case manufacturer (1835). [D]
Hales, T., 24 Little St Thomas Apostle, London, cm and chair manufacturer (1837). [D]
Hales, Thomas, Widnes, Lancs., upholder (1744). Took app. named Urmston in 1744. [S of G, app. index]
Hale(s), Thomas, Liverpool, u (1734–59). Admitted freeman on 16 October 1734. Thomas Hale took app. named Samuel Bird in 1737. Former app., Edward Roberts, petitioned freedom in 1759. Co-valuer with George Parker, cm, of John Harrison's goods on 6 February 1746. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk, freemen reg. and committee bk; Liverpool RO, 920 GRE 3/1, 5]
Hales, Thomas, 6 New Ct, Bow Lane, and 96 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Sq., London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hales, William, Wem, Salop, cm (1822–30). Trading at High St in 1828. Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 28 December 1830. [D]
Hales, William, Bakehouse Lane, Lutterworth, Leics., turner (1840). [D]
Haley, Henry, Rose & Crown Ct, Cheltenham, Glos., cabinet turner (1839). [D]
Haley, John, Hull, Yorks., carver (1781). [D]
Haley, John, Thurlstone, near Penistone, Yorks., joiner and cm (1822). [D]
Haley, Philip, Plymouth Dock, Devon, cm (1812). Declared bankrupt, Exeter Flying Post, 16 July 1812.
Haley, Robert, Trove St, Plymouth Dock, Devon, joiner and cm (1777–86). Took out Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £700 of which stock and workshop accounted for £300; and on 7 October 1786 for £200 on his house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 258, p. 266; vol. 338, p. 545]
Haley, William, 8 Bermondsey New Rd, London, cm (1829). [D]
Halfe, James, Oxford, upholder (1798). [D]
Halfe, Thomas, Oxford, cm (1802). [Poll bk]
Halfehide, Thomas, Fleet St, London, cm (1715–23). Recorded in Bride Lane, 1715–21; and Salisbury Ct, Fleet St, 1717–23. Fined for non-service at St Bride's in 1715, 1716 and 1721, and served as Questman in 1717. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 5 October 1717 on goods and merchandise in his house. Advertised sale of goods on ‘leaving off trade’, in Daily Post, 18 March 1723. Stock included ‘Several fine scarlet and gold desks and book-cases, several blue and gold, and black and gold, fine cabinets, chests of drawers, desks, and bowfets of all sorts; large lacquere'd trunks, chests and screens…fine lacquer'd tea-tables, several chimney-glasses, peer-glasses, and sconces in gold frames; and several union suits.’ [GL, MS 6561, p. 3; GL, Sun MS vol. 7]
Halford, —, address unrecorded (1779–84). Submitted bills in 1784 for a fire screen provided for the Court Room, Vintners’ Hall, London, costing £9 9s 6d; and in 1779–80 for repairing ‘Great Room skreens £10. 10–’. [V&A archives]
Halford, Edward, Sleaford, Lincs. Oak dressing table, c.1740, recorded, bearing label which reads: ‘EDWARD HALFORD, In Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Where you may be furnished with all sorts of Cabinets and Joyners Work, and Looking-Glasses; all sorts of Maps, English, French and Dutch Prints; all sorts of fine Earthen Ware, English and Delf; all sorts of the Best Flint-Glass, and several sorts of fine Toys at the lowest prizes.’ Table has cabriole legs, and one drawer with the remains of one cotter-pin brass back plate; a shaped apron at the front with applied beading.
Halford, F. W., 6 Baynes Row, Cold Bath Sq., London, Tunbridge-ware manufacturer (1811–25). Recorded, presumably wrongly, as J.W. in 1817–18. [D]
Halford, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1699). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 9 May 1699. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Halford, John, Gloucester, cm (1821–30). Trading at Mitre St in 1830 as cm and u. Children bapt. at St Aldgate in 1821, 1826 and 1827. [PR (bapt.)]
Halford, Robert, St Michael Royall, London, cm (1689). His app., John Evans, died in 1689, whilst in his service. [PCC Wills, Index Lib., vol. 11, p. 93]
Halford, Robert, 13 St Paul's Churchyard, London, gilt leather and screen manufacturer (1770–94). [D]
Halford, Samuel, London, upholder (1734–35). His daughter, Sarah Halford, admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co., 1734–35. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Halford, Sarah, London, upholder (1734–35). Daughter of Samuel Halford, upholder of London; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 5 March 1734/35. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Halford, Thomas, 12½ Cowper St, Finsbury, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Halford, William Henry, address unrecorded, upholder (1737–45). Son of William Henry Halford, Gent., of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London; app. to Henry Weedon on 3 August 1737, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 7 February 1744/45. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Halfpenny, E., 70 Paul St, Finsbury, London, u (1826–35). [D] See William Halfpenny.
Halfpenny, John, Earl St, Radford (Retford?), Notts., turner and fancy chairmaker (1832). [D]
Halfpenny, John, New Lenton, Nottingham, chairmaker (1835). [D]
Halfpenny, Joseph, Little Blake St, York, cm (1787–93). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D]
Halfpenny, Joseph, Belgrave Gate, Leicester, chairmaker (1822–28). [D]
Halfpenny, Joseph, Nottingham, chairmaker (1832–40). Addresses given at Canal St in 1832, Prospect Pl., Lenton in 1834 and Butcher St in 1840. [D]
Halfpenny, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1813–16). Trading at 7 Williamson St, 1813–14, and 17 Tarleton St, 1816. [D]
Halfpenny, William, York, u (1778–98). Trading in Little Blake St in 1798. Son of Thomas Halfpenny, gardener, of Market Weighton; app. to Matthew Browne, u, on 3 April 1778. Admitted freeman in 1789. [D; York app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Halfpenny, William, London, u (1820). Son of William Halfpenny, u, of London; admitted freeman of York in 1820. [York freemen rolls]
Halfpenny, William, 70 Paul St, Finsbury, London, u (1839). [D] See E. Halfpenny.
Halfred, J., London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Halhead, Hannah, Market Pl., Kendal, Westmld, cm and looking-glass silverer (1834). The manager of the business was Thomas P. Dillon. [D]
Halhead, James, Market Pl., Kendal, Westmld, cm and u (1828–29). [D] See James Hallhead.
Halhead, John, Market Pl., Kendal, Westmld, cm and u (1784– 1829). Polled at Lancaster in 1784. [D] See John Hallhead.
Hall, —, Houndsditch, London, undertaker and u (1741). Referred to in London Morning Advertiser, 11 November 1741, as ‘wealthy undertaker & upholsterer. One of the Common Councilmen of Portspoken Ward.’
Hall, Benjamin, address unrecorded, cm (1796). Submitted a bill for cabinet work done at the Court Room, Vintners’ Hall, London, costing £10 12s, on 16 February and 17 September 1796. [V&A archives]
Hall, Benthan, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1813–38). Recorded at Newgate St in 1813, and 75 Pilgrim St, 1824–38. Trade card of Benthan Hall reads ‘Carver & Gilder, Picture Frame Manufacturer, Dealer in Looking Glasses &c. 75 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. NB. Old Plates repolished and silvered, and Old Paintings carefully cleaned.’ Trade card of B. Hall & Son gives the same information. Advertised in Newcastle Chronicle, 15 May 1813. [D; Landauer Coll., MMA, NY]
Hall, Charles, Loft St, Grimsby, Lincs., joiner and cm (1835). [D]
Hall, Christopher, 193 Piccadilly, London, u (1837–39). [D]
Hall, Collinson, London, cm and upholder (1801–12). Addresses given at 3 Bennett St, Rathbone Pl. in 1801, and 85 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Sq., 1806–12. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 15 July 1801 for £500 of which £280 accounted for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 419, ref. 721414]
Hall, Cornelius, Market Pl., Hexham, Northumb., joiner and cm (1827–34). Recorded also at Old Church, 1828–29. [D]
Hall, David, 11 Charles St, City Rd, London, cm and u, cabinet inlayer (1839). [D]
Hall, Edward, Coventry Ct, London, u (1749). [Poll bk]
Hall, Edward, Durham Rd, London, upholder (1749). [Poll bk]
Hall, Edward, Mill St, Gt Driffield, Yorks., cm (1823). [D]
Hall, Edward, Dog Bank, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1834). [D]
Hall, Elkingn, at ‘The Royal Bed’, Holborn Bridge, London, u (1722–49). Partner in Nash, Hall & Whitehorne. [Poll bks; Heal]
Hall, Francis, 10 Craven Buildings, City Rd, London, carver and gilder (1826–37). [D]
Hall, Francis, Applegate St, Leicester, cm (1840). [D]
Hall, George, Preston, Lancs., cm (1782). App. to Michael Emett of Preston, cm, in 1782. [Preston Guild record of burgesses]
Hall, George, King St, Woolwich, Kent, u (1838–39). [D]
Hall, George, Bristol, painter and fancy chairmaker (1838–40). Addresses given at 14 All Saints’ St, 1838–39, and 4 St James's Churchyard in 1840. [D]
Hall, George, 12 Edmund St, Birmingham, u and paper hanger (1839). [D]
Hall, George Thomas, 63 George St, Hastings, Sussex, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hall, George, Cave Lane, Malton, Yorks., joiner and cm (1840). [D]
Hall, Henry, London, upholder and sworn appraiser (1746–d.1796). Rococo trade cards give addresses at ‘The Three Crowns & Dove’, corner of Old Bedlam, Moorfields, c.1760; and later at ‘The Three Crowns’, Old Bedlam, c.1770. Directories and Upholders’ Co. records give 1 Moorfields, 1767–72; Moorfields in 1778; Staining Lane, 1781; and Guildhall in 1794. Son of Richard Hall, yeoman of Hertford; app. to Jonathan Fair, draper and upholder, on 16 September 1746. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 24 May 1756, and master in 1784. Took apps named Benjamin Harper, 1760–67; Mark Dawes until 1773; Samuel Holden, 1767–72; and John Rogers Harper until 1793. [D; Banks Coll., BM; GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hall, Henry, Low Town, Bridgnorth, Salop, cm (1822–35). Trading at Mill St in 1835. [D]
Hall, Henry, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm and carver (1828). [D]
Hall, Henry, St Mary Gate, Chesterfield, Derbs., cm (1835). [D]
Hall, Isaac, Cirencester, Glos., cm (1815–24). Children born in 1815, 1816, 1820, 1822 and 1824. [PR]
Hall, James, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, joiner (1665). Made ceilings and presses for Bishop Cosin's chapel at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland in 1665. [C. Life, 3 February 1972, p. 267]
Hall, James, Worcester, chairmaker (1747). [Poll bk]
Hall, James, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1791). Son of Thomas Hall, framework knitter of Nottingham; app. to Samuel Dodd in 1791. [Nottingham app. list]
Hall, James, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hall, James, Chester, cm (1808). Admitted freeman on 28 January 1808. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hall, James, Spilsby, Lincs., joiner and cm (1822–35). [D]
Hall, James, Durtwick St, North Shields, Northumb., cm and joiner (1827–34). Recorded also at Mount Pleasant in 1834. [D]
Hall, Jesse, Bristol, carver (1734). [Poll bk]
Hall, John, Nottingham, u (d. 1678/79). Probate will dated 1 March 1678/79. [Notts. RO, probate records]
Hall, John, Chester, carver (1708). Son of William Hall of Mostyn, Co. Flint; app. to John Tilston, carver, and admitted freeman of Chester on 10 April 1708. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hall, John, St James's, Westminster, London, upholder (1709). Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 20 December 1709.
Hall, John, Sheffield, Yorks., u (1723). Took app. named Smithys in 1723. [S of G, app. index]
Hall, John, Canterbury, Kent, chairmaker (1734). [Canterbury freemen rolls]
Hall, John, Chester, cm (1774–76). App. to George Fothergill, cm, 15 January 1774 to 20 November 1776. [Chester app. bks]
Hall, John, Chester, joiner and cm (1787). Son of William Hall; app. to John Walker, joiner and cm, 17 April to 21 August 1787. [Chester app. bks]
Hall, John, Tenterden, Kent, chairmaker (1790). [Canterbury poll bk]
Hall, John, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, cm (1793–98). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D]
Hall, John, London, chairmaker (1799). [Norwich poll bk]
Hall, John, Butcher Lane, Bury, Lancs., joiner and cm (1816– 18). [D]
Hall, John, Liverpool, cm (1807–39). Addresses given at 9 Cooper St in 1807; 4 Upper Hanington in 1811; and Tarleton St, 1837–39. [D]
Hall, John, 122 Old St, London, bed pillar, bedstead, chair and sofa manufacturer (1817–27). Trade card, showing engravings of two Regency chairs and turned and carved bedposts, reads: ‘J. Hall, BED PILLOW, Chair, & Music Stool Manufacturer, No. 122, Old Street, London. Turning in General.’ [D; London Borough of Hackney, archives dept, 332 TDE/14] See Hall & Barfoot.
Hall, John, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincs., joiner, carpenter, wheelwright and cm (1825). Trading in partnership with William Graburn, also making bricks, tiles and dealing in timber. [D]
Hall, John, Darn Crook, Newcastle, u (1828). [D]
Hall, John, Mount Pleasant, Skipton, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hall, John Henry, Worcester, cm (1834). App. to Daniel Cowell; admitted freeman on 17 November 1834. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hall, John, 3 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, iron bedstead maker (1839). [D]
Hall, John, address unrecorded (c.1765). Assisted James Gravenor as a carver in the execution of the Palm tree mirror in the dressing room at Kedleston, Derbs. [C. Life, 9 February 1979, p. 323] Possibly Joseph Hall
Hall, Jonathan jnr, Lancaster, cm (1787–99). Named in the Gillow records, 1787–88. App. to William Blackburn in 1792, and admitted freeman, 1798–99. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow] Possibly two craftsmen are concerned here.
Hall, Joseph, Hull, Yorks., cm, carpenter and joiner (1740–54). Son of Joseph Hall, joiner; admitted burgess in 1740. In 1749 his app. William Lodge appealed successfully to the Magistrates for release from his apprenticeship on grounds of ill-treatment. Polled at Hull in 1754. Trade card, c.1745–55, shows an early-Georgian pedimented mirror, kneehole desk with dressing glass, two tripod tables, one bearing a kettle, a side table with elaborate cabriole leg and festoons, an unusual chest of drawers topped by a bookcase (?), and a Classical pavilion with columns showing stock inside: a coffee grinder, cruet, saucepan and violin. Card reads: ‘Joseph Hall, Blackfrier Gate, Hull. Makes & Sells all Sort of Cabinett Work; Viz. Chest of Drawers of all Sorts, Desks, and Bookcases, Bueros, Desks, Card Dining Breakfast & Dressing Tables (in Mahogany, Walnut tree & Wainscott). Chairs of all sorts, Settee, Buero & Standing Bedsteads, Sconces, peir, Chimney and Dressing Glasses, Tea Chests, Tea Boards, China Trayes, Fire Screens, Dumb Waiters, Picture Frames Stained Carved & Gilt &c. Likewise all Sorts of Carpenters and Joiner's Work Performed all at very Reasonable Rates.’ [Heal Coll., BM; Antique Collector, March-April 1946, p. 59, and March 1966; C. Life, 3 October 1974; Furniture Made in Yorkshire, Temple Newsam Exhib. Cat., p. iv]
Hall, Joseph, address unrecorded, carver (c.1758–70). Received £2,501 3s 4½d, c.1758–70, for work done at Kedleston Hall, Derbs., including in 1765 carving the mirrors for the State Bedroom. [V&A archives; Conn., July 1978, p. 206]
Hall, Joseph, 6 Wallbrook, London, u (1808–15). [D]
Hall, Joseph, 12 Gt Dover St, St George's, Southwark, London, u (1816–27). [D]
Hall, Joseph Mayor, 35 Broad St, Bristol, cm (1816–32). [D]
Hall, Joseph, 19 Thomas St, Bristol, chairmaker (1825–26). [D]
Hall, Joseph, 1 John St, Marylebone, London, u (1826–27). [D]
Hall, Joseph, Denton's Green, St Helens, Lancs., joiner and cm (1828). [D]
Hall, Joseph, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1830). [Shrewsbury burgess roll] See Thomas Hall, his brother.
Hall, Mark, London, cm (1784). [York poll bk]
Hall, Matthew, 30 Newgate St, Newcastle, cm (1834). [D]
Hall, Peter, London, cm and u (1761). Arrival from London to USA announced in South Carolina Gazette, 19 December 1761.
Hall, Pierce (or Pearce), at ‘The Chair’, in St John's St, near Hicks Hall, London, cm and chairmaker (1754–c.1760). Rococo trade card, c. 1755–60, shows Chippendale-style chair in an elaborately shaped surround. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [Banks Coll., BM]
Hall, R., London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hall, Richard, Lancaster, cm (1767–68). Admitted freeman, 1767–68, when stated of Halifax, Yorks. [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hall, Richard, Skerton, Lancaster, chairmaker (1811–34). Admitted freeman, 1811–12. [D; Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hall, Richard, South Shields, Co. Durham, cm and/or joiner (1834). [D]
Hall, Robert, ‘The Angel’, Hounsditch, St Botolph's, Aldgate, London, u (1714). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 14 August 1714 on goods and merchandise in his house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 4, ref. 4405]
Hall, Robert, Gt St Helen's, within Bishopsgate, London, u (1713–26). Took apps on 15 June and 30 December 1713. Named in directories and newspapers, 1717–26. [PRO, app. reg.; Heal]
Hall, Robert, 16 Albion St, Rotherhithe, London, wood and cabinet carver (1839). [D]
Hall, Samuel, Poland St, London, u (1784). [Poll bk]
Hall, Samuel, St James's Mkt, London, cm (1784). [D]
Hall, Samuel, 4 Little Hampton St, Birmingham, cabinet case maker (1835). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Lancaster, cm (1770–80). App. to Thomas Lister, 1770, and admitted freeman, 1779–80. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hall, Thomas, 20 (Gt) Garden Row, London Rd, London, cm, u and joiner (1808–28). Trading as Hall & Son, 1820–28. [D]
Hall, Thomas, Snig-brook, Blackburn, Lancs., cm and joiner (1814–18). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Newcastle, cm and u (1815). Advertised for workmen in Newcastle Chronicle, 16 September 1815.
Hall, Thomas, Bowling Green, Rainford, Lancs., victualler, joiner and cm (1825). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Leeds, Yorks., cm and joiner (1826–34). Trading at 26 Wellington Yd, 1826, and 18 Harper St, 1830. [D]
Hall, Thomas, Howard St, North Shields, Northumb., cm, joiner and u (1827–29). [D]
Hall, Thomas, 2 Tyne St, North Shields, Northumb., u (1834). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Hospital St, Nantwich, Cheshire, u (1828–29). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Back St, Brampton, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/ or cm (1829). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Chester, weaver and u (1831). Admitted freeman on 25 April 1831. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hall, Thomas, Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1835). [Shrewsbury burgess roll] See Joseph Hall, his brother.
Hall, Thomas, High St, Hereford, cm and u (1835). [D]
Hall, Thomas, Bridge St, Kington, Herefs., turner and chairmaker (1835–40). [D]
Hall, Thomas, 3 East St, Finsbury Mkt, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hall, William jnr, Derby, carver (1741). [Poll bk]
Hall, William, Sheffield, Yorks., cm (1748). Took app. named Barnes in 1748. [S of G, app. index]
Hall, William, 2 Broker Row, Moorfields, London, cm (1792– 1811). Trading in partnership with Hersant, 1803–11, and succeeded by Hunter & Hersant. Hall & Hersant are named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803, and their trade card is recorded. [D; Heal]
Hall, William, Lancaster, chairmaker (1810–12). Took app. on 15 November 1810. His son Richard was admitted freeman as a chairmaker in 1811–12. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hall, William, Hull, Yorks., cm (1812). App. to Edward Dicken in March 1812. [Hull app. reg.]
Hall, William, 49–50 Windmill St, Haymarket, London, u and undertaker (1816–19). [D]
Hall, William, Norwich, cm (1818–30). [Poll bk]
Hall, William, 2 Newman St, Oxford St, London, cm and chair manufacturer (1820). [D]
Hall, William, 21 Church St, Spitalfields, London, cm and u (1822). [D]
Hall, William, Kingsland Rd, London, cm (1823). [D]
Hall, William, Skerton, Lancaster, chair and bedstead maker (1822–25). [D]
Hall, William, 17 High St, St Giles, Bloomsbury, London, cm and u (1826–28). [D]
Hall, William, High Row, Darlington, Co. Durham, cm (1827– 29). [D]
Hall, William, Rothbury, Northumb., cm and/or joiner (1828– 34). [D]
Hall, William, Gomersal, Birstall, Yorks., cm and joiner (1828–29). [D]
Hall, William, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1829–34). Addresses given at Elliotts Lane, Scotch St, and Back St, Brampton in 1829; and Union Ct, Scotch St in 1834. [D]
Hall & Barfoot, 122 Old St, St Lukes, London, cm (1829). [D] See John Hall.
Hall & Rostill (or Rostilt), Hill St, Birmingham, ‘manufacturers of leather, tortoiseshell & ivory snuff boxes, sugar, etui bottle &c cases, caddies, chests & ladies workboxes’ (1808–18). [D]
Hall & Tildesley, South Molton St, London, cm and u (1826– 37). Trading at no. 45, 1826–28, and no. 43 in 1837. [D]
Halla, William, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Halladay, —, Bath, Som., cm (1819–26). Listed at 5 Trim St in 1819 and 4 Parsonage Lane in 1826. [D]
Halladay, Stephen, Canterbury, Kent, cm (1790–96). Recorded at Burgate in 1790 and St Andrew in 1796. Took out an undated Sun Insurance policy for £300 on his house in Burgate St; and a further policy for £400 including two houses under one roof in Sun St. [Poll bks; GL, Sun MS vols 370 and 388, p. 560]
Hallam, E., Houndsgate, Nottingham, cm (1774–d.1796). Recorded at Angel Row in 1774. [Poll bk; Notts. RO, probate records] See Hallam & Green and Hallam & Pid(l)ock.
Hallam, Edward, Lenton, Nottingham, cm (1812). [Poll bk]
Hallam, Edward, Warsop, Notts., joiner and cm (1832). [D]
Hallam, James, Dudley, Worcs., chairmaker (1839). [D]
Hallam, John, address unrecorded, joiner (1700). Named in the Chatsworth account book 6 in June 1700, ‘For makeing 24 yards of deal wainscot in a Press to hang his Graces Clothes in at 6d a yard’, costing £1 12s; and ‘Making a Cupboard in ye passage to ye Stewards parlour’, 3s. Hallam also carried out general joinery duties such as taking down and putting up furniture.
Hallam, John, St Peter'sgate, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1832–34). Listed at Chandler's Lane in 1834. Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 22 April 1834. [D] See Joseph and Thomas Hallam.
Hallam, Joseph, Nottingham, cm (1832–40). Recorded at St Peter'sgate, also as a joiner, in 1832; at Petergate and Warsergate, also as an u, in 1834; and at Petergate and Houndsgate in 1840. [D]
Hallam, Richard, Leeming St, Mansfield, Notts., cm (1819). [D]
Hallam, Samuel, Dudley, Worcs., cm and u (1838–40). Advertised in Bentley's Directory of Dudley, 1838, as ‘S. HALLAM, chair Manufacturers, Dudley. All kinds of fancy & Windsor Chairs in the most modern style of workmanship. India Canework in all its Branches, Rosewood Graining etc.’. Trading at High St in 1840. [D]
Hallam, Thomas, Rotherham, Yorks., cm (1802). App. to John Chapman of Hull on 2 May 1802. [Hull app. reg.]
Hallam, Thomas, St Peter'sgate, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1832). [D] See John and Joseph Hallam.
Hallam & Green, Angel Row, Nottingham, cm, joiners and u (1805–08). [D] See Edward Hallam.
Hallam & Pid(l)ock, Nottingham, cm, joiners and carpenters (1784–91). Advertised with other tradesmen in Nottingham Journal, 31 July 1784, wanting cabinet-makers, joiners and carpenters immediately. Signed the Nottingham Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, on behalf of the masters. See Hallum & Pidcock.
Hallert, John, Nottingham. Signed the Nottingham Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, on behalf of the masters. Probably John Hallet(t).
Hallet, J. M., Chapel Bar, Nottingham, cm (1803). [Poll bk]
Hallet(t), John, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1798–99). Recorded as Hallet at Toll House Hill in 1799. [D] Probably John Hallert.
Hallett, Charles, 53 Dorset St, Portman Sq., London, u (1839). [D]
Hallett, J. B., Berkeley, Glos., cm (1839–40). [D]
Hallett, William snr, Gt Newport St, Long Acre, London, cm (b. c. 1707–d. 1781), Hallett, William jnr, cm (c. 1730–d. 1767). In 1938 the late R. W. Symonds published an article on Hallett, Vile and Cobb [Conn., April 1938, pp. 183–91] in which he stated that William Hallett was born in July 1707 and died in December 1781. Despite a very extensive search it has not proved possible to establish the source for the July 1707 date. However we know Hallett died on 17 December 1781, and was buried at St Lawrence, Whitchurch on 28 December. [PR; Furn. Hist., 1985] He was 74 years old which seems a credible span for his life. Hallett was born, seemingly, at Crewkerne, Som., to William and his wife. Her maiden name is unknown. William had brothers, George, and (Sir) James, who died in 1733. It was Sir James's son, also James (d. 1723 in France) who was the father of Lettice (or Letitia) who married William Hallett, the cm, as his second wife, in 1756. In other words William married his cousin. However the reader should be spared the full intricacies of an involved story; it is set out, with pedigrees in Furn. Hist., 1985.
What is interesting however about the Crewkerne origin for Hallett is that he could have encountered William Vile — whom he was later to support financially — at an early age. Vile was born somewhere in Somerset about 1700–05. An aid to being more precise is denied through the destruction of the many Hallett and Vile wills (Taunton Archdeaconry) in Second World War raids on Exeter. [Listed E. A, Fry (ed.), Taunton Wills, 1537–1799, British Record Soc., 1912] There is no reason to assume he was the app. of this name put to John Baxter of Sarum, Wilts. in 1728. [S of G, app. index] Indeed, Hallet snr had set up as a cm by 1730, when he took his first app., Ralph Sharrington, for £15, a fee which was slightly lower than the average fee for the period. This 1730 expansion is further support for the presumed year of his birth. Apprenticeship at age 14 in say, 1721, with service of seven years would bring the date to 1728–29. Furthermore as William Hallet jnr was born by 1730 his father's marriage to Anne —, had taken place about the time he ended his years of training. William set up in London at Great Newport St, Long Acre, and his first recorded commission from that address was in 1735. We know of another ten over the same number of years.
By 1747 William, using whatever money his father had left, and the success of his business, bought items at the demolition sale of the 1st Duke of Chandos's great house of Cannons at Edgeware, and then built himself a house on the old centre foundations. He is shown holding a plan of his new house in a conversation-piece by Francis Hayman, RA, c. 1750 (frontispiece, GCM; Hughes-Hallett Coll.). The dates of marriages and births however do not allow us to be certain who the seven figures depicted in the painting are, but they are held to be Hallett's wife, his son, daughter-in-law, grand-daughter, and his father and mother-in-law by his (first) marriage. William Hallet jnr, born about 1730, married in December 1753 his first wife, Hannah Hopkins, the heiress of the successful financier and South Sea stock speculator, John ‘Vulture’ Hopkins of Brittons, Essex. [Gents Mag., 23, 1753/ 54, 590; London Evening Post, 15–18 December 1753] William snr's second marriage to Lettice Hallett had brought over her considerable dowry. From the early 1750s therefore he seems to have been drawn more and more to his property interests, allowing his son to continue his business, however casually, and supporting, albeit as a sleeping partner, the new partnership (1751–52) of William Vile and John Cobb. Vile was still calling Hallett ‘my Master’ in 1749 [Furn. Hist., 1975] and was probably his journeyman at this time.
For this theory to be credible it is necessary to assume that William Hallett I made no furniture after the mid 1750s, or in any case after his second marriage in 1756. The theory holds in the evidences accumulated for this Dictionary, and is confirmed, if we can read a little into a letter from Hallett to James Whittle of April 1755. In asking consent for his nephew Samuel Norman to visit Ann Whittle with a view to marriage, Hallett implied that he desisted before in encouragement because Norman was of the same business ‘but as things are now Surcomstanc'd that Objection is removed with regard to myself’. [PRO, C 112/194, pt 2] The state of the complex arguments may be summarized as follows: (a) William Hallett snr made furniture from about 1730 — with work for Lord Irwin as the first recorded commission (1735) — until the early 1750s. (b) He allowed his son, William jnr to carry on running some sort of furniture-making business after he had more or less retired in the early 1750s as the squire of Cannons. The son, due to his wealth, pursued the business with casual inattention. (See also Reynolds, Commissions 1750 below.) (c) William snr (and to a certain extent his son) acted as ‘sleeping partners’ in the firm of Vile & Cobb. This is attested by payments and receipts in the Hallett, Vile and Cobb bank accounts. [Drummonds Branch, Royal Bank of Scotland] William jnr predeceased his father in 1767 [will PRO, Prob. 11/928, f. 180], and Cannons was left in his father's will [PRO, Prob. 11/1086, f. 25] to the grandson, William (1764–1842). (d) It is William III, with his first wife Elizabeth Lettice Stephen who are the subjects in Thomas Gainsborough's The Morning Walk (National Gallery, London) 1786. He is not known to have had any furnituremaking connections. (e) Most of the family are buried at St Lawrence, Whitchurch but it has not been established where William snr was married or where his son William jnr was baptized. (f) Confusion with a William Hallot, cm has occurred.
It is important to pursue genealogical probems in order to see what is probable. It is my belief that certain items of furniture with foliate ovals which can be dated to c. 1750 are more likely to be by William Hallett snr than his journeyman William Vile, and that Vile continued the ‘style’ in later years (e.g. the bookcase c. 1762, for Queen Charlotte. [Burlington, July 1977, p. 485, pls 17–18]
Some of the transfer of style may have been done in workshop terms through Samuel Reynolds, and in 1753 Hallett had moved his business from Newport St to St Martin's Lane. He took premises next to Vile & Cobb's. Two years later his name is crossed through in the rate bks [Westminster Ref. Lib.] and Cobb's is inserted. Reynolds had signed for money on Hallett's behalf in 1750, but a year or two later he did so on behalf of Vile & Cobb. I have noted this ‘transfer’ as early as 1753 (Commissions, below, Canons Ashby).
Within their business the Halletts were also served for a time by Edward Edwards who later established himself as a painter and was appointed a Royal Academician. [H. Walpole, Anecdotes of Painters, 1798] The business took apps from 1730 (Ralph Sharrington); 1732 (Philip Davis); 1733 (Chris. Bingham); 1736 (Joseph Beale); 1742 (James Cole); 1756 (James Stewart). The app. recorded in 1765 was to William Hallot. At some point Hallett snr was in ‘partnership’ with the successful painter-stainer, Thomas Bromwich. This was about 1745, but as late as 1756 Richard Cambridge coupled their names in his Elegy Written in an Empty Assembley Room ‘… In scenes where Hallet's genius has combin'd with Bromwich to amuse and cheer the mind …’. They both worked at Holkham and Uppark [Furn. Hist., 1965] and both were mentioned by the inveterate letterwriter, Horace Walpole, who had some Gothic furniture by Hallett, and wrote also of his ‘mongrel Chinese’ furniture.
Finally we must dismiss, I hope with certainty, the reported event of Hallett's bankruptcy in 1769. I have advanced good reasons [Furn. Hist., 1985] to show that this has been an orthographical confusion with the separate cm, William Hallot. The bankruptcy record and Hallot's signature (compared to that of the two Halletts) establishes a separate person, whose work has been, alas, credited to the squire of Cannons. The entry in 1769 for Hallot [Gents Mag., 39, 1769] confirmed as ‘Hallot’ by title, and signature [London Gazette, 22–25 April 1769; PRO, B/6. A 11, p. 55, and Bailey's list of bankrupts, 1773, p. 35] was mistaken as Hallett in Furn. Hist., 1966. The fortunes left by Hallett and his son, and the fact that Hallett jnr at least had predeceased the alleged bankruptcy pushes it further to the name of William Hallot. However, mystery persists, with the Westminster rate bks showing an otherwise unknown Samuel Hallett living in Long Acre in 1753 (when Hallett snr was in St Martin's Lane). He stayed there until at least 1762 — the books for 1763–64 are missing and there are no Hallett entries for 1765–71. Could he be another son of William snr? Research continues, but is unlikely to upset the pattern established above for Hallett snr's removal from active cabinet-making in the early 1750s.
ARTHUR INGRAM, 7th VISCOUNT IRWIN. 1735: August, 18 carved walnut tree chairs at 23s, 22 other chairs. September, 12 matted chairs, 2 tables, 6 common chairs. February 1736, three tables, dressing glass, two voyders etc. Received £45 13s 6d from Viscountess Irwin, an executrix of her husband, but not until 28 years later in 1763. The furniture was made for the London house, and sent in 1736 to Temple Newsam House, Leeds. [Conn., December 1964, pp. 224–25 advert. John Keil Ltd; Sotheby's, 24 June 1966, lot 127; ibid., lot 200, January 1978]
OKEOVER HALL, Staffs. (Leake Okeover). 1736–38: 2 mahogany chests, ‘a Handsome glass in a Carved and gilt frame in Burnish gold, £19. 10s.’. [C. Life, 30 January 1964, p. 288, fig. 15]
ROUSHAM HOUSE, Oxon. (General James Dormer). 1737: ‘For a Large Wainscot press for Books, £7. 10. 0. For a Lybrary stool on Castors. 0. 15. 0.’. [ Rousham MS at house]
HOLKHAM HALL, Norfolk (1st Earl of Leicester). 1737–52: 18 March 1737, ‘Mr Hallett for a pattern chair for Holkham £3. 5s.’ (This may be the chair illus. Apollo, February 1964, p. 128, and Furn. Hist., 1965, p. 15, but surely the payment is too low?) 15 April 1738, for a pattern chair £3 5s — ‘in exchange for a pattern chair which he received £3. 5s. for on the 18th of March last. £2. 5s.’ 1747: ‘For a canvas screen, altering a glass frame & polishing.’ 1748: ‘2 mahogany trays for long dishes £2. 3. 0. do. for glasses £1. 4. 0. 2 mahogany stands £2. 10. 0. 2 canvas screens 1.18.0. 2 night tables 1.8.0. mahogany dumb waiter (London) 1.11.0. 43 yds of check linnen for chair covers £3. 3.–.’ 1749: trays, screens, stands, etc. 1751: ‘2 night tables £1. 4. 6. 2 chess tables £3. 3.–. Mending a voider £—.9. 6.’. 1752:‘2 night tables & a case £1. 15. 0.’. [Holkham, Weekly Departmental Accounts, transcript in V & A archives; C. Life, 11 February 1980, pp. 427–31]
GIBSIDE, Co. Durham. 1739–45: ‘For a good mahog. couch’, £12 17s. 30 April 1745: ‘Paid Hallett ye Cabinet-maker his bill in full of accounts. £89. 13s. 6d.’. [Mrs Bowes's cash accounts, Durham RO, D/St/326; V. 1325]
AUGUSTA, Princess of Wales. 1740–41: Abstract of expenses, 1 July 1740–1 July 1741. 4 April 1741. Received £38 7s. [Windsor Royal Archives, 55426]
BADMINTON, Glos. (4th Duke of Beaufort). 24 June 1740: Paid £100. 24 April 1742: Received £16. 13s. Possibly for Kentian style seat furniture, or library table, North Hall. [Badminton papers, 308.101.2, Hoare's Bank vouchers]
CANNON HALL, Yorks. (John Spencer). 1741 May 15: Card Table £2 2s; Dining Table £2 2s; Mahogany Writing Table £5. 5s; Straining Frame £1. 4s; Total £10. 13s. ‘4 Chairs, £3; 8 Do, £8.8.0; 1 Do, £2.10; 1 Do, £1. 8; Total £15. 6.0. Book Case Gilding and Locks, all Deal £9. 19. 0. 2 Sconces & Frames £8. 15. 0. Gilding–. 8.–. 3 India Pictures £1. 2. 6. To June 2, 1741. £46. 3.6.’. Hallett also provided a bed and its bedclothes and dressed it with green Harateen. This amounted to a further £18. 9s 1d making a final total of £64 12s 7d, with carriage charges, in November 1741, of £3 14s 9d. [Sheffield City Lib., archives dept, JS 60685–87]
DITCHLEY PARK, Oxon. (2nd Earl of Lichfield). 1742: ‘For tables, stands and screen’. [Oxford RO, Dillon I/p/3/b1]
DUCHESS OF MONTROSE. 1742: ‘2 Chimney glasses in carved mahogany frames £6. 8.0. & £4. 0. 0.; a sconce in a carved mahogany frame £10.10. 0.; 13 black frames with gilt edges for pictures £2. 9. 6.’, receipted account, 1742. [Scottish RO, GD220/6/899/63]
WILTON HOUSE. Wilts. (7th Earl of Pembroke). 1742: 7 April. ‘To Hallett, 3 pair of candlestands, silvered nozzles, £5. 8s. 0d.’ [Apollo, July 1964, p. 4]
DEENE PARK, Northants. 1745: Unspecified work. [GCM]
REDBRAES CASTLE, Berwicks., Scotland. 1745: Hallett & Bromwich, Cabinet-maker and paper-hanger. Received £184 15s. [Scottish RO, GD. I/651/19]
MOULSHAM HALL, Essex (Earl Fitzwalter). 1745–48: 6 March 1745: ‘Pd Mr Halett of Newport Street for Ten black leather bottom'd chairs for my dining room in town £17. 10s.’ (i.e. Schomberg House). 12 March 1746: ‘Pd Mr Hallett, upholster, his bill in full’ £9 19s. 1 April 1747: ‘Pd Mr Hallett for a little firescreen’ £1. 1s. 17 May 1748: Pd Mr Wm Hallett for a light fire screen £1. 1s. [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, pp. 110–12]
ST GILES'S, Dorset (4th Earl of Shaftesbury). 1745: 2 February, ‘Paid as pr Bill to Mr Hallet for carved chairs. £167’. As Hallett's chairs for Lord Irwin (above) cost 23s each many of the chairs formerly at the house may be Hallett's (listed Christie's, 26 June 1980, p. 8). 1746: 26 April, ‘Paid as pr Bill to Mr Hallet for making and putting up ye bed (This refers to a blue damask bed for which 45 yds of blue damask was provided at a cost of £22 1s on 15 April 1746). The bed does not survive. 1746: 3 June, ‘Paid as pr Bill to Mr Hallet. £17. 10s. 0d.’ 1752: 20 August, ‘Paid Mr Hallet as pr Bill for Mahogany Cisterns £5. 15s. 0.’ [Archives at house: copies, V & A archives; see also Christie's, 26 June 1980, account illus. as catalogue endpapers; see this sale, lots 91–96, and Sotheby's, 18 November 1983, lot 54] A mahogany commode which may have been by Hallett (rather than Vile) was sold Christie's, 27 March 1952, lot 75, and another, Christie's, 3 July 1953, lot 283. There is a similar example at the Toledo Museum (GCM, pl. 56), and a number are illustrated by Coleridge, Thomas Chippendale (e.g. pls 9–10). Caution is necessary however as documentation is lacking in all cases.
KIRTLINGTON PARK, Oxon. (Sir James Dashwood). 1747–52: Payments of 2 November 1747 (£425), 12 March 1750 (£42), 22 February 1752 (£31) in ‘General Account of money expended on my new house and the outworks about it begun 12 Sept. 1741’. [Apollo, January 1980]
SIR WM BEAUCHAMP PROCTOR. 1748: 2 May–9 August, furniture including ‘3 large Mahog. Dining Tables to join to Dine from £15.5; Carved & Gilt Picture Frames £9. 10s. Received £64. 13s. 4d. less £5 Recd by 2 tea tables much broke’. Intended for Langley House, Norfolk, or a London house in Bruton St. [Norfolk RO, BEA 305/41]
ALSCOT, Warks. (James West). 4 August 1748: mahogany knife tray, brass corners (14s); two mahogany pails on frames, brass hoops and handles (£4); mahogany tray to carry dishes (12s); mahogany chest of drawers with a sliding board (£4); mahogany bottle tray on castors (£1 5s); glass case in a redwood frame & ebony mouldings (£16). Received £26 18s 6d on 13 January 1749. On 29 February 1752 William Hallett jnr receipted a bill for a ‘Globe Lanthorn, etc. in the sum of £7 8s ‘for my Father Willm Hallett’. This was for work of 20 July 1750. [Alscot MS at house]
1748: At a sale of the EARL of CHOLMONDELEY'S estate, Richmond, Surrey, the Catalogue and plans could be inspected at ‘Mr Hallett's Gt. Newport Street, Long Acre’. [General Advertiser, 30 March 1748]
LONDON, St James's Sq. (Peter Du Cane). 1749:
[Essex RO, D/DC A12, f. 73; A 80. Du Cane's seat was at Great Braxted, Essex, hence these bills at Essex RO]
3rd EARL of BURLINGTON. 1750: f. 22 (1750) ‘Paid Mr William Hallett, cabinet maker (for Chiswick) £21. 8. 0. f. 98 (5 Aug. 1751) Paid Mr Willm Hallett by Saml Reynolds the sum of £8 5. 0 for a Machine Chair’. (Signed by Reynolds for Hallett. This is interesting further confirmation of Hallett's involvement with Vile and Cobb, as Reynolds was later in their employ after Hallett had, as suggested, ‘retired’.) [Chatsworth, Ledger, ‘An Account current with … the Earl of Burlington commencing 11 Ap. 1750 by John Ferrett’]
UPPARK, Sussex (Sir Matthew Featherstonhaugh). 1754: 27 March, ‘Pd Mr Hallett for a cabinet £43. 5. 6d’. This may refer to a glazed mahogany cabinet of architectural design on a stand at Uppark. [Conn., November 1967, pp. 158–59, fig. 1]
STRAWBERRY HILL, Middlx (Horace Walpole). 1755: 20 September, Sofas, chairs, pier glass in Gothic style for the Great Parlour or Refectory. 4 chairs are in the W. S. Lewis Coll., Farmington, USA. One chair is at V & A Museum (W29–1979), and the Glass is Coll. Lord Walpole. [Paget Toynbee (ed.), Strawberry Hill Accounts, 1927, pp. 6, 82–85; Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, Orleans House, Twickenham (1980) Nos 84–85] Walpole in a letter to Richard Bentley, 5 July 1755, writes of Hallett's ‘mongrel Chinese’ (furniture). [Yale edn H. Walpole's Correspondence]
LORD ANSON. 1756: 24 November, £220 credited to Hallett's bank account from Lord Anson. [Drummonds Branch, Royal Bank of Scotland] 1763: A pencil inscription ‘William Hallet(t), 1763 Long Acre’ appears on the carcase of the base of a cabinet, formerly colls Lord Wharton; Colonel Norman Colville (Christie's, 1 December 1977, lot 124, Sotheby's, 19 March 1982, lot 45). For views on this see Furn. Hist., 1965 and ibid., 1985. A related cabinet was sold Christie's, 21 May 1984, lot 374, bought P. Hewat-Jaboor. The cabinets are likely to date to the 1750s with the inscription being added for some reason in later years. The inscription was first published by A. Coleridge in Furn. Hist., 1965, p. 11.
HATFIELD PRIORY, Essex (John Wright). 1769: ‘William Hallet £75’. This late entry would be after William Hallett jnr's death, 1767, and was rendered presumably as a late debt to his father. [Hoare's Bank, London, vol. 79, f. 160] G.B.
Halley, Edmund, 24 Bourne St, Hull, Yorks., chairmaker and Hackney gig owner (1826). Recorded as grocer and flour dealer at 14 Worship St and Bourne St, 1831–34. [D]
Halley, George, Stoke Damarell, Devon, cm (1759). Took app. named Angrove in 1759. [S of G, app. index]
Halley, George snr and jnr, Shifnal, Salop, cm and auctioneer (1797–98). [D]
Halley, George Henry, Wakefield, Yorks., cm and u (1803–05). Trading at Northgate in 1805. Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. [D]
Halley, Thomas, Hull, Yorks., coach and furniture painter (1823). Took app. named William Clark of York in April 1823. [Hull app. reg.]
Hallhead, James, Lancaster, u (1811–12). Admitted freeman, 1811–12, when stated ‘of Kendal’. [Lancaster freemen rolls] See James Halhead.
Hallhead, John, Lancaster, cm and carver (1771–80). App. to J. Neill in 1771, and admitted freeman, 1779–80, when stated ‘of Kendal’. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls] See John Halhead.
Halliday, Andrew, 47 Fleet St and 4 Lettman Pl., Bolton St, Liverpool, cm (1824). [D]
Halliday, Henry, York, cm (1826). Son of John Halliday; app. to Thomas Walls, cm and u, of York, on 18 December 1826. [York app. reg.]
Halliday, Henry, 30 Lower Edmund St, King's Cross, London, veneer cutter (1835). [D]
Halliday, John, Parsonage St, Dursley, Glos., u and cm (1816– 23). Children born in 1816 and 1820. [D; PR]
Halliday, Thomas, Bedfordbury, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1774). [Poll bk]
Halliday, Thomas, Old Round Ct, Strand, London, cm (1784). [D]
Hallier, Charles, London, upholder (1780–1802). Trading at 24 Watling St in 1788, and Sewers Office, Guildhall, in 1802. Son of William Hallier, tin plate worker of Bread St; app. to Edward Shipman on 1 March 1780, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 5 March 1788. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Halling, William, Gloucester, cm (1828–32). Children bapt. at St John Baptist Church between 1828–32. [PR (bapt.)]
Hallock, John, Hautboys, Norfolk, cm (1839). [D]
Hallot, William, Long Acre, London, cm, u, dealer and chapman (1762–73). It might well be thought that ‘William Hallot’ is a mistake for ‘William Hallett’. However a letter written by Hallot, the question of the dates of his activity, comparison of the handwriting and signatures of William Hallett, his son, and William Hallot do seem to point to a separate personality, albeit one who went bankrupt in 1769. This discreditable act was levelled at William Hallett snr (Furn. Hist., XI, 1975, p. 114) on the assumption that unconventional orthography in writing ‘William Hallot’ — [Gents Mag., April 1769, vol. 39, p. 216; repeated as Hallot in The Universal Magazine, April 1769, vol. 44, p. 223] — was a mistake for Hallett.
Hallot's only known bill and letter relate to furniture supplied in July 1762 to James Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh MS, DR 18/8/5, Household Accounts, Box 2, Bundle 2). His letter sent to Leigh from London on 2 August 1763 has many differences to the hand of either William Hallett snr, or his son. I have published the three relevant signatures [Furn. Hist., XXI, 1985] and have been able to look at some twenty examples of the Hallett hand which stays consistent throughout, and consistent in its differences to that of Hallot.
In the case of the bankruptcy we would, by its date (1769), have in any case to exclude confusion with William Hallett jnr (who died in 1767). His father William Hallett snr's bank account [Drummonds Branch, Royal Bank of Scotland] shows a good balance for 1768 — the A–H ledger for 1769 is not extant. Also Hallett's daughter married in 1779 with a dowry of £70,000 [Gents Mag., 1779, p. 566] Hardly the background of a bankrupt father and impecunious daughter. I believe therefore we must accept William Hallot. He is recorded in that name as taking an app. William Wightwize(?) in 1765, noted as ‘William Hallot Upholder, St Martin's, Westminster’, for a premium of £50. To confuse us however the name is not in the rate bks covering Long Acre. The London Gazette, 22–25 April 1769, noted ‘Commission of Bankruptcy is awarded against William Hallot of Long Acre …Upholder, Cabinet-Maker, Dealer and Chapman’. Only the bankruptcy certificates survive for 1769 [PRO, B/6–A.11, 1769–71, p. 55] and not a fuller record, but a ‘Hallot’ bankruptcy is further noted in Bailey's List of Bankruptcies, 1773, p. 35 [GL] The quest continues for his will, and for more commissions, as enough evidence seems to be available to sketch in an identity separate from the ‘squire’ of Cannons.
G.B.
Hallowell, Edw., Coronation St, Bishop Wearmouth, Sunderland, Co. Durham, furniture broker and cm (1827). [D]
Hallowes, James, Foregate St, Chester, cm (1824). Admitted freeman on 19 October 1824. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hallowes, Thomas, Chester, cm and u (1831). Admitted freeman on 20 April 1831. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hallows, John, at ‘The Crown & Scepter’, Moorfields, London, u and sworn appraiser (c.1760). Trade card with Rococo embellishment states that he ‘Makes & Sells all Sorts of Standing Beds & Bedsteads. Feather Beds, Blankets, Quilts, Glasses, Chairs, Cabinet Work, Brasiery & Iron Work, & all other Sorts of Household Goods, both New & Old, at ye Cheapest Rates. NB. Goods Bought or Sold by Commission.’ [Leverhulme Coll., MMA, NY]
Hallows, John, Chester, cm and beer house (1811–40). Addresses given at 1 Foregate St, 1812, 1819 and 1840; and Claremont Walk, 1818, 1819 and 1826. A John Hallows was admitted freeman on 7 August 1811. [D; poll bks; Chester freemen rolls]
Hall(s)pike, Christopher, London, cm and u (c.1780–1827). Trading at 13 Wilderness Row, Goswell St, 1807–08; 10 Little Queen St, Holborn in 1822; and 25 St John Sq., 1826–27. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 5 November 1807 for £300; and on 12 March 1822 for £300, of which £30 accounted for a chest of tools at Seddons in Aldersgate St. Mahogany sideboard, said to have been made for John Barrow, c.1780, bears manuscript label inside drawer inscribed: ‘Chris Hallpike No 862’. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 441, ref. 809717; vol. 490, ref. 989822; Conn., LXVIII (1924), p. 35]
Hallpike, V., Settle, Yorks., cm (1798–1837). Two mahogany hall chairs, c.1800, at Skipton Museum are of circular back pattern and impressed under seat rail ‘V. HALLPIKE’. [D]
Halls, Edward, address unrecorded, cm (c.1770). App. to Edward John Elwick of Wakefield, Yorks., c.1770. [Furn. Hist., 1976]
Halls (or Halse), Richard, Ashburton, Devon, cm and auctioneer (1826–30). Trading at North St in 1830. Notices in The Alfred, 13 June 1826, and Exeter Flying Post, 13 July 1826, concerned his wife, Sarah's, appeal for and entitlement to benefit through the Act of Relief of Insolvent Debtors. [D]
Halls, William jnr, Norwich, cm (d. 1830). Will proved in 1830. [Norfolk Record Soc., index of wills]
Hallsall, Charles, 78 Stanley St, Liverpool, cm and broker (1821–23). [D]
Hallso, William, 11 Eaton St, Liverpool, cm (1821–27). [D]
Hallum & Pidcock, Nottingham, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. See Hallam & Pid(l)ock.
Halmarack, Richard, Castle St, Stone, Staffs., chairmaker (1822). [D]
Halmshaw, John, Upperthong, near Huddersfield, Yorks., joiner and cm (1822). [D]
Halmshaw, Joseph, Westgate, Dewsbury, Yorks., cm (1830). [D]
Halsall, Anthony, ‘Vest Bromedge’ (West Bromwich, Staffs. ?), carver (1774). [Bristol poll bk)
Halsall, Richard, Moorflat, St Helens, Lancs., joiner and cm (1828). [D]
Halsall, William, 5 Eaton St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Halse, James, High St, Oxford, u and cm (1808). A mahogany clothes press, c.1800 bearing a label inscribed: ‘Halse's UPHOLSTERY & CABINET MANUFACTORY High Street, Oxford. Appraiser & Auctioneer’ was sold at Christie's, 29 June 1978, lot 75. [D]
Halse, William, Truro, Cornwall, cm (1752–57). Took app. named Thomas Woolcock in 1752 for £12, and other apps in 1757 including William Bromley. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [S of G, app. index]
Halsey, John, St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, carver (1745–61). Took app. named John Walker in 1745 for £5. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. Discharge from Debtors’ Prison announced in London Gazette, 1761. [S of G, app. index]
Halsey, Thomas William, 11 Orange St, Canterbury, Kent, cm and u (1838). [D]
Halson, Charles jnr, address unrecorded, cm (1823). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 24 September 1823 for £400, of which £340 accounted for household goods in the warehouse of Messrs Goodman & Co., cm, 113 Aldersgate St, and £60 on musical instruments, prints and pictures, china and glass. [GL, Sun MS vol. 496, ref. 1008571]
Halstaff, John, 47 Museum St, Holborn, London, writing desk and dressing case maker (1829). [D]
Halstaff, William, 68 Margaret St, Cavendish Sq., London, dressing case manufacturer (1835–37). [D]
Halton, Richard, 35 Woodstock St, Liverpool, cm (1834). [D]
Ham, Archibald, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Ham, Elias, Exeter, Devon, u (1728). Took app. named Glanvill in 1728. [S of G, app. index]
Ham, John, Fore St, Marazion, Cornwall, cm (1824). [D]
Ham, John, Fore St, Padstow, Cornwall, cm (1824–30). [D]
Ham, Nicholas, address unrecorded, upholder (1722–29). Son of Richard Ham, tailor, of St Mary-le-Grand, Middlx. App. to John Underwood on 1 August 1722, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 6 August 1829. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hambidge & Halliday, High St, Stroud, Glos., cm and paper hanger (1830). [D]
Hambleton, —, at ‘The Talbot’, Long Lane, near West Smithfield, London, u (1724–30). Recorded in newspapers in partnership with John Howard, 1724–30. [Heal] See Howard & Hambleton and Joseph Hamilton.
Hambleton, —, see John Sherrott snr.
Hambleton & Son, Edward, Penzance, Cornwall, cm (1824–30). Trading at West St in 1823–24, and North Parade in 1830. [D]
Hambleton, Joseph, Kirkgate, Thirsk, Yorks., cm (1823). [D]
Hambley, Peter, London, u (?) (1715). Named in Lady Grisell Baillie's accounts at Mellerstain, Berwickshire, supplying ‘3 pices yellow Damask for window curtains’, costing £18; and ‘6 pices of Green Damask for hangins, chairs, & window curtains’, £36. [MS accounts, f. 367]
Hame, Edward, London, cm (1818). [Norwich poll bk]
Hamer, John, Coal St, Lime St, Liverpool, cm (1829). [D]
Hamersham, Thomas, 245 Borough, London, u (1800). [D]
Hames, Henry, 40 Barbican, London, broker and cm (1802). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 21 April 1802 for £500, utensils and stock accounting for £350. [GL, Sun MS vol. 424, ref. 730902]
Hamford, James, London, cm (1705/06). Supplied items to Samuel Tufnell of Middle Temple, London, receiving £16 10s on 27 November 1705 for ‘A Desk & foulding tables & teay table for My Masters use’; and £22 on 1 February 1705/06, for ‘2 peer Glass & 2 Chimney Glass for my Master use’. Both bills were receipted by John Etherington. [Essex RO, D/DTu, 276]
Hamilton, —, Whitechapel, London, u (1747). Named in newspapers in 1747. [Heal] Possibly William Hamilton.
Hamilton, David, 3 Burleigh SN [sic], Strand, London, cm (1808). [D]
Hamilton, Francis, London, upholder (1746–86). Recorded at 20 Smithfield, 1767–83, in partnership with Kirkham, 1773–83; and at West Smithfield, 1778–86. Son of Joseph Hamilton, draper of London. App. to his father on 26 March 1746, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by redemption on 7 May 1761. Took apps named John Milsom, 1761–68; John Kirkham until 1772; and John Green in 1777. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hamilton, George, address unrecorded, carver and gilder (1774). Announced in The Virginia Gazette, 28 July 1774 that he was ‘just from Britain’, and advertised his business from the Edward Dickinson shop, Williamsburg.
Hamilton, Jacobus, Preston, Lancs., u (1722) [Preston Guild record of burgesses] Father of Willus Hamilton, u.
Hamilton, John, Lancaster, chairmaker (1823–24). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hamilton, John, High Wycombe, Bucks., u (b. c. 1801–41). Daughters bapt. in 1823 and 1829. Aged 40 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Hamilton, Joseph, Long Lane, West Smithfield, London, upholder (1742). Announced in Daily Advertiser, 2 November 1742, that he was selling catalogues for the sale of stock in trade and household goods of John Howard, who had run a carpet and upholstery warehouse in the same street.
Hamilton, R. T., 2 Cullum St, Fenchurch St, London, cm and u (1809–19). [D]
Hamilton, R., London, u (1820–37). Trading at 126 Fenchurch St, 1820–25, and 127 Houndsditch in 1837. [D]
Hamilton, Robert, Brewer St, London, cm (1774). [Poll bk]
Hamilton, Thomas, New Bond St, London, upholder (1736). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., October 1736.
Hamilton, Thomas, 7 Lower Marsh, Lambeth, London, cm etc. (1820). [D]
Hamilton, W., 76 Wardour St, London, upholder (1794). Named in newspapers in 1794. [Heal]
Hamilton, William, 54 Whitechapel, London, upholder and undertaker (1759–1811). Recorded also at no. 55 in 1808. Trading as William & Son, 1760–72; and as Hamilton & Cruffall (or Creessall), 1782–83. William alone is named in newspapers in 1790, and in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D; Heal]
Hamilton, William, High St, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumb., u and cm (1827–34). [D]
Hamilton, Willus, Preston, Lancs., u (1722). Son of Jacobus Hamilton, u. [Preston Guild record of burgesses]
Hamilton & Mogany, High St, Lambeth, London, cm (1825). [D]
Hamlin, John, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hamlin, Thomas, Cuckfield, Sussex, cooper, turner and chairmaker (1823). [D]
Hamm, Henry, Norwich, cm (1797–99). [D; poll bks]
Hammersley, G., 22 Walcot St, Bath, Som., cm (1826). [D]
Hammersley, Joseph T., 78 Bishopsgate Without, London, cm (1808–11). [D]
Hammersley, Joseph, 55 Chamber St, Leman St, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hammersley, William, Laurence Lane, Boston, Lincs., chairmaker and turner (1835). [D]
Hammerton, George, Brighouse, Yorks., cm (1830). [D]
Hammeth, Robert, Fore St, Kingsbridge, Devon, cm (1830). [D]
Hammett, James, West Ham, London, cm (1809–11). [D]
Hammond, —, address unrecorded, frame maker (1732). Received £3 15s 6d from Sir Richard Hoare on 8 November 1732. [Hoare's Bank, Fleet St, private accounts] Probably:
Hammond, Christopher, Phoenix Ct, Long Acre, London, frame maker and gilder (1732). Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Hammond, David Henry, 2 Jane St, Commercial Rd East, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hammond, Edward, 18 Christopher Sq., Long Alley, Moorfields, London, chair and sofa maker (1824–28). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 3 May 1824 for £500 of which £150 accounted for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 497, ref. 1016753]
Hammond, George, London and Canterbury, Kent, u (1790–1807). Recorded at Oxford St, London in 1790, Butter Mkt, Canterbury in 1794, and Burgate St, Canterbury, 1805–07. [D; poll bks]
Hammond, George, 7 Broad St, Golden Sq., London, cm etc. (1820). [D]
Hammond, H., 1 Gt Warner St, Clerkenwell, London, firescreen maker (1816–19). [D]
Hammond, H., 139 High St, Ramsgate, Kent, cm (1838). [D]
Hammond, Henry, 5 Cranbourn Alley, Margate, Kent, cm (1826–34). [D]
Hammond, Henry, Liverpool, ship-carver (1831). Notice in Liverpool Mercury, 26 August 1831, that he was one of the survivors from the wreck of the steamer Rothsay Castle, and had been ‘employed in executing some ornaments in the vessel, & worked during the voyage to save time.’ See John & Henry and Joseph Hammond.
Hammond, John, at ‘The Cabinet & Crown’, Broker's Row, Lower Moorfields, London, broker and upholder (1779). Bill head dated 28 September 1779 continues: ‘Buys and Sells all Sorts of HOUSEHOLD GOODS, both Second hand and New.’ [A. Scott Coll., Basingstoke]
Hammond, John, Liverpool, carver (1810–29). Addresses given at 24 Stanhope St in 1810 and 90 Lime Kiln Lane in 1829. [D]
Hammond, John & Henry, 47 Trentham St, Liverpool, shipcarvers and gilders (1837). [D] See Henry Hammond.
Hammond, Joseph, 17 Trentham St, Liverpool, ship-carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Hammond, Mary, 24 Worcester St, Birmingham, cm (1835). [D]
Hammond, Richard, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics., cm (1791). [D]
Hammon(d), Richard, Ashford, Kent, cm and u (1793–1824). Polled at Canterbury in 1796. [D]
Hammond, Richard, 4 Blacklion Yd, Whitechapel, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hammond, William, Nottingham, u (1779). [Nottingham burgess list]
Hammond, William, 63 or 73 North St, Brighton, Sussex, cm (1822–23). [D]
Hammond, William, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, cm and u (1830–39). Trading at 41 Guildhall St in 1830 and St Andrew St in 1839. [D]
Hammond, William, 25 Worcester St, Birmingham, cm, u, chairmaker and broker (1828–30). [D]
Hammond, William, 141 High St, Camden Town, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hamnett, Thomas, East Ham, London, cm (1808). [D]
Hampshaw, & Thomas, Skelmanthorpe, Yorks., joiners and cm (1834). [D]
Hampshire, George, Deptford, London, cm (1791–93). [D]
Hampshire, James, Lady Bridge, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hampshire, Jonas & Brother, Holmfirth, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hampson, Henry, Clayton St, Liverpool, cm (1811–14). Recorded at no. 24 in 1811 and no. 34, 1813–14. [D]
Hampson, James, Manchester, cm (1788–1825). Trading at 14 Back Red Bank, 1788–1813, and Johnson St, Ducie Bridge in 1825. [D] See Hampson & Heaton.
Hampson, Thomas, Back Red Bank, Manchester, cm (1794–1811). Trading at no. 30 in 1794; no. 5 in 1804; and no. 14 in 1811. [D]
Hampson & Heaton, Johns(t)on St, Ducie Bridge (or Cheetham), Manchester, cm (1828–40). Recorded at no. 28, 1829–33. [D] See James Hampson.
Hampton, John, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hampton, John, Cirencester, Glos., cm (1831–38). Children born in 1831, 1834 and 1838. [PR]
Hampton, John, 6 Hanover Pl., Regent's Park, London, carver and gilder (1835–39). [D]
Hampton, William, 18 Mount St, Lambeth, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hamshaw, William, Market Harborough, Leics., cm (1791). [D]
Hamson, James, Macclesfield, Cheshire, cm (1790–1808). [D]
Hanbury, John, London, u (1757). Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Hancock, —, Weymouth, Dorset, u (1820). Advertised catalogues for sale of Gloucester Lodge, in Exeter Flying Post, 6 July 1820. Possibly Anthony or J. & W. B. Hancock.
Hancock, —, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, amateur cm (1826). In July 1826 ‘Mr. Hancock received unsolicited payment of £105 for a beautiful cabinet of his own manufacture intended as a present to His Majesty and delivered to Carlton House.’ [George IV&Apos;s accounts, Windsor Royal Archives, RA 25414]
Hancock, Anthony, 30 St Mary St, Weymouth, Dorset, cm and u (1823). John Hancock is listed at the same address as an auctioneer. [D] See Hancock, —, Hancock & Son and J. & W. B. Hancock.
Hancock, Colebron, Hedge Lane, Charing Cross (later called Whitcomb St), London, glass cutter (1775). J. T. Smith in Nollekens and His Times noted that the premises of William Wilton were later occupied by a glass manufacturer of the name of Hancock, ‘for whom Doctor Johnson wrote a handbill’. He was a cutter of glass other than looking-glass, and is perhaps the Col. Hancock who supplied ‘2 pr. curious girandoles for holding two lights each’, costing £31 10s, to Croome Court, Worcs. on 13 March 1775. [Wills, Looking-Glasses; V&A archives]
Hancock, David, 33 Willow St, Finsbury Sq., London, chairmaker (1808). [D]
Hancock, J., 2 New St, Cloth Fair, London, upholder and blind maker (1808). [D]
Hancock, J. & W. B., 62 St Thomas St, Weymouth, Dorset, cm and u (1840). [D] See Hancock, —, Anthony Hancock and Hancock & Son.
Hancock, James, Marlborough, Wilts., cm and u (1779–98). Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1779 for £200, utensils and stock accounting for £155; and in 1791 for £400 on three tenements and a brewhouse. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 273, p. 39; vol. 376, p. 243]
Hancock, James, 1 Christopher's Ct, London, cm (1784). [Poll bk]
Hancock, James, 9 Princess St, Bradshawgate, Bolton, Lancs., cm (1818). [D]
Hancock, John, Bristol, carver (1784–1800). Recorded in Eugean St, 1795–1800. [D; poll bk]
Hancock, John, 29 Longworth St, Manchester, cm (1808–09). [D]
Hancock, John, Boutport St, Barnstaple, Devon cm and u (1823–38). [D]
Hancock, John, 9 Bradford St, Birmingham, cabinet, dressing case and portable desk makers (1830). [D]
Hancock, T., Cumberland St, Plymouth Dock, Devon, carver and gilder (1814). [D]
Hancock, Thomas, Tetbury, Glos., upholder (1778–98). Insured his house for £300 in 1778. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 264, p. 285]
Hancock, Thomas, 4 Back Irwell St, Manchester, cm (1808–09). [D]
Hancock, Thomas, Gloster St, Cirencester, Glos., carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hancock & Co., London, glass and chandelier manufacturers (1820–35). Supplied items to Chatsworth, Derbs., between 1820 and 1835, totalling £913 10s 5d. Named in the Chiswick household accounts receiving £483 4s 6d for ‘Branches for Grace's apartments’. [Chatsworth furnishing accounts; Chiswick accounts, cl66, vol. A]
Hancock & Rixon, address unrecorded, lamp lustre makers (1832–38). By 31 March 1838 trading as Hancock, Rixon & Dant. Loaned items to Stud House, Hampton Court, including lamps, ormolu girandoles, pedestals, blue glass girandoles and candlesticks. On 29 June 1833 supplied ‘One 4-light gold coloured antique lamp’, costing £12, to St James's. On 31 December 1835 the firm was paid £998 18s 9d, including £640 11s 8d for ‘4 large chandeliers for the Grand Reception Rms — Windsor’; for ‘fitting & fixing metalwork … & Gold Colouring the Same’; and £92 7s 1d for ‘New Glass Work cutting etc.’. On 30 June 1840 Hancock, Rixon & Dant received £5 17s for ‘2 very thick handsome Maplewood Stands French Polished & covered w. silk velvet’. [PRO, LC11/77; 11/80; Royal Windsor account bks G–H]
Hancock & Son, 34 St Mary St, Weymouth, Dorset, cm and u (1830). [D] See Anthony, and J. & W. B. Hancock.
Hancock & Thomas, Gloster St, Cirencester, Glos., carvers and gilders (1839–40). [D]
Hancox, James, Ashted Row, Birmingham, cm, u and broker (1828–30). [D]
Hancox, James, Henley St, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks., cm (1835). [D]
Hancox, Nicholas, Belton St, opposite Brownlow St, Long Acre, London, glass grinder (1783–90). ‘Hancox & Co, lookingglass men’ were owed the sum of £2,337 13s 2d for work at, and goods supplied to, Carlton House for the Prince of Wales between 1783–86. By 1790 he was recorded as being in business at Castle St, Long Acre. [Wills, Looking-Glasses] See Hancox & Co.
Hancox & Ashlin, London, looking-glass makers. On 26 December 1785 supplied to Chatsworth, Derbs., ‘2 plates best British Manufacture’ at £76 54s; ‘2 top plates’, £33 5s 4d; and blankets ‘to pack the large plates that broke’. [Chatsworth papers, 81] Possibly:
Hancox & Co., Belton St, Long Acre, London, glass-grinders and carvers (1783–87). [D] See Nicholas Hancox.
Hand, —, address unrecorded, u (1822–24). Received payments for unspecified work at Dunham Massey, Cheshire, on 31 December 1822 for £242 0s 10d; and on 9 February 1824 for £75. [John Rylands Lib., Manchester Univ., Dunham Massey papers]
Hand, Charles, 47 Queen St, Manchester, cm (1822). [D]
Hand, Daniel, Crispin St, Northampton, cm (1830). [D]
Hand, John, Manchester, cm (1800–17). Addresses given at New Jerusalem Pl. in 1800, 55 Tickle St in 1813, and 13 Byrom St in 1817. [D]
Hand, John, Liverpool, u and cm (1805–39). Recorded at 11 New Scotland Rd in 1805; 20 Davies St in 1807; 46 Church St in 1810; 47 Church St in 1811; no. 50, 1813–14; no. 47 in 1818; no. 53, 1821–23; 89 Bold St, 1824–27; no. 93 in 1829; no. 109 in 1834; no. 97 in 1835; no. 105 in 1837; no. 32 and also 27 Lord Nelson St in 1839. Trading as John & Son from 1834–39. Carried out work at Liverpool Town Hall, receiving £443 15s 9d on 30 June 1819; £260 7s on 7 February 1820; and £60 7s on 14 June 1823. [D; Furn. Hist., 1970]
Hand, Joseph, 68 Bridge St, Manchester, cm (1836–40). [D]
Hand, Stephen, 35 Stafford St, Liverpool, u and cm (1839). [D]
Hand, Thomas, Oakham, Rutland, joiner and turner (1721–39). App. to Thomas Thickpenny of Leicester in 1721, and admitted freeman in 1731. Took app. named Thomas Tipler in 1739. [Leicester freemen rolls]
Hand, Thomas, Manchester, cm (1817–36). Trading at 49 Quay St in 1817; no. 47, 1818–19; and 12 Back St (or South) Parade in 1836. [D]
Hand, Uriah, 31 Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., chairmaker (1836–39). [D]
Hand, Uriel, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., chairmaker (1818–39). Recorded at Shoreditch in 1818 and 11 Bath St, 1839. [D]
Hand, William, Iron Mkt, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., chairmaker (1822). [D]
Handcock, George, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Handcock, James, Borough Walls, Bath, Som., cm (1793). [D]
Handford, James, Swallow St, St James's, London, cm (1784). [Bristol poll bk]
Handford, James, 7 Strand, London, manufacturer of writing desks, dressing cases etc. (1837). [D] See Thomas Handford.
Handford, John, Exeter, Devon, cm (1824–38). Recorded at South St in 1824; St Thomas in 1828; and Stepcote Hill in 1838. Daughter Elizabeth bapt. at St Mary Major on 15 February 1824, and son James at St George on 7 October 1838. Notice in Exeter Flying Post, 11 September 1828 stated that John Handford had been treated at the Devon and Exeter Hospital for a viper bite. The three-foot long viper was killed between Christow and Canonteign, where Handford had been gathering blackberries. [PR (bapt.)]
Handford, Samuel, Manchester, cm (1825–40). Addresses given at 1 Bakehouse Ct, Tickle St in 1825; Thomas St in 1834; 274 Deansgate, 1836–38; and 15 Thomas (or Tonman) St in 1840. [D]
Handford, T., 84 St James St, London, writing desk manufacturer (c. 1800). Trade card reads: ‘Manufacturer of Copying Machines, Writing Desks and all kinds of Ladies and Gentleman's PORTABLE CASES’. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gardener Coll.] Probably:
Handford, T., 94 Strand, London, writing desk manufacturer (1804–c.1840). Recorded as Handford & Co. in 1804. Brass bound portable mahogany writing desk, c. 1830–40, recorded, bearing trade label inside which reads: ‘Handford's Improved Writing Desks. T. HANDFORD, No. 94 Strand, MANUFACTURER of Copying Machines, Writing Desks and all kinds of Ladies & Gentlemen's PORTABLE CASES for every purpose Completed & adapted for travelling in any part of the World & hellip; Old Desks are repaired or taken in Exchange. Orders for the East or West Indies punctually executed and Country Dealers supplied on the most reasonable terms.’ Label also found inside fine quality lap desk, c.1810, veneered in partridge wood crossbanded in kingwood with brass lines.
Handford, Thomas, Strand, London, patent cork trunk maker and patentee of the waterproof travelling trunk edged with brass (1820–37). Recorded at no. 7 in 1820, and no. 6 in 1837. [D]
Handford, William, London, cm (1835). [D]
Handisyde, Henry, 14 Johns Mews, Little James St, Bedford Row, London, cm (1839–40). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1840. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 574, ref. 1331484]
Handisyde (or Handasyde, Handesyde, Handalyde or Handyside), Thomas, London, u, cm, appraiser and undertaker (1803–53). Addresses given at 10 (Upper) King St, Bloomsbury Sq., 1807–21; and 55 Lambs Conduit St, Holborn, 1823–53. Trading as Handasyde & Mayo in 1809; and as Thomas Handyside & Son, 1809–53. [D] Trade card gives King St address. [Landauer Coll., MMA, NY] Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 17 August 1807 for £850 of which £400 accounted for utensils and stock; on 27 July 1808 for £1,800, £500 on stock and utensils; and another policy in 1840. [GL, Sun MS vol. 441, ref. 806413; vol. 444, ref. 819597; ref. 5141331483] Ledgers of Thomas & Son for 1809–34 and 1842–53 survive. [GL, MS 4597 (Bn. 36:F); 10883/1; 18882/2]
Handley, Henry snr, Willan's Yd, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1814–40). Trading also at Swin(e)gate, 1814–18, and Mill Hill in 1817–28. [D]
Handley, Henry jnr, Willan's Yd, Mill Hill, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Handley, John, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1822–40). Addresses given at 15 Hope St in 1822; Harrison St in 1826; 18 North St, 1828–37; and 16 Hope St in 1839. [D] See William Handley.
Handley, Thomas, Conisbrough, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Handley, William, Hope St, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1814–37). Recorded at no. 2, 1814–20; then either nos 70 or 71. [D] See John Handley.
Hands, Benjamin, Bridewell Lane, Bristol, cabinet carver (1831). [D]
Hands, Humphrey, Warwick, joiner (1723–43). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 31 December 1723 for £300, £200 accounting for goods in his house. Probably the craftsman who supplied furniture to Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., between 1740–43, comprising several mahogany tables, and in February 1741 ‘frames with 2 Glasses for prints one for the Master of the Roles and one for Mr. Smith Gilt edges’, costing 6s; and ‘One Gilt frame for Adm. Vernon and a frame for port[rait] a bell’, 6s. [GL, Sun MS vol. 15, p. 349; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5]
Hands, Jonathan, Bristol, cm (1805–26). Trading at 2 Nelson St in 1805; as Hands & Barnard in Nelson St, 1806; as J.H. in 1810; at Greville St, 1812–17; and Harford St, 1819–26. [D]
Hands, Thomas, Micklegate, York, cm, u, appraiser, auctioneer and undertaker (1828–38). Trading at no. 14, 1828–30; and no. 85, 1834–38. Son of Richard Hands, combmaker; admitted freeman in 1819. Submitted bill totalling £12 13s 9d to the trustees of St Saviour's Chapel in August 1834 for ‘extending Gallery across the Chapel, laying an inclined floor in large Pew below, making Benches for Gallery and Pew, widening the seats around the alter Table and covering with matting.’ [D; York freemen rolls]
Hands & Jenkins, 34 Loveday St, Birmingham, manufacturer of commode handles, picture frames and looking-glasses (1803). [D]
Handscombe, Isaac, Dunstable St, Ampthill, Beds., u (1839). [D]
Handsen, John, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Handsombody, E. & L., Bristol, u (1836–40). Trading at Brandon Hill Steep, 1836–37, and 15 College St, 1838–40. [D] See J. & L. Handsombody.
Handsombody, Frederick, Bristol, cm (1829–40). Trading at 5 Lower Berkeley Pl., 1829–37, and 10 Upper Portland Pl., Clifton, 1838–40. [D]
Handsombody, J. & L., Brandon Hill Steep, Bristol, u (1835). [D] See E. & L. Handsombody.
Handy, William, Worcester, cm and auctioneer (1788–1812). Recorded at ‘The George’, Tything in 1788 also as an innkeeper, and at 13 Foregate St in 1794. Former app., John Nayers, admitted freeman on 13 October 1812. [D; Worcester freemen rolls]
Hanebuth, Frederick & Co., 27 Lamb St, Southwark, London, cm and u (1820–29). [D] Possibly Frederick Haniebuth.
Hanford, Francis, Ludgate Hill, Fleet Ditch, London, turner (1703–17). Took out Hand in Hand Insurance policies on 26 April 1703 and 5 June 1717 for £250 on his house. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 2, p. 458; vol. 17, p. 138]
Hanford, James, London, cm (1710–11). Trading at the ‘Blew Boar’, Cornhill in 1710. Submitted bills to Sir Gilbert Heathcote on 4 May 1710 for ‘one no. 12 put in a Frame & Two New Screnes’, costing 7s; and on 17 May for ‘One Combox made up & a Powder Box Mended’, 12s. The bill was receipted on 19 September 1810 by Richard Nixon. On 22 November 1710 Hanford supplied eight glass sconces for a total of £4 15s, received on 30 November by Nixon. On 7 July 1711 his bill listed two japan frames, ‘One combox japand’, mending a frame, and ‘rounding ye wainscot table edg.’ Bill was receipted on 1 August 1711. [Lincoln RO, 2 ANC 12/D/5]
Haniebuth, Frederick, court on the east side of Old George St, Gt Suffolk St, Southwark, London, cm (1806). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 4 November 1806 for £400 of which £345 accounted for stock, utensils and goods in trust in workshop and yard. [GL, Sun MS vol. 438, ref. 795784] Possibly Frederick Hanebuth.
Hanion, Henry, Norwich, cm (1796). [Poll bk]
Hankens, James, Liverpool, upholder (1747). [Chester poll bk]
Hankey, Peter, Eastgate St, Chester, u (1820). Admitted freeman on 18 April 1820. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hankey, Robert, Chester, cm (1750–84). Address given in Foregate St, 1784. Son of Sarah Hankey, widow of Chester; app. to Thomas Astle, cm, for seven years on 2 February 1750. Admitted freeman on 3 April 1784. [Chester app. indentures, freemen rolls and poll bk]
Hankin, Thomas, at ‘The Cannon’, Long Lane, Aldgate, London, u (1715). Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 22 January 1715. [GL, Sun MS vol. 4, p. 156]
Hankins, William, Worcester, upholder (1771). App. to Richard Meredith, upholder; admitted freeman on 11 November 1771. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hankins, William, 33 Brewer St, Golden Sq., London, undertaker and upholder (1817). [D]
Hankinson, V. J., London (?). In 1773 supplied Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End, Essex, with ‘one Field Bedstead & check furniture’, costing £2 15s; and ‘one feather bed bolster & pillow’, £3 5s. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A31/2]
Hanks, John, Bristol, upholder (1784). [Poll bk]
Hanley, John, 41 Preston St, Liverpool, wood and ivory turner (1835). [D]
Hanley, Peter, Friar St, Worcester, cm, u and register office for hiring servants (1828). [D]
Hanley, Stinsil, 21 Bolton St, Copperas Hill, Liverpool, cm (1835). [D]
Han(n), Elias, Exeter, Devon, u (1715–23). Admitted freeman in 1715. Took app. named Bamfield in 1721. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 May 1723 for goods and merchandise in his house. [Exeter freemen rolls; S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 15, ref. 26231]
Hann, Henry, London, cm (1830). [Norwich poll bk]
Hann, Peter, St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1712/13). Took app. on 4 March 1712/13. [PRO, app. reg.]
Hannaford, W. F., Kingsbridge, Devon, cm and u (1807–d.1815). Advertised in Exeter Flying Post, 30 April 1807, for two or three journeymen, stating ‘piece work given if required’; and on 19 July 1810 for an app. and a journeyman. Death by consumption reported on 23 March 1815.
Hannah, George, Manor St, Clapham, London, u (1839). [D]
Hannah, John, Tuxford, Notts., joiner and cm (1822–32). Trading at Eldon St in 1832. [D]
Hannah, William, 35 Dance St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Hanne, J., 5 Walks, Bath, Som., auctioneer, upholder and appraiser (1819). [D]
Hannibal, John, Lancaster (1818–21). Named in the Gillow records in 1818 and 1821. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hanns, George, Scotland Rd, Liverpool, cm (1837–39). Recorded at no. 203 in 1837 and 200 in 1839. [D]
Hannys, John, Liverpool, cm (1757). Admitted freeman on 17 October 1757. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hansan, George, address unrecorded. In 1772 supplied nine picture frames costing £24 2s 2d to Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent. [Kent RO, Mersham accounts]
Hanser, John, 19 Williamson St, Church St, Liverpool, u (1804). [D]
Hansford, John, St Cuthbert St, Wells, Som., cm and u (1839). [D]
Hansford, William, George St, Ryde, Isle of Wight, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hanshaw, Samuel, Nohill St, London, chairmaker (1774). [Poll bk]
Hansom, Henry, Tanners Row, York, joiner, funeral furnisher, carpenter, housebuilder and cm (1823). [D]
Hansom, Richard, 36 Micklegate, York, joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hanson, —, 19 Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell, London, carver and gilder (1809–11). [D]
Hanson, —, John St, London. Named in Loudon's Encyclopaedia, 1833 (pp. 1039 and 1101) as specialising in making from old fragments ‘curious specimens’ of antiquarian oak furniture.
Hanson, Abram, Liverpool, cm and victualler (1813–24). Addresses given at 2 New Bird St with cabinet warehouse at no. 5 in 1813, and 2 Brown Pl., Copperas Hill, in 1824. [D]
Hanson, Christopher, Bingley, Yorks., cm and u (1822–37). Trading at Main St in 1837. [D]
Hanson, Herbert, 24 Hanover St, Manchester, cm (1836). [D]
Hanson, John, Cable St, Liverpool, cm (d.1767). Death reported in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 27 March 1767.
Hanson, John, Huddersfield, Yorks., cm (1803–34). Trading at Castle St in 1814; New St, 1818–20; High St, 1822; and New St, 1828–29. Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. [D]
Hanson, John jnr, 34 New St, Huddersfield, Yorks., cm, u and paper hanger (1830–37). [D]
Hanson, John, Slisbridge Lane, Bradford, Yorks., cm (1837). [D]
Hanson, Samuel, 16 John St, Oxford St, London, cm and u (1827–39). In 1833 he charged £34 16s to Thomas Whitmore of Apley Park, Salop, for ‘a Mahogany Stand for Parrot Cage’, ‘two carved Pier Tables’, a washstand, and packing and carriage to Paddington. [D; Essex RO, D/D Wt A3]
Hanson, Samuel, 33 Prince's St, Leicester Sq., Soho, London, cm and u (1822–27). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 7 February 1822 for £300 on household goods in warehouses; on 5 February 1823 for £1,400, £1,050 on utensils and stock; and on 12 February 1824 for £1,550, £1,200 on stock and utensils in his house, workshops communicating and workshop in George Yd nearby. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 493, ref. 989021; vol. 498, ref. 1001049; vol. 499, ref. 1012916]
Hanson, William, address unrecorded, carpenter (1759). Put together the gilded State Bed designed by Borra for Stowe, Bucks., and now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool. [V&A archives]
Hanson & Parsons, Broad Weir, Bristol, cm (1799–1800). [D]
Hanway & Co., address unrecorded. Provided furniture and mantlepiece for the Board Room of the Marine Society, London, c.1775. [Huntington Lib., California, Stowe MS, T3/LL/3/2]
Hanwell, John, Oxford, cm (1768). [Poll bk; Survey of Oxford]
Happerton, —, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Happ(e)y, William, 32 Canning St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). [D]
Haradge, —, address unrecorded, frame maker (1709). Named in the accounts for Felbrigg, Norfolk, in January 1709 receiving £6; in July, £4 18s; and in August, £6 12s. [Norfolk RO, Felbrigg papers, WKC 6/23, index of payments]
Harald, James, Coventry, Warks., joiner and cm (1720). Took app. named More in 1720. [S of G, app. index]
Harbidge, Ann, 18 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London, chest maker and undertaker (1801). [D]
Harbidge (or Harbridge), John, 18 Finch Lane, Cornhill, London, chest maker and undertaker (1788–1804). [D]
Harbron, James, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–29). [D]
Harbron, John, 8 Junction Dock Walls (or St), Hull, Yorks., cm and broker (1837–40). [D]
Hardcastle, Aaron, Fewston, Harrogate, Yorks., cm and joiner (b.1724–d.1755). His tombstone in St Lawrence's Parish Church, Fewston, bears the inscription: ‘Here Lyeth the body of Aaron, son of Aaron Hardcastle of Fewston, cabinet maker and joyner, who departed this life April ye 22nd 1755 in full hope of a happy resurrection, aged 31 years…’.
Hardcastle, John, York, cm (1814). Son of Knottingly Hardcastle; app. to Hugh Rusby, cm, on 31 December 1814. [York app. reg.]
Hardcastle, Robert, ‘on the sunny side of Westminster Bridge’, London, carver in wood (1763). [D]
Hardcastle, Thomas, 15 Seahook Pl., White Lion St, Pentonville, London, clock case maker (1821). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 22 March 1821 for £125 of which £25 accounted for his tools and tool chest in a workshop behind 58 Red Lion St, Clerkenwell. [GL, Sun MS vol. 485, ref. 978549]
Hardcastle, William, Boroughbridge, Yorks., joiner and cm (1828–34). [D]
Harden, —, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Harden, Benjamin, 36 Coppice Row, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Harden, C., 14 Little St Thomas Apostle and 33 Bread St, London, japan dressing case manufacturer (1819–25). [D]
Harden, G. B., Queen St and/or St Ann's, Manchester, u and cm (1810–11). Submitted bill to Sir John Leicester of Tabley House, Cheshire, on 12 November 1810, totalling £23 8s 6d and paid on 9 May 1811. Bill listed ‘2 Bamboo bedsteps covered in Brussels Carpet’, a hearth rug, mahogany table, looking-glass and three bamboo wash tables. [Chester RO, Tabley House vouchers]
Harden, John, Drury Lane, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1727). Insured goods and stock in trade in his house for £400 on 29 December 1727. [GL, Sun MS vol. 25, p. 440]
Harden, John, Duck (or Dark) Lane, Bilston, Staffs., cm (1818– 22). [D]
Hardern, James, Liverpool, chairmaker (1766–81). Addresses given at 150 Dale St, 1766–69, 1 Temple St in 1772, and recorded as ‘Gent.’ at 3 Richmond St in 1781. [D]
Hardet, Andrew, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hardie, John, 48 Market Pl., Whitehaven, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1828–34). [D]
Hardie, Robert, Moore St, London, gilder (1784). [Poll bk]
Hardie, Thomas, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Harding, Abraham, 46 Marsham St, Westminster, London, carver and gilder (1809–11). [D]
Harding, C., 1 Long Lane, Smithfield, London, japan dressing case manufacturers (1802). [D]
Harding, Charles, 2 Wardour St, Soho, London, chair and sofa manufacturer (1826–35). [D]
Harding, Charles, Exeter, Devon, cm (1836–40). Recorded in Exeter Pocket Journal at Palace St, 1836–38, and South St, 1839–40.
Harding, George, Bilston, Staffs., cm and u (1828–38). Recorded at Temple St, Newtown in 1828 and Oxford St, 1833–38. [D]
Harding, J., London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harding, J. M., Cross St, Barnstaple, Devon, carver and gilder (1838). [D] See John Harding.
Harding, James, Mill St, Loughborough, Leics., cm (1835–40). [D]
Harding, John, Haymarket, London, upholder (1747–49). Polled at Westminster in 1747 and named in newspapers in 1749. [Heal]
Harding, John, Pipewellgate, Gateshead, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1811). [D]
Harding, John, Cross St, Barnstaple, Devon, carver and gilder (1823–24). [D] See J. M. Harding.
Harding, John, Duck Lane, Bilston, Staffs., cm (1833). [D]
Harding, Jonathan, Redcliff Ct, St Luke's, London, cm (1784). [Bristol poll bk]
Hardin(g), Joseph, West Wycombe, Bucks, chairmaker (b.c. 1796–1841). Aged 45 at the time of the 1841 Census. [D]
Harding, Richard, Broad St, Carnaby Mkt, London, carver (1775). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1775 for £400 of which £20 accounted for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 239, p. 313]
Harding, Richard, Berwick St, Soho, London, carver and gilder to the King (1789–93). Trade card, 1791, gives address at no. 7, and reads ‘Carver and Gilder to Her Majesty’. [D; Heal]
Harding, Richard, 24 Little Moorfields, London, carver and picture frame maker (1824). Insured his household goods for £100 on 21 January 1824. [GL, Sun MS vol. 495, ref. 1012765]
Harding, Robert, address unrecorded. On 13 August 1784 received £3 2s 6d for a picture frame and case, possibly for a Gainsborough portrait, supplied to Hon. H. Fane. [Lincoln RO, Fane 7/1]
Harding, Samuel, 20 Noble St, Falcon Sq., London, carver and gilder (1817–25). [D]
Harding, Thomas, 13 Cranbourne St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1832). [D]
Harding, William, Lee's Yd, Spear St, Manchester, cm (1817). [D]
Harding, William & Son, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker and shopkeeper (1827–38). Daughters bapt. in 1827, 1831, 1833 and 1828; son in 1835. [PR (bapt.)]
Harding & Son, 70 Fore St, Cripplegate, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hardingham, Nicholas, Norwich and London, chairmaker and cm (1783–1830). App. to James Parot, chairmaker; admitted freeman of Norwich on 21 September 1783. Polled at Norwich, of London, 1786–1807; and of Norwich in 1830. [Norwich freemen reg. and poll bks]
Hardisty, John, Albion St, Halifax, Yorks., cm (1822–30). Recorded also at Carrier St in 1830. [D]
Hardman, —, address unrecorded. Between 1737 and 1744 supplied items to Holkham Hall, Norfolk: in 1737 a coffee table, six chairs and three looking-glasses, costing £5 11s; in 1742 four bed ticks, bolsters, two quilts and six blankets, £7 19s; in 1742–43, check chair cases; in 1743 three bed ticks, bolsters and quilts, £4 19s; and in 1744 a dressing glass, £1 1s. [V&A archives] Possibly John Hardman.
Hardman, —, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records in 1818 working on a bookcase and a wardrobe. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/100, pp. 2082 and 2094]
Hardman, Benjamin, 14 Wood St, Salford, Lancs., joiner and cm (1804–08). [D]
Hardman, Benjamin, Swan Ct, Manchester, carver and gilder (1836). [D]
Hardman, John, Drury Lane, London, upholder (1749–54). Polled at Westminster in 1749. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [Poll bks]
Hardman, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1827–39). Addresses given at 2 Roscoe St in 1827; 79 Lime St in 1829; 15 Harford St in 1835; and 34 Renshaw St in 1839. [D]
Hardman, Robert, Liverpool, cm (1830–34). Trading at 35 Peter St in 1830, when admitted freeman on 15 November as son of James Hardman, shipwright. Marriage to Miss Mary Edge of Liverpool on 29 September 1834 at St Oswald's reported in Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales, 30 September. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Hardman, Samuel, 123 Rasbottom St, Stalybridge, Lancs., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hardman, Thomas, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1826–34). Recorded at 82 Gloucester St in 1834. App. to William Cashin in 1826. [D; Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Hardman, William, 17 Union St, Manchester, cm (1840). [D]
Hards, Thomas, Lichfield St, Tamworth, Staffs., cm and u (1835). [D]
Hardwick, Asty, King's Lynn, Norfolk, u (1755). Took app. named Chadwick in 1755. [S of G, app. index] See Asty Harwick.
Hardwick, Richard, 16 Upper Newington, Liverpool, cm (1837). [D]
Hardwick, Robert, Liverpool, cm and joiner (1780–96). Addresses given at 33 Thomas St in 1781; 11 Ranelagh St and 1 Cases St, 1790–94; with cabinet shop at 12 Ranelagh St in 1794. Admitted freeman by birth as son of Joseph Hardwick in September 1780. Former app., John Kendall, petitioned freedom in 1796. [D; Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Hardwick, Thomas, Leeds, Yorks., u (1772–78). ‘Hardwick’ submitted a bill to Harewood House, Yorks, on 8 January 1772 for upholstery costing £7 8s 8d; and Thomas Hardwick of Leeds, on 24 December 1778 for canvas and curled hair. [Leeds archives dept, Harewood MS 491, folios 103 and 181]
Hardwick, William, Well St, London, cm (1790). [Lincoln poll bk]
Hardwick & Waddy, 30 Park Row, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1837). [D]
Hardy, C., Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1827–32. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/103, p. 3917]
Hardy, Charles, York, turner, fancy case maker and cm (1824– 40). Trading at 6 Coney St, 1838–40. Son of John Hardy, turner and cm; app. to his father on 7 December 1824. [D; York app. reg.]
Hardy, David, Pocklington, Yorks., cm (1828–34). Trading at Silver St, 1828–30, and Waterloo Buildings, 1831–34. [D]
Hardy, Edmund, Russell Ct, London, cm (1749). [Poll bk]
Hardy, Edward, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1749). [Poll bk]
Hardy, George, Lincoln, cm (1790). [Poll bk]
Hardy, George, Duck Lane, Bilston, Staffs., cm and u (1830). [D]
Hardy, James, address unrecorded. Supplied a marble table to Temple Newsam House, Leeds in 1720. [Furn. Hist., 1967]
Hardy, James, address unrecorded, cm (1770). Advertised in York Courant, 27 February 1770. [Furn. Hist., 1971]
Hardy, James, Union St, North Shields, Northumb., carver and gilder (1827). [D]
Hardy, James, Aglionby, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1829). [D]
Hardy, James jnr, 60–61 Blackett St, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1833–38). [D] Trade card of J. Hardy, Newcastle, reads: ‘Carver & Gilder, Picture, Looking Glass, Frame and Cornice Manufacturer, Dealer in Oil Paintings. Near the Grainger St. Grey Column.’ [Landauer Coll., MMA, NY] Announced in Durham Advertiser, 22 November 1833, the opening of a shop in Saddler St, Durham, with S. Jacobson jnr, where they were to sell Continental oil paintings. See Robert Sandley Scott at this address in 1834.
Hardy, John jnr, Norwich and London, u (1779–1830). Recorded in Norwich, 1779–1818; London in 1799; and Lakenham in 1830. App. to John Marks, and admitted freeman of Norwich on 3 May 1779. [Norwich freemen reg. and poll bks]
Hardy, John, Coney St, York, turner and cm (1824–43). Announced that he was taking over the business of Martha Marshall (or Doughty) in Yorkshire Gazette, 8 May 1824. Made spinning wheels (one in the Castle Museum, York, bearing the stamp of ‘Hardy York’) until c.1832, when his advertisement in the Yorkshire Gazette made no mention of this branch of his business. Notice of business closure appeared in the same paper, 30 September 1843. See Charles Hardy.
Hardy, John, Ferrybridge, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hardy, John, 26 New Dock Walls, Hull, Yorks., cm (1835). [D]
Hardy, R., Pilgrim St, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1801). [D]
Hardy, Robert, High Friar St, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1827–38). Trading at no. 1, 1833–38. [D]
Hardy, S. C., 12 Hooper St, Clerkenwell, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hardy, Seth, York, carver (1726). Took William Hardy, carver, possibly his son, as app. in 1726 for eight years. [York app. reg.]
Hardy, William, 5 Old Montague St, Buck Lane, London, cm and chairmaker (1814). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 23 November 1814 for £200, £100 accounting for stock and utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 463, ref. 899738]
Hardy, William, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1826–32. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hardy, William, High St, Maidenhead, Berks., cm and u (1840–42). [D]
Hare, —, 25 Church Row, Newington, London, chair manufacturer (1809–11). [D]
Hare, Catherine, 16 James St, Devonport, Devon, chairmaker (1838). [D] See Richard Hare.
Hare, George, York, cm (1770). Son of John Hare, yeoman of Brandsby; app. to John Wright, cm, on 24 October 1770. [York app. reg.]
Hare, George, 92 Seymour Pl., London, u (1829). [D]
Hare, James, Market St, Tamworth, Staffs., cm (1835). [D]
Hare, Moses, Exeter, Devon, cm (1803–08). Addresses given at 13 Magdalen St in 1806 and 246 High St in 1807. Named in the Militia Census in 1803. Advertised sale of timber and veneer in Exeter Flying Post, 10 April 1806. On 21 May 1807 announced his removal to 246 High St, and advertised sale of mahogany and ‘a quantity of elegant cabinet furniture, e.g. drawing room sets of tables highly varnished in mahogany & satin wood etc.’; he also required a ‘good workman’. Advertised again on 30 July 1807 when stock included ‘new & second-hand mahogany & painted chairs, sets of dining, card & other tables; drawers, wardrobe, press & other bedsteads.’ Declared bankrupt, 12 November 1807 and 29 September 1808. Notice on 14 January 1808 concerned his app. John Isaac, 19 years old, who had run away.
Hare, Patrick, 19 Jackson's Pl., North St, Prospect St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). [D]
Hare, Richard, James St, Devonport, Devon, chair and sofa maker (1822–30). Trading at nos 15–16 in 1826, and 16–17 in 1830. Advertisement in Exeter Flying Post, 10 April 1828, reads: ‘West of England Fancy Chair and Sofa Manufactory, 15 and 16 James Street, Devonport. Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation, RICHARD HARE, respectfully solicits the attention of the Public to his Work and Warerooms, situate as above, for the display and manufacture of Fancy Chairs, Sofas etc. which articles he can guarantee to be equal in every respect to those made in London; and his terms more advantageous to purchasers. And, in earnestly requesting the inspection of the Trade, and the Public generally, to his extensive Stock, he can assure them that every article of it has been made under his immediate inspection, by expert workmen, and from the best materials …’. [D]
Hare, Robert, Norwich, u (1833). App. to Benjamin Hambling Roe; admitted freeman on 3 May 1833. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Hare, Thomas, 24 Lambeth Rd, St George's Fields, London, fancy japanned chair and sofa maker (1808–27). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 12 February 1823 for £300, £200 accounting for house and workshops, £50 on stock, utensils and goods in trust. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 489, ref. 1001478]
Hare, Thomas, Stamford, Lincs., picture frame maker. Established firm, c.1830, at St George's Sq., and was succeeded by his son and grandsons. [Stamford with Oakham and Uppingham, 1911]
Hare, Valentine, formerly of Dog-and-Bear Yd, Southwark, late of Dock-head, Southwark, London, chairmaker (1761). Discharge from Debtors’ Prison announced in London Gazette, 20 June 1761.
Hare, William, 12 Union St, Plymouth, Devon, chairmaker (1836–38). [D]
Harefinch, Peter, Chester, u (1695). App. to Samuel Kirkes of Chester, and admitted freeman on 16 November 1695. [Chester freemen rolls]
Harely, John, York, carver and gilder (1756). Took app. named Barker in 1756. [S of G, app. index]
Harewood, J., Hoddlesden, Darwen, Lancs, joiner and cm (1825). [D]
Harford, Benjamin, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1818–24). Addresses given at 18 Haymarket in 1818; 24 Copperas Hill in 1821; and Thomas Ct, New Scotland Rd in 1824. [D]
Harford, Charles, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1781–96). Trading at Ranelagh St in 1781; 107 Park Lane in 1783; Church St in 1790, no. 40 in 1794. Advertisement in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 23 October 1783 reads: ‘CHARLES HARFORD, CARVER, GILDER, GLASSGRINDER, OVAL-TURNER, PICTURE-FRAME MAKER, No. 107 PARK-LANE, LIVERPOOL. WHERE he hopes every thing in his business will be made to please those who favour him with their commands — Old frames gilt or cleaned. N.B. An apprentice wanted.’ [D]
Harford, J., London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harger, Robert, Settle, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834–37). [D]
Hargitt, Richard, York, cm (1759). Son of Richard Hargitt of St Michael-le-Belfrey parish; app. to Henry Anderson, cm, on 3 September 1759. [York app. reg.]
Hargrave, —, Hull, Yorks. Mahogany serpentine side table, c. 1780, recorded, bearing label. Designed in the French taste, and made of finely figured wood with crossbanded angles to its four cabriole legs; one drawer and gilded handles above a shaped apron. [Spinks, 1979] Probably Jeremiah or Joseph Hargrave.
Hargrave, Henry, 3 Somerset St, Portman Sq., London, u and cm (1835). [D]
Hargrave (or Hargrove), Jeremiah, Hull, Yorks., carver in stone and wood, architect and furniture maker (c.1726–86). Took app. named Foster in 1753. [S of G, app. index] Addresses given at Scale Lane, 1773–80, and listed as Jeremiah & Son, Joseph, at Saville St until 1802. Supplied items to Burton Constable, Yorks., including in 1768–69 carved and gilt Neo-classical side tables, wine cisterns, girandoles and statuary plinths. Some furniture was made to designs of James Wyatt. Between 1771–80 Hargrave provided various picture frames, one for ‘Barratt painting of House’ in 1773; carved ‘a large trophy of war for west front’, and in 1774 ‘the Crest & Ornament in Pediment’. In 1778 he supplied carved and gilt girandoles, and in 1780 carved ‘the ornament & mouldings for 3 Chimneypieces.’ Jeremiah and Joseph carried out further carving of picture frames and chimney pieces, and silvering glass in August 1784. [Humberside RO, Burton Constable vouchers, DDCC; C. Life, 3 June 1976, p. 1476; 6 and 13 May 1982, pp. 1359–60; I. and E. Hall, Historic Beverley, p. 47] See Joseph Hargrave.
Hargrave, John, Colne, Lancs., cm (1797). [D] Possibly John Hargreave.
Hargrave, Joseph, Hull, Yorks., carver in stone and wood, gilder, architect and furniture maker (1766–1802). Trading at Back Ropery Lane in 1784; Scale Lane before 1790; and with his father, Jeremiah, at Saville St, Dockside, 1790–1802. Insured his house for £300 in 1777 with the Sun Co. Imprisoned for debt in 1794. Supplied items to Burton Constable, Yorks, with his father, in 1784. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 261, p. 494; I. and E. Hall, Historic Beverley, p. 47] See Jeremiah Hargrave.
Hargrave (or Hargreave(s)), Josephus, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1828–41). Addresses given at 17 St James St, 1828–37; and 25 or 35 Woodhouse Lane, 1834–41. [D]
Hargrave, William, Newport St, Long Alley, London, u (1749– 52). Polled at Westminster in 1749. Named in newspapers in 1752. [Heal]
Hargrave, William, York, cm (1781). Son of Elizabeth Hargrave; app. to Christopher Seller, cm, on 20 August 1781. [York app. reg.]
Hargraves, —, Cloth Hall, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hargraves (or Hargreaves), William, Burnley, Lancs., cm and joiner (1814–28). Trading at Bridge End in 1814; Whitehouse Croft in 1818; 5 Fountain St in 1824; King St, 1824–25; and Nile St in 1828. [D]
Hargreave & Co., Park Row, Leeds, Yorks., joiners and cm (1790). [D]
Hargreaves, Francis & Co., Bold St, Liverpool, carvers and gilders (1834–39). Recorded as Hargreaves & Co. at no. 65 in 1834; Francis & Co. at no. 63, 1835–37; and no. 88 in 1839. [D]
Hargreaves, J., Royal Oak Yd, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1817). [D]
Hargreaves, John, Colne Lane, Colne, Lancs., timber merchant, joiner and cm (1814–34). [D] Possibly John Hargrave.
Hargreaves, John, Burnley, Lancs., cm (1824–34). Addresses given at Thomas (or Thorn) Inn Yd in 1824; Market St and Yorkshire St in 1828; and South Parade in 1834. [D]
Hargreaves, Thomas, Lancaster, cm (1785–1834). Named in the Gillow records, 1785–1834, and admitted freeman, 1831–32. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow; Lancaster freemen rolls] Probably two craftsmen are concerned here.
Hargreaves, Thomas, Burnley, Lancs., timber merchant and cm (1792–d. by 1819). Dead by 1819 when referred to concerning bankruptcy proceedings against him in Liverpool Mercury, 18 June. Mahogany long-case clock, c.1788–1800, recorded, with scroll pediment, arched dial, boxwood stringing, door with pointed arch, and inlaid panels in the Neo-classical style. [D]
Hargreaves, Thomas, Scotland Rd, Liverpool, u (1804). [D]
Hargreaves, William & John, Mill Hill, Leeds, Yorks., cm and builders (1791). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 21 January 1791 for £1,500. [GL, Sun MS vol. 374, ref. 578936]
Harker, Anthony, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harker, Anthony, 22 Harp Alley, Shoe Lane, London, chair and sofa maker (1827–28). [D]
Harker, Jonathan, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1789–96. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Harker, Jonathan, Kendal, Westmld, on 10 June 1825 supplied to Rydal Hall a new sedan chair costing £26. [V&A archives]
Harker, Ralph, 67 Long Mill Gate, Manchester, cm (1802). [D]
Harker, Richard, Hawes, Yorks., joiner and cm (1840). [D]
Harker, Thomas, Stanley St, Bury, Lancs., joiner and cm (1816–18). [D]
Harker, William, 12 Four Yards, Manchester, cm (1832–40). Recorded also at no. 12, 1836–40. [D]
Harkness, Joseph, High Holborn, London, cm (1782–84). Recorded at no. 316, 1782–83, and no. 96 in 1784. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1782 for £500 on his house and warehouse; and in 1783 with Thomas Browne, for £2,000 of which £1,350 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 300, p. 439; vol. 313, p. 36]
Harland, James, 30 Red Cross St, Cripplegate, London, cm (1826–27). [D]
Harland, John snr, Low Fold, North St, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1817–40). [D]
Harland, John jnr, Leeds, Yorks., cm and clock-case manufacturer (1821–37). Trading at Bramley's Yd, Lowerhead Row, 1821–34, and Mabgate Green, 1834–37. [D]
Harland, John & William, 44 Meadow Lane, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1834–37). [D]
Harland, Joseph, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1826–30). Trading at 12 Crown St in 1826 and 10 Swinegate in 1830. [D]
Harland, Thomas, York, cm (1824). Son of Thomas Harland, labourer of Clifton; app. to Joseph Marsh, cm, on 26 July 1824. [York app. reg.]
Harland, William, 65 Meadow Lane, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1839). [D] See John & William Harland.
Harle, William, at ‘The Nag's Head’, Pilgrim St, Newcastle, cm (?) (1754–55). Sale of furniture on closure of wareroom advertised in Newcastle Courant, 17 August 1754 and 12 April 1755, consisting of a variety of cabinet work including ‘bason stands’ and ‘voiders’.
Harles, Henry, address unrecorded. Carried out numerous repairs and alterations to furniture and woodwork between 12 March 1756 and 12 March 1757 for James Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., totalling £1 11s 4d, and paid on 24 March 1757. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5]
Harley, Alexander, 40 Berwick St, Soho, London, cm and chairmaker (1823). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 27 November 1823 for £300 of which £200 accounted for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 498, ref. 101382]
Harley, Alexander, 82 Margaret St, London, chair and sofa manufacturer (1829). [D]
Harley, Cornelius, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, u (d. by 1759). His son Robert, u, admitted freeman in 1759. [Gt Yarmouth freemen's calendar]
Harley, David, 38 Hunslet Lane, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1817). [D]
Harley, H. S., 75 Albany St, Regent's Park, London, cm (1835). [D]
Harley, Henry, 1 Clarence St, Regent's Park, London, cm, u and chairmaker (1839). [D]
Harley, James, Sun St, Barnwell, Cambridge, turner and chairmaker (1830). [D]
Harley, John, 8 Robert St, Blackfriars Rd, London, cm, ornamental stringing inlayer and wood dyer (1808–39). [D]
Harley, Robert, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, u (1759–87). Son of Cornelius Harley, u, deceased; admitted freeman by birth in 1759. Former app. of Harley and William Seaman, named John Kemp, u, admitted freeman by apprenticeship in 1787. Harley insured his household goods for £800 in 1776 with the Sun Co. [Gt Yarmouth freemen's calendar and poll bk; GL, Sun MS vol. 247, p. 284]
Harling, John, Liverpool, cm (1774–77). Petitioned freedom by birth as son of Joseph Harling, cm, in 1774. Admitted freeman on 8 September 1777. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Harling, Joseph, Liverpool, cm and timber merchant (1751–81). Trading at Moore St in 1769; 26 James St, 1772–81; as cm and glass grinder in 1774; as Joseph Harling & jnr, timber merchants in 1781; and in partnership with Nicholas Cross, then his son John Cross, timber merchants, with timber yards in Park Lane and Redcross St in 1780. Joseph Harling was admitted freeman on 16 April 1751, and his son, John, petitioned freedom by birth in 1774. Notices in Williamson's Liverpoool Advertiser, 19 and 30 August 1765 read: ‘Wanted in Warrington, two or three compleat hands Cabinet Makers who may be constantly employed all the winter … ’. Another notice on 18 February 1780 concerned the ending of the partnership between Harling and Nicholas Cross, on the latter's death, and the starting of a new one with his son, John Cross, a timber merchant. Sale of stock and utensils of the late Nicholas Cross, with or without shop and warehouse, also advertised. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Harman, —, address unrecorded, u (1664–68). Samuel Pepys visited ‘Mr. Harman the upholsterer’ on seven occasions. The earliest entry, on 23 August 1664, reads: ‘called at Harman's and there bespoke some chairs.’ In 1666 he went to the shop three times during August and September when he was choosing a bed and hangings for ‘my new closet’. Finally on 19 October 1668 he set out from home ‘by coach with my wife and Deb. and Mr. Harman, the upholster, and carried them to take measure of Mr. Wren's bed at St. James's, I being resolved to have just such another made me.’ [Diary of Samuel Pepys (1659–69)]
Harman, George, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b.c. 1820–41). Aged 21 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Harman, James, 1 Bathwick Pl., Bath, Som., cm (1826). [D]
Harman, Joseph, High St, Taunton, Som., cm (1778–98). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1778 for £300, £200 accounting for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 267, p. 118]
Harman, Thomas, Baldwins Gdns, London, cm (1784). Insured houses for £200 in 1784. [GL, Sun MS vol. 322, p. 196]
Harman, William & Son, 1 John St, Oxford St, London, invalid chair maker (1829). [D]
Harmer, B., address unrecorded. Early 19th-century library reading chair recorded bearing the stamp of ‘B. HARMER’. [Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, Ipswich Museums and Art Galleries, L. 1941–125] Stamp also found on set of hall chairs with lunette crestings at Petworth House, Sussex; also on set of six mahogany shield-back chairs, c.1790, each with five curved splats headed by sprays of leaves, with nailed leather seats and chamfered legs; and on a mahogany piano stool with stuffed circular legs [Sotheby's, 26 October 1962, lot 158; 11 October 1974, lot 146]; also on a suite of Regency ebonised and parcel gilt dining chairs. [Christie's, 29 November 1984, lot 32 (illus.)]
Harmer, Wodehouse, Norwich, u (1741–53). Son of Samuel Harmer, cutler; admitted freeman on 29 January 1741. Former app. of Harmer and Paul Colombine, named Isaac Hoyle, u, admitted freeman on 3 May 1753. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Harness, William, Liverpool, cm (1834–39). Trading at 3 Albion Pl., Pembroke Gdns in 1834, and 5 Springfield St in 1839. [D]
Harold, John, Norwich, u (1692–1712). Son of William Harold, u; admitted freeman on 22 June 1692. Former app., Thomas Harold, admitted freeman on 4 February 1712. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Harold, Thomas, Norwich, u (1712–18). App. to John Harold, and admitted freeman on 24 February 1712. Took app. named Morse in 1718. [Norwich freemen reg.; S of G, app. index]
Harold, William, Norwich, u (1692). His son, John Harold, admitted freeman on 22 June 1692. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Harpe, Thomas, 18 Lawrence St, Liverpool, u (1834). [D]
Harper, Anthony, Birchall St, Birmingham, cm, u and broker (1828–30). [D]
Harper, Benjamin, address unrecorded, upholder (1760–67). Son of Benjamin Harper, blacksmith of Barnwell, Cambs., and father of John Rogers Harper, upholder. App. to Henry Hall on 12 January 1760, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 25 March 1767. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records.]
Harper, George, Liverpool, cm (1774–80). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Thomas Bailey in 1774, paying 6s 8d, when his indentures were produced and certified. Admitted freeman on 9 September 1780. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Harper, George, Hull, Yorks., joiner and cm (1812). Took app. named George Fish of Paull in Holderness in April 1812. [Hull app. reg.]
Harper, George, Shropshire St, Market Drayton, Salop, cm and joiner (1840). [D]
Harper, John, King St, Covent Gdn, London, carver (1774). [Bristol poll bk]
Harper, John Rogers, 17 John St, Minories, London, upholder (1793). Son of Benjamin Harper, upholder; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 7 February 1793. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harper, John, 23 Kent St, Southwark, London, chair and sofa maker (1826–28). [D]
Harper, Joseph, Norwich, cm (1818). App. to Joseph Pigg; admitted freeman on 24 February 1818. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Harper(s), Joseph & Samuel, Broad St, Ludlow, Salop, cm and u (1822–35). Trading with John Harper in 1822. Trade card of J. J. & S. Harpers [Heal Coll., BM] gives trade as bed, window cornice and pier glass makers and shows elaborately draped curtains, Regency chair, folding bed, secrétaire and a classical sofa with drapery hanging over the ends. [D]
Harper, Richard, Coventry St, St James's, Haymarket, London, upholstery warehouseman (1765–75). Trading as Harper & Shipton, 1768–74. [D]
Harper, Robert, Dam St, Lichfield, Staffs., chairmaker and turner (1834). [D]
Harper, Thomas, Liverpool, u (b.1788–1839). Addresses given at 5 Gt Oxford St North, Low Hill in 1827; 20 Burlington St, 1827–29; 9 Gill St, 1829; and 18 Low Hill, 1835–39. Born on 5 April 1788, and admitted freeman on 5 October 1812. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Harpham, Ishmael, Gracious St, Whittlesey, Cambs., cm (1830). [D]
Harpham, Miles, 14 Rahere St, City Rd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Harpley, Richard, Guisborough, Yorks., joiner, carpenter and/ or cm (1828–34). [D]
Harpley, William jnr, Guisborough, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1823). [D]
Harradan, Richard, 85 on the Terrace, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, carver and gilder (1779). Insured his house for £100 in 1779. [GL, Sun MS vol. 274, p. 531]
Harradan (or Harraden), Richard, 83 St Martin's Lane, London, carver, gilder and printseller (1790–93). [D]
Harraden, —, London, carver, gilder and printseller (1792–94). Addresses given on trade cards at 78 Wells St, Oxford St in 1792, and 16 Little Newport St, Leicester Sq., 1793–94. Identical Neo-classical cards show female figure in classical dress bearing a lamp, and about to stab a man sleeping in a Klismos chair. [Banks Coll., BM] Possibly the Harrader of London who subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harraden (or Harredon), —, address unrecorded, carver and gilder (1806–29). In 1806 received £23 for cleaning a picture and gilding frames at Madingley Hall, Cambs. Carried out work at Trinity College, Cambridge, between 1808–29, in 1808 supplying a plate glass for King Henry VIII's Room at the lodge, costing £52 10s; and ‘Enriching the Kings Arms over Do.’, costing £2 10s. [Cambs. RO, Madingley Hall archives, S88 A33; Trinity College archives]
Harraden, Jabez Richards (or Richard Jabez), St Mary St, Cambridge, cm and u (1824–30). Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 13 April 1830. [D]
Harratt, Thomas, 3 Broad St, Soho, London, cm, u and undertaker (1839). [D]
Harrington, John snr, 311 High Holborn, London, plate case maker (1801). [D]
Harriot, Archibald & John, Library Stairs, North Shields, Northumb., carvers and gilders (1834). [D]
Harriot, James, Edgbaston St, Birmingham, cm (1767). [D]
Harriot, William, Vine St, London, cm (1774). [Poll bk]
Harris, —, Meeting-House Yd, near Barber Surgeon's Hall, London, cm (1742). Report in London Evening Post, 21–24 August 1742, of a fire on his premises ‘which consumed great Part of the said House.’
Harris, —, at ‘The Golden Anchor’, no. 8, near Bedlam Walk, between New Broad St and Old Bedlam, Moorfields, London, upholder, cm and sworn broker (1771). Invoice for a large glass in a carved frame, costing £6 6s is dated 11 February 1771, and receipted by Thomas Harris. Reverse of invoice bears trade label which states that he ‘MAKES, buys, sells, and appraises, all Manner of Household Furniture &c. Note, Funerals Furnished.’ [GL, print dept]
Harris, —, Ottery St Mary, Devon, chairmaker (1797–98). [D] Probably William Harris.
Harris, —, Church St, Lambeth, London, chairmaker (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, and named in his list of master cabinet makers, 1803.
Harris, —, address unrecorded. In February 1828 was paid ‘for taking back Patent Bed’, by 3rd Lord Braybrooke of Audley End, Essex, London, and Billingbear, Berks. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A361]
Harris, —, Foregate St, Chester, picture frame maker (1840). Death of his wife on 17 October 1840 reported in Chester Chronicle, Cheshire and North Wales Advertiser, 23 October.
Harris (or Harries), Arthur, Shrewsbury, Salop and London, u (1721–47). Named in the Shrewsbury burgess roll, of London, in 1721. Of Shrewsbury, took app. named Hulse in 1747. [S of G, app. index]
Harris, Benjamin, Toft, Cambs., chairmaker (d.1724). [Cambridge Univ. Lib., will WR 12:30]
Harris, Benjamin, Norwell Pl., Bethnall Green Rd, London, bedstead maker (1839). [D]
Harris, C. R., 18 Poland St, London, carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Harris, Caleb, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1811–41). Aged 30 at the time of the 1841 Census. [D]
Harris, Charles, 7 Percy St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Harris, Christopher, 1 Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate St, London, cm (1820). [D]
Harris, D., 73 George St, Portman Sq., London, u (1835). [D]
Harris, E., 7 Church St, Southwark, London, bedstead and cm (1820). [D]
Harris, Edmond, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1791–1841). Aged 50 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Harris, Edward, 275 Kent St, Southwark, London, bedstead and cornice maker (1820). [D]
Harris, Edward, 9 Bridge St, Southwark, London, cm and u (1825–29). [D]
Harris, Edward, 8 Little Charles St, York St, Regent's Park, London, chairmaker (1835). [D]
Harris, Edward, 14 New Rd, Fitzroy Sq., London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Harris, Francis, 7 Stoney Hill, Bristol, carver (1775). [D]
Harris, Francis, High St, Godalming, Surrey, cm and u (1839). [D]
Harris, George, 136 Union St, Southwark, London, bedstead maker (1826). [D]
Harris, Henry, St James, Bristol, upholder (1739–54). [Poll bks]
Harris, Henry snr (?), West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1790–1830). [D; Militia Census, 1798]
Harris, Henry jnr (?), West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1786–1841). Aged 55 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Harris, Isaac, Compton St, Westminster, London, cm (1715–20). Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy on 12 April 1715 on his house and workshop. Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 25 April 1715 and 15 March 1720 with the Sun Co. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 14, p. 225; GL, Sun MS vol. 4, p. 236; vol. 11, p. 38]
Harris, J., address unrecorded. Name stamped on a painted Sheraton-style chair, c.1800, at Burghley House, Lincs.
Harris, J., 16 Ladymead, Bath, Som., cm and broker (1819). [D]
Harris, J., Plymouth, Devon, joiner and carver (1826). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 6 October 1826.
Harris, Jabez, South St, Greenwich, London, cm and u (1832– 38). [D]
Harris, James, 45 St Andrew's St, London, carver (1806). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 27 October 1806 for £100 of which £30 accounted for stock and utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 437, ref. 795645]
Harris, James, Ilfracombe, Devon, cm (1823–30). Birth of his son announced in The Alfred, 18 April 1826. [D]
Harris, James, Worcester, carver and gilder (1828–37). Recorded at 26 High St, 1828–30; 10 Copenhagen St in 1835; and Greenhill Terr., 1837. [D]
Harris, James, Exeter, Devon, cm (1833–37). Recorded at Paul St, 1833–35, and Paris St in 1837. Son John bapt. at St Paul's on 31 January 1833; daughter Jane on 30 August 1835; and daughter Ellen at St Sidwell's on 31 August 1837. [PR (bapt.)]
Harris, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1712). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 26 August 1712. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harris, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1712–44). Son of John Harris, yeoman of Preston-upon-Wye, Herefs.; app. to William Scrimshire, in trust for George Cure, on 19 February 1712. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 13 June 1744. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harris, John, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, carver (d.1736). Death reported in Gents Mag., November 1736.
Harris, John, Vinegar Yd, London, picture frame maker (1749). [Poll bk]
Harris, John, Leadenhall St, London, joiner and cm (1758–59). Rococo trade card of John Harris and Richard Moseley gives address ‘opposite the East India House, Leadenhall St., London,’ and states: ‘Makes & Sells all Sorts of Cabinet Chair & Looking Glass Goods at the most Reasonable Rates. N.B. For Exportation.’ [BM] In 1758 John Harris employed three non-freemen for six weeks, then six months. In his will, made in February 1759, and witnessed by Richard Moseley and Henry Bagshaw, he left all to his wife, Sarah. Probate dated October 1759. [D; GL, City Licence bks, vol. 2; Will PRO, Prob. 11328; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 22]
Harris, John, Thaxted, Essex, cm (b.1735–d.1814). Took app. named Moore in 1760. Named in the Essex freeholders’ bk for Dunmow Hundred in 1768. Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1784 for £200, utensils and stock accounting for £100. Paper label recorded on inside of the secret drawer of a mahogany bureau, which reads: ‘John Harris, Thaxted in Essex, Fecit. Practising the Trade of a Cabinetmaker above 62 years, During which Period made and sold upwards of 500 Bureaus, made this in the 78th Year of his Age, May 22, Anno Dom. 1813.’ [D; S of G, app. index; Essex RO, Q/RJ13; GL, Sun MS vol. 322, p. 11; C. Life, 5 July 1979; Wills at Chelmsford]
Harris, John, Horksley, Essex, upholder (1768). [Colchester poll bk]
Harris, John, 43 Moor St, Birmingham, cm (1767–70). [D]
Harris, John, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, upholder (1780). [Colchester poll bk]
Harris, John, 120 Blackman St, London, cm (1789). [D]
Harris, John, 39 Wilson St, Finsbury Sq., London, cm (1802–08). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 20 October 1802 for £800; on 11 April 1803 for £1,500; and on 17 October 1808 for £1,500, of which stock, utensils and goods in trust accounted for £200, and timber £1,200. [GL, Sun MS vol. 423, ref. 738715; vol. 427, ref. 745858; vol. 444, ref. 821754]
Harris, John, Conduit St, Hanover Sq., London, carver, gilder and frame maker (1807–28). Recorded at no. 30, 1806–09; no. 31, 1809–28; no. 34 in 1826; and as Harris & Pearse from 1815–28. Trade card of Harris, carver and gilder, gives address at 31 Conduit St. Harris & Pearse charged £2 4s to Lord Crewe of Crewe Hall in 1828 for ‘1 Rich Frame Gilt in Old Gold & Varnishing the Picture.’ [D; Banks Coll., BM; Chester RO, Crewe Hall papers, DCR/47/Box 4]
Harris, John, 28 Gerrard St, Soho, London, carver and gilder (1808). [D]
Harris, John, 14 Frith St, Soho, London, cm and u (1809). [D]
Harris, John, 40 Crawford St, London, upholder and undertaker (1817–21). Presumably the u of 40 Crawford St whose lease and stock were sold on 17 July 1821 by Edward Foster of 14 Greek St. The catalogue ‘of the fashionable & WellManufactured stock of Upholstery & Cabinet Work’ included four-post bedsteads and ‘Chintz Furnitures’, French canopy bedsteads and bedding; rosewood and mahogany chests of drawers, loo, card and sofa tables; drawing room and library chairs, Grecian couches and sofas, carpets and ‘Satin Hair Cloth’. [D; V&A archives]
Harris, John, Bristol, u, undertaker, house and estate agent (1818–25). Addresses given at 8 Prichard St in 1818; 13 Wilson St in 1820; no. 10, 1821–23; and 7 St John St, 1824–25. [D]
Harris, John, Bristol, cabinet carver and furniture broker (1836–40). Addresses given at 11 Philadelphia St, 1836–37; 34 Broad Mead in 1838; and 3 Merchant St, 1839–40. [D]
Harris, John, Saville House, Leicester Sq., London, upholder and carpet warehouseman (1820). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 11 September 1820 for £1,300 of which £250 accounted for household goods in his house at 7 Edward St, Kensington; and £500 on a house in High St, Hampstead. [GL, Sun MS vol. 483, ref. 970600] Possibly:
Harris, John, High St, Kensington, London, u (1823). [D]
Harris, John, 7 Gt Earl St, Seven Dials, London, cm and u (1827–29). [D]
Harris, John, 231 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, u (1826–39). [D]
Harris, John, 28 Union St, Middlx Hospital, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Harris, John, 2 Court, Milk St, Birmingham, cm and u (1830). [D]
Harris, John, 15 Gt Adam St, Manchester Sq., London, u and undertaker (1835). [D]
Harris, John, 45 Hampden St, Somerstown, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Harris, John, Market St, Lane End, Staffs., cm and u (1834–35). [D]
Harris, John, 16 Essex St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1837). [D]
Harris, Jonah, 3 Talbot Ct, Gracechurch St, London, upholder and carpet warehouseman (1783). [D] See Josiah Harris at this address.
Harris, Jonathan, near Fleet Bridge, London, ‘an eminent upholder’ (d.1748). Death at his house near Fleet Bridge reported in General Advertiser, 1748. He died ‘universally lamented’, a widower who ‘hath left an only Daughter bewailing…’.
Harris, Jos., Leadenhall St, London, turner (1780). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., October 1780.
Harris, Jos., 2 Norfolk St, Middlx Hospital, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Harris, Joseph, address unrecorded, upholder (1713/14). Son of Gamaliol Harris, Gent. of Kinlingbury, Northton [Northampton?]; app. to Richard Camfield, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 3 February 1713/14. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harris, Josiah, Ipswich, Suffolk, cm (1775–d.1784). Took out Sun Insurance policies on houses in 1775 for £900; in 1779 for £400; and in 1780 for £400 on houses and office. Will proved at Norwich in 1784. [GL, Sun MS vol. 236, p. 626; vol. 276, p. 619; vol. 280, p. 78; Norfolk Record Soc., index of wills]
Harris, Josiah, Aldersgate St, London, u (1779). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1779 for £100 of which £30 accounted for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 276, p. 185]
Harris, Josiah, 3 Talbot Ct, Gracechurch St, London, upholder and carpet warehouseman (1781–91). Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1781 and 1784 for £2,100 and £1,500 respectively, utensils, stock and goods accounting for £1,000 and £500. Took app. named William Hutchins in February 1791 for £20, £5 of which was charity money from Christ's Hospital. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 295, p. 552; vol. 324, p. 196; GL, Joiners’ Co. records, vol. 7, p. 230] See Jonah Harris at this address.
Harris, Jubas, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1806–41). Aged 35 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Harris, Katherine, address unrecorded, upholder (1708/09). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 2 February 1708/09. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harris, Mary, address unrecorded, upholder (1721/22). Daughter of John Harris, upholder; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 15 February 1721/22. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harris, Michael, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1823–37). Four sons and four daughters bapt. between 1823 and 1837. [PR (bapt.)]
Harris, Maurice, Bristol, carver (1751). Took app. named Evans in 1751. [S of G, app. index]
Harris, Ralph, Mountsorrel, Leics., turner and carpenter (1784). [Leicester freemen rolls]
Harris, Ralph, 43 or 48 Mary-le-Bone Lane, London, carver and gilder (1809–11). [D]
Harris, Ralph, High St, Maidenhead, Berks., cm (1823–30). [D]
Harris, Ratcliff, Boar St, Lichfield, Staffs., cm (1835). [Poll bk]
Harris, Richard, Witch St, St Mary-le-Savoy, London, u (1692). In June 1692 fined as a Papist for refusing Oath of Fidelity. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Middlx session bk, 498, p. 76–79]
Harris, Richard, Northampton, cm (1820–40). Trading at Sheep St, 1820–23 and College St, 1826–40. [D; poll bks]
Harris, Richard, Breadmarket St, Lichfield, Staffs., cm and auctioneer (1822–35). Addresses given at Market St in 1822 and Breadmarket St, 1828–35. [D]
Harris, Robert, St Mary Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk, cm (1782–84). Named in the calendar of marriage licence bonds on 21 November 1782. Recorded in Tavern St in 1784. [D; Suffolk RO, FAA: 50/2/105]
Harris, Robert, 6 King St, Bloomsbury, London, upholder (1783–1823). Recorded as R. & Co., bed and mattress makers, 6 Upper King St, 1822–23. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 29 September 1783 and 29 September 1809 for £1,700 of which £700 accounted for stock, utensils and goods in trust; and on 1 September 1808 for £700 on his house. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 448, ref. 804645; vol. 445, ref. 819970; vol. 448, ref. 834644]
Harris, Robert, 125 High Holborn, London, bedstead and bedding manufacturer (1822–39). Trading as Harris & Co., 1822–28. [D]
Harris, Robert, 23 Old St, St Luke's, London, chair and sofa maker, cm (1835–39). [D]
Harris, Robert, 4 Haworth St, Everton, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Harris, Robert, Stalbridge, Dorset, joiner and cm (1840). [D]
Harris, S., Little Brook St, Hanover Sq., London, carver and gilder (1826–27). [D]
Harris, Samuel, Manchester, upholder (1754–88). Trading at 18 Hanging Ditch, 1772–88. Took app. named Bancroft in 1754. [D; S of G, app. index]
Harris, Samuel, St Edmund's, Exeter, Devon, cm (1803). [Militia Census]
Harris, Samuel, Booker, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1811–41). Aged 30 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Harris, Shepherd, Bristol, cm (1754–81). Recorded in Castle Precincts, 1754–74, and Temple parish, 1781. [Poll bks]
Harris, Simeon, Broad St, Bloomsbury, London, cm (1809–11). [D]
Harris, Thomas, Lancaster, cm (1781–1811). App. to Thomas Bagot in 1781, and admitted freeman, 1801–02. Named in the Gillow records in 1788, 1799 and 1811. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Harris, Thomas, 2 Frontier Ct, St Martin's Lane, London, cm (1786). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 31 July 1786 for £100, £20 accounting for utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 338, p. 231]
Harris, Thomas, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1790–98]. [D; Militia Census]
Harris, Thomas, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1791–1841). Listed in a directory of 1830. Aged 50 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Harris, Thomas, 406 Oxford St, London, u, bed and bedding manufacturer (1803–25). [D]
Harris, Thomas, 1 Warwick Row, Blackfriars Rd, London, u (1808). [D]
Harris, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1804–27). Trading at Brownlow Hill in 1804 and 16 McKee St in 1827. [D]
Harris, Thomas, Ellbroad St, Bristol, turner and chairmaker (1806–17). Trading at no. 1, 1809–17. [D]
Harris, Thomas, 30 Penn St, Bristol, timber merchant and cm (1831–40). [D]
Harris, Thomas jnr, Homes's Ct, adjoining 41 Castle St, Bristol, turner and bedstead manufacturer (1832–40). Trading also as cm from 1839. [D]
Harris, Thomas, 1 Bishops Ct, Old Bailey, London, mahogany case manufacturer (1820). [D]
Harris, Thomas, 40 Crawford St, Montague Sq., London, u (1820). [D]
Harris, Thomas, 56 Greek St, Soho, London, u and bedstead warehouseman (1820). [D]
Harris, Thomas, 37 White St, Southwark, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Harris, Thomas, Henley St, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks., chairmaker (1830). [D]
Harris, Thomas, 9 New St and 19 New Summer St, Birmingham, u, furnishing draper, carpet dealer and paper hanger (1829–35). Submitted bill to Mr Lloyd, 1829–30, totalling £1 14s 8d for ‘Gothic Chintz’. Bill head gives address at 9 New St, and lists stock of ‘Brussels, Kidderminster, Scotch and Venetian Carpets, EARTH RUGS, DRUGGETS, DOOR & CARRIAGE — MATS, INDIA & IMPERIAL MATTING, Floor Cloths … Table Linens … Counterpanes, Quilts, Blankets, Bed Ticks, Moreens, Chintz & Dimity Furniture, Curtain Muslins, Coloured Furniture Linings, Window Hollands … Tassels, Fringes, Bed Laces &c. Bedsteads fitted up in a Superior Manner …’. [D; Herefs. RO, F60/295)
Harris, Thomas, Luke St, Islington, Birmingham, cm (1835). [D]
Harris, Thomas, Tamworth, Staffs., cm and u (1818–34). Recorded at Bolebridge St, 1818–22, and Lichfield St, 1828–34. [D]
Harris, Thomas, Dudley, Worcs., picture frame maker (1839). [D]
Harris, W. & Son, Bread Market St, Lichfield, Staffs., cm and u (1818). [D]
Harris, William, at ‘The Golden Head’, St Alban St, St James's, London, upholder (1718–25). Named in newspapers, 1718–25. Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 3 December 1719. [Heal; GL, Sun MS vol. 9, p. 31]
Harris, William, address unrecorded, upholder (1719). Son of James Harris, yeoman of Long Rugby, Northton; app. to Richard Campfield, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 7 October 1719 by servitude. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harris, William, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1749). [Poll bk]
Harris, William, Barnstaple, Devon, joiner, cm and chapman (1750). Declared bankrupt, General Advertiser, 8 August 1750.
Harris, William, Ottery St Mary, Devon, cm (1760). Took app. named Hake in 1760. [S of G, app. index] See Harris, —.
Harris, William, Cob's Ct, Blackfriars, London, chairmaker (1808). [D]
Harris, William, ‘Tunbridge’, Kent, chairmaker (1816). Son Thomas bapt. on 1 December 1816, in parish of SS Peter and Paul. [PR (bapt.)]
Harris, William, Norton St, London, bedstead maker (1820). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 16 November 1820 with Thomas Wildey of 25 Berwick St for £800 on Wildey's house and workshop behind. [GL, Sun MS vol. 483, ref. 972684]
Harris, William, 7 Peter St, Bath, Som., cm (1826). [D]
Harris, William, 42 Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, London, u and cm (1826–28). [D]
Harris, William, 24 Wilson St, Soho, London, u (1829). [D]
Harris, William, 136 Union St, Southwark, London, bedstead maker (1829). [D]
Harris, William, Gloucester, cm and chairmaker (1820–30). Trading in Southgate St in 1820; as carver and gilder at Lower Northgate St, 1822–23, and Glo'ster Pl., London Rd in 1830. Children bapt. at St John Baptist, 1821, 1825 and 1827. [D; PR (bapt.)]
Harris, William, Towns End, Dover, Kent., cm (1826–39). [D; poll bks]
Harris, William, Younder St, Ottery St Mary, Devon, chairmaker (1830). [D] See Harris, —.
Harris, William, Marsh St, Hanley, Staffs., joiner, builder and cm (1834). [D]
Harris, William, Greenhill Terr., Worcester, carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Harris, William, Mount Pleasant, Brixton Hill, Brixton, London, u and cm (1838). [D]
Harris, William, 11 Lower Castle St, Bristol, turner, hat and bonnet block, pressing machine and bedstead manufacturer (1838–40). [D]
Harris, William, South St and Cold Bath Row, Greenwich, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Harris & Catton, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmakers (1830). [D]
Harris & Chapman, 8 Denmark St, St Giles, London, invalid chair makers (1829). [D]
Harris & King, London (?). In 1772 received payment for furniture supplied to Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End, Essex. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A203]
Harrison, Mrs, London, upholder and supplier of Oriental goods (1695). Mrs Harrison supplied a ‘Japan Cabinet & a black carved fraime’ costing £52 for Petworth House, Sussex, in 1695. [Nat Trust guide to Petworth, p. 15]
Harrison, —, at the ‘Cross Keys’, Fleet Ditch, London, u (1748). Named in newspapers in 1748. [Heal] Possibly Jonathan Harrison.
Harrison, —, address unrecorded, u (1775–76). Named in the private accounts of Richard Hoare of Boreham House, Essex, on 1 November 1775 receiving £1 2s 9d; and on 12 April 1776, 5s 6d. [Essex RO, D/Du 649/2]
Harrison, —, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harrison, —, Norwich, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harrison, Andrew, Sussex St, Sunderland, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Harrison, Benjamin, Gowthorpe, near Selby, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834–37). [D]
Harrison, Cleave, address unrecorded, upholder (1719–27). Son of Stephen Harrison, confectioner of Cambridge; app. to Thomas Dawson on 20 August 1719, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 5 July 1727. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Harrison, Edward, Windmill St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, u (c.1802–09). Lent to James Belcher Ball, cordwainer of Kensington, deceased, £280 towards £560 penal sum on bond. [PRO, C13 118/16, bill 1809]
Harrison, Edward, English St, Carlisle, Cumb., cm and/or joiner (1834). [D]
Harrison, George, Liverpool, u (b. 1817–40). Admitted freeman on 27 July 1840. [Liverpool freemen rolls]
Harrison, George, Temple Sowerby, Westmld, joiner and/or cm (1829–34). [D]
Harrison, George, 28 Middle St, Newcastle cm and furniture broker (1834). [D]
Harrison, George, Market Pl., Pontefract, Yorks., cm (1834–37). [D]
Harrison, George, Wycliffe, Yorks., joiner and cm (1840). [D]
Harrison, Henry, Liverpool, cm (1825). App. to William Atkinson in 1825. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Harrison, Henry Wood, Liverpool, u (1827). Admitted freeman on 18 October 1827. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Harrison, Herbert, St Sepulchregate, Doncaster, Yorks., carver and gilder (1837). [D]
Harrison, Isaac, 14 Brown St, Granville St, Liverpool, and 2 Cornwallis St, joiner and cm (1824). [D]
Harrison, J., Carlisle Pl., Lambeth, London, chairmaker (1809–11). [D]
Harrison, James, Norwich, u (1717–60). Recorded in both St Andrew's and St Peter Mancroft parishes in Norwich poll of 1734, possibly implying two craftsmen of the same name. James (Jacob) Harrison, son of William Harrison, admitted freeman on 13 November 1717. His app., William Notley, upholder, was assigned to Paul Colombine, u, and admitted freeman on 3 May 1760. Harrison took app. named Durrant in 1720. [Poll bk; Norwich freemen reg.; S of G, app. index]
Harrison, James, Bakehouse Lane, Leicester, cm and joiner (1767–80). App. to William Jennings and admitted freeman in 1767. Advertised sale of stock in trade in Leicester Journal, 29 January 1780. [Leicester freemen rolls]
Harrison, James, 44 Upper Rathbone Pl., London, cane worker (1808). [D]
Harrison, James, 1 Back Hill, Hatton Gdn, London, bedstead maker (1809–11). [D]
Harrison, James, 21 Lawton St, Liverpool, cm (1821). Admitted freeman on 20 October 1821. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Harrison, James, Golborne St, Warrington, Lancs., chairmaker (1822). [D]
Harrison, James, 1 Howard St, Sheffield, Yorks., joiner and cm (1822). [D]
Harrison, James, Bridge St, Belper, Derbs., joiner and cm (1835). [D]
Harrison, John, Canterbury, Kent, u (1742). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., June 1742.
Harrison, John, Newcastle, u (1774). Son William admitted freeman by patrimony on 2 July 1774. [Newcastle freemen reg.]
Harrison, John, 6 North side of Church St, St Ann's, London, cm (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £300, £160 accounting for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 258, p. 51]
Harrison, John, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1777–d.1790). Trading at 2 Tarleton St in 1777; 23 Argyle St in 1781; Rainford's Gdns, 1787–90, no. 5 in 1787. Death reported in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 15 February 1790. [D]
Harrison, John, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, u (1784). [Colchester poll bk]
Harrison, John, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records between 1791–1824, including work on a fishing stool. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/96, p. 889]
Harrison, John, 5 Smithy Door, Manchester, cm (1794). [D]
Harrison, John, Corn Mkt, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1796). [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Harrison, John, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Harrison, John, 6 North St, Pentonville, London, chair caner (1808). [D]
Harrison, John, 6 Newton St, High Holborn, London, caner, chair and sofa maker (1808–28). [D]
Harrison, John, 22 Crown Ct, Princes St, Soho, London, cm (1809–11). [D]
Harrison, John, Golborne (or Colborne) St, Warrington, Lancs., chairmaker (1816–25). [D]
Harrison, John, 19 Marklands Row, Bolton, Lancs., chairmaker (1818). [D]
Harrison, John, Gisburn, near Skipton, Yorks., joiner and cm (1822). [D]
Harrison, John, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1823). Son of William Harrison, maltster of Spondon, Derbs.; taken as app. in 1823. [Nottingham app. list]
Harrison, John, Market Pl., Otley, Yorks., joiner and cm (1828–30). [D]
Harrison, John, King St, Thorne, Yorks., joiner and cm (1828–34). [D]
Harrison, John, Church St, Mansfield, Notts., chairmaker (1828–35). [D]
Harrison, John, Meeting House Lane, Chatham, Kent, cm and u (1832–34). [D]
Harrison, John, Bridge St, Belper, Derbs., joiner and cm (1835). [D]
Harrison, John, New St, Walsall, Staffs., cm and u 1834–35). [D]
Harrison, John, Manor-chare, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1838). [D]
Harrison, Jonathan, St Bride's, London, upholder (1719–34). Recorded at ‘Cross Keys’, Fleet Ditch in 1719; and Ditch Side, 1725–34. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 12 October 1719. Fined for non-service at St Bride's in 1725 and 1734. Served as a Questman in 1727. [GL, Sun MS vol. 10, ref. 15416; GL, MS 6561, p. 42] See Harrison, —, at the ‘Cross Keys’.
Harrison, Jonathan, Whitehaven, Cumb., cm (1798–1829). Trading at 77 George St, 1811–29. [D]
Harrison, Jonathan, address unrecorded, turner (1816). Submitted bill to Earl of Strathmore of Gibside and Streatlam, Co. Durham, on 31 August 1816 totalling 18s for ‘turning 2 bed pillars’, ‘8 paterness circular’ and ‘8 paterness oval’. On 14 September he charged 5s for ‘Turning 5 large vases for bed’. [Durham RO, Strathmore MS, D/St/Box 198]
Harrison, Joseph, New Town, Bilston, Staffs., cm (1818). [D]
Harrison, Joseph, 29 Harper St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, with shop at 41 Mulberry St, joiner and cm (1839). [D]
Harrison, Matthew, Ripon, Yorks., cm (1798). [D]
Harrison, Matthew, Union St, Wisbech, Cambs., cm, auctioneer and appraiser (1839). [D]
Harrison, Michael, Drypool, near Hull, Yorks., cm (1818). App. to Robert Waugh in October 1818. [Hull app. reg.]
Harrison, Ralph, 26 Church St, Sunderland, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–29). [D]
Harrison, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1760–61). Petitioned freedom on birthright as son of Samuel S. G. Harrison, blacksmith, paying 3s 4d in 1760. A Richard Harrison was admitted freeman on 28 January 1761, and another on 28 May. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk and reg.]
Harrison, Richard, address unrecorded. In 1776 supplied a tent bed costing £21 2s 4d to Joseph Harrington, steward of the 6th Duke of Bedford's Bloomsbury Estate, who lived in Gt Russell St, London. [J. Harrington's cash bk, Colin Frost, bookseller, 1983]
Harrison, Robert, Poulton, Lancs., spinning-wheel maker (1797–98). [D]
Harrison, Robert, Richmond, Yorks., cm (1820). [PR (bapt.)]
Harrison, Robert, Thorner, near Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Harrison, Robert, Wisbech, Cambs., cm and u (1824–30). Trading at Artillery St in 1824 and Norfolk St West in 1830. [D]
Harrison, Robert, Penny St, Lancaster, chair and bedstead maker (1825). [D]
Harrison, Robert, 78 Norton St, Fitzroy Sq., London, cm (1835). [D]
Harrison, Samuel, Chester, joiner and carver (1720). Took app. named Catherall in 1720. [S of G, app. index]
Harrison, Samuel, Fleet St, St Bride's, London, cm (1767). Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy in July 1767 for £200 on property in Falcon Ct, and £600 on a house in Fleet St. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 106, p. 68]
Harrison, Samuel, 14 Alfred Pl., Newington, London, chair, sofa and stool manufacturer (1820–32). Declared bankrupt in association with Frederick Graham, London Gazette, 2 March 1832. [D]
Harrison, Samuel, Mill St, Leek, Staffs., chairmaker and turner (1834). [D]
Harrison, Samuel, 1 Sussex Pl., Southwark and 84 St George's Rd, London, chair manufacturer (1835). [D]
Harrison, T., Harrington, Workington, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1811–34). [D]
Harrison, Theophilas, Canterbury, Kent, cm and u (1800–38). Trading at Iron Bar Lane in 1818; St Margaret's, 1823–34; and Longport, 1838. Admitted freeman in 1800. [D; poll bk; Canterbury freemen rolls]
Harrison, Thomas, late of Maidstone, Kent, u (d. by 1713?). His son was app. to a baker in 1713. [S of G, app. index]
Harrison, Thomas, Middleham, Yorks., cm (1740). Advertised in York Courant, 21 October 1740 ‘That he makes and sells all Sorts of Cabinet Work, as Chairs, Tables &c either in Mahogany, or otherwise, after the best Italian, French, Dutch or English Fashions at the lowest Rates. N.B. He likewise Carves upon Tables, Chairs &c in the neatest Manner.’
Harrison, Thomas, Church Gate, Loughborough, Leics., cm (1791–95). Advertised auction of furniture and stock in trade, consisting of chairs, tables, beds, clock cases etc., in Leicester Journal, 3 March 1795.
Harrison, Thomas, 3 Bridport St, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1837). [D]
Harrison, W., 1 Hanover Pl., Old Kent Rd, London, u (1835). [D]
Harrison, W. H., 3 Bride Lane, Fleet St, London, carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Harrison, W. H., Bow St, Covent Gdn, London, carver and gilder (1837). [D]
Harrison, Watson, Keswick, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–29). [D] Probably William Watson Harrison.
Harrison, William, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, u (1692–1717). App. to Jacob Tompson, and admitted freeman on 24 February 1692. His son, James Harrison, admitted freeman on 13 November 1717. [Poll bks; Norwich freemen reg.]
Harrison, William, Oxford Rd, London, cm (1749). [Poll bk]
Harrison, William, Ropemakers Alley, Moorfields, London, billiard table maker (1756). Advertised in Public Advertiser, 27 April 1756.
Harrison, William, London, u (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harrison, William, Liverpool, cm (b.1780–d.1824). Addresses given at 3 Clayton Sq. Yd, 42 Wood St in 1827; and 3 Clayton Sq. Yd, 12 Wood St in 1829. Petitioned freedom on birthright as son of Daniel Harrison, cordwainer, in 1806, paying 3s 4d. Admitted freeman on 5 November 1806. Took app. named Samuel Thompson in 1821. Death reported in Liverpool Mercury, 20 February 1824. [D; Liverpool freemen's committee bk. and reg.; app. enrolment bk]
Harrison, William, Diss, Norfolk, cm and u (1812–39). Trading at Crown St, 1830–39. Polled at Colchester, Essex, in 1812, 1820 and 1831. [D]
Harrison, William, Wigan, Lancs., cm (1814–34). Recorded at Queen St, 1814–22, and Wallgate, 1828–34. [D]
Harrison, William, Market St, Chorley, Lancs., cm (1822). [D]
Harrison, William, Bridge St, Warrington, Lancs., cm (1822). [D]
Harrison, William, Egremont, Cleator, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Harrison, William, Keswick, Cumb., cm and/or joiner (1829–32). Recorded as William Watson Harrison at the Forge in 1832. [D] Probably Watson Harrison.
Harrison, William, Tradesmen's Mart, Nottingham, cm and u (1832–35). Recorded at ‘The Mart’ in 1835. [D]
Harrison, William, 88 High St, Ramsgate, Kent, cm (1832–34). [D]
Harrison, William, Fleet St, Bury, Lancs., cm (1834). [D]
Harrison, William, 26 Peach St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Harrison, William, High St, Bridlington, Yorks., cm (1840). [D]
Harrison, William, Hamilton Pl., Chester, cm, chairmaker and u (1840). [D]
Harrison & Jiggs, Bridge St, Horncastle, Lincs., joiners, cm and builders (1819–22). [D]
Harrison, Jonathon & Hill, London, u (1732). Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Harrock, John, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Harrocks (or Horrocks), John, Liverpool, cm and joiner (1780–1813). Addresses given at 17 Edmund St in 1787 and 1794; no. 46, 1790–96, with timber yard at 31 Tithebarn St in 1790; at 45 Edmund St, Old Hall St in 1800; no. 17, 1803–04; and 17 Plumb(e) St, 1805–13. Admitted freeman on 11 September 1780. Marriage to Mrs Nelsa at St Nicholas's Church on 19 December 1789 reported in Liverpool Advertiser, 28 December. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Harrold, Edward, Bath St, Frome, Som., cm (1830). [D]
Harron, C., London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Harrop, Philip snr, Worcester, cm and u (1828–30). Listed at Union St in 1828 and Friar St, 1830. [D]
Harrop, Philip jnr, Worcester, cm and u (1822–40). Recorded at Friar St, 1822–30, no. 9 in 1822; 46 Copenhagen St in 1828; and 21 Mealcheapen St, 1830–40. Admitted freeman in 1826 and named in the Worcester freemen rolls on 1 December 1835. [D] See William Harrop.
Harrop, Sarah, 6 Upper Cleveland St, Fitzroy Sq., London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Harrop, William, 6 Upper Cleveland St, Fitzroy Sq., London, cm and appraiser (1826–27). [D]
Harrop, William, Friar St, Worcester, cm (1826–35). Admitted freeman in 1826, and named in the Worcester freemen rolls on 1 December 1835. See Philip Harrop.
Harroway, John, Greenwich, London, carver and gilder (1791). [D]
Harrowell, William, Rugby, Warks., u and paper hanger (1835). [D]
Harsant, M., 9 Sherborne Lane, Lombard St, London, cm and undertaker (1817). [D]
Harsant, M., 4 Bush Lane, Cannon St, London, carpenter and cm (1820). [D]
Harsant, William, 53 Tower St, Tower Hill, London, undertaker and upholder (1817). [D]
Harstead, John, 10 Lower Coleman St, Bunhill Row, London, cm (1786). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 16 March 1786 for £500 of which utensils etc. accounted for £300. [GL, Sun MS vol. 336, p. 5]
Harston, Standish, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, u (1710). [Poll bk]
Harston, William, Newark, Notts., cm and u (1828–d.1836). Trading at Appletongate, 1828–35, in 1835 also as a paper hanger. Died in 1836 and will proved on 1 July. [D; Notts. RO, probate records]
Hart, A. H., London, cm and u (1829–39). Recorded at 376 Strand in 1829; 350 Oxford St in 1835; 356 Oxford St in 1837; and 3 Dean St in 1839. [D] See Aaron Henry Hart, Aaron Hyam Hart, and Henry Hart.
Hart, Aaron Henry, London, cm, upholder and broker (1804– 07). Addresses given at 37 St Martin's Lane, 1804–05; and 331 corner of Argyle St, Oxford St in 1807. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 14 August 1804 for £700 on utensils and stock in his house, where no cabinet work was done; on 8 February 1805 for £800, £650 on utensils and stock at 4 Greek St, Soho, where no cabinet work was done; and on 28 October 1807 for £1,800, £1,500 on utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 431, refs 764399 and 772607; vol. 441, ref. 809412] See Henry and Hyam Hart. Possibly:
Hart, Aaron Hyam, 58 Greek St, Soho, London, u (1807). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 11 August 1807 for £1,000 of which £850 accounted for household goods at 20 Callum St. [GL, Sun MS vol. 442, ref. 806348]
Hart, Balguy jnr, late of Latonstone, Essex, u (1761). Discharge from Debtors’ Prison announced in London Gazette, 22 August 1761. See Thomas Hart, upholder.
Hart, Charles, 28 Pool Lane, Liverpool, u (1767–75). In 1775 subscribed £1 1s to Mayor's fund for the relief of soldiers and dependents in the American War. [D; Liverpool Advertiser, 17 November 1775]
Hart, Charles, Hull, Yorks., cm and u (1803). App. to John and George Chapman of Hull on 20 June 1803. [Hull app. reg.]
Hart, George, George St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, u (1838). [Poll bk]
Hart, Henry, Liverpool, cm (1816–23). Addresses given at 5 Fore St in 1816; 37 Milton St in 1821; and 7 All Saints Lane, Rose Pl. in 1823. [D]
Hart, Henry, 376 Strand, London, u (1826–27). [D] Probably Aaron Henry Hart.
Hart, Hyam, 37 St Martin's Lane, London, u and cm (1808). [D] Probably Aaron Hyam Hart.
Hart, John, Langport, Som., house carpenter, joiner and cm (1809). Advertised for a workman in Sherborne Mercury, 24 July 1809.
Hart, John, Guildford St, Southwark, London, turner and chairmaker (1807–11). Addresses given at 12 in the Grove, Gt Guildford St, 1807–11; and 11 Little Guildford St in 1810. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 10 August 1807 for £400 of which £150 accounted for utensils and stock; and on 1 January 1810 for £400, £200 on stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 440, ref. 806204; vol. 447, ref. 839213]
Hart, Joseph, 1 Brandon St, Bristol, fancy chair, cornice and glass enameller (1817). [D]
Hart, Joseph, Edgbaston St, Birmingham, cm (1818). [D]
Hart, Mary, Missenden, Bucks., chair manufacturer (1830). [D]
Hart, Peter, 47 Hurst St, Liverpool, cm (1781). [D]
Hart, Peter, 56 Union St, Salford, Lancs., cm (1804–08). [D]
Hart, Richard, Holborn, London, turner (1707). Insured his house for £200 on 19 December 1707. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 5, ref. 1433]
Hart, Robert jnr, Wimborne, Dorset, coach and cm (1782). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1782 for £400 of which £220 accounted for utensils, stock and workshop. [GL, Sun MS vol. 303, p. 119]
Hart, Stephen, Silver St, Cirencester, Glos., cm (1820). [D]
Hart, Thomas, address unrecorded, upholder (1723–30). Son of Baulghy Hart, victualler of Leyton, Essex; app. to James Wolfe on 24 April 1723, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 6 May 1730. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] See Balguy Hart snr.
Hart, Thomas, 2 Broughton St, Salford, Lancs., cm (1817). [D]
Hart, Thomas, Gainford, near Darlington, Co. Durham, joiner, cm and cooper (1827–28). [D]
Hart, Thomas, Appleby, Leics., u (1835). [D]
Hart, Thomas, Barton St, Tewkesbury, Glos., chairmaker (1839). [D]
Hart, William, London, carver (1774–81). Trading at Swallow St, Piccadilly in 1774 and Poland St, St James's, Westminster in 1781. [Bristol poll bks]
Hart, William, Southampton, Hants., cm (d.1790). [Will at Hants. RO]
Hart, William, 15 Hogg Hill, Norwich, cm and chairmaker (1789–1818). Recorded also at 1 Orford St, 1801–02. Admitted freeman, not by apprenticeship, on 13 June 1804. Parson J. Woodforde mentioned him in his diary on 13 November 1789: ‘Bought this day of Will.m Hart, Cabinet Maker on Hog Hill, Norwich 2 large second hand doubleflapped Mahogany Tables, also one second hand Mahogany dressing Table with Drawers, also one new Mahogany Washing-Stand, for all which paid £4. 14. 6., that is for the 2 Tables 2.12.6. Dressing Table 1.11.6. Mahogany WashStand 0.10.6. I think the whole of it to be very cheap.’ [D; poll bks; Norwich freemen reg.; Diary of a Country Parson, 1758–1802, ed. J. Beresford]
Hart, William & John, Market Pl. (or Row), Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, u (1805–07). [D]
Hart, William, 11 Bolsover St, Oxford St, London, carver and gilder (1808). [D]
Hart, William, Tewkesbury, Glos., chairmaker (1818–37). Trading at High St in 1818; Smith's Lane in 1822 as William Shakespeare Hart; Barton St in 1830; and Church St in 1837 when children's births registered. [D; PR]
Hart, William, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm and u (1822–39). Trading at George St, 1822–36; Howard St in 1838; and Gaol St, 1839. [D; poll bk]
Hart, William, Wormgate, Boston, Lincs., cm and joiner (1826). [D]
Hart, William, Stockton-upon-Tees, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–32). Recorded at High St in 1827 and Dovecot St in 1832. [D]
Hart, William, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1811–41). Daughter bapt. in 1835, son in 1837. Aged 30 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Hart & Son, 121 Digbeth, Birmingham, joiners, cm and chairmakers (1805). [D]
Hartdrig, William, 29 Gt Pearl St, Spitalfields, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Harte, George, Shakespeare's House, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks., turner and chairmaker. Grandfather of John Harte, chairmaker. See John Harte.
Harte, Jane, Leamington, Warks., chairmaker. Grand-daughter of George Harte. See John Harte.
Harte, John, Cirencester, Glos., chairmaker (1817). Information about him and his ancestors George and Jane, also chairmakers by trade, published in Chester Guardian and Cambrian Intelligence, 13 December 1817.
Harterton, William, 79 Christian St, Liverpool, cm (1834). [D]
Hartery, George, 29 Peter St, Bath, Som., cm (1826). [D]
Hartforth, John, Low Rd, Sunderland, Co. Durham, cm and joiner (1828–29). [D]
Hartland, Richard, at ‘The King's Head’, St Paul's Churchyard, London, cane chairmaker (1717). Insured ‘Warehouse only in Labour in rain yard on Lambeth Hill’ on 10 December 1717. [GL, Sun MS vol. 7]
Hartland, William snr, 7 Lower Maudlin St, Bristol, carpenter and cm (1805–06). Trading as William & Son in 1806. [D]
Hartland, William jnr, 7 Lower Maudlin St, Bristol, carpenter and cm (1806–09). Trading with his father in 1806. [D]
Hartley, Bernard, Pontefract, Yorks., joiner and cm (1778–96). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1778 for £300, £250 accounting for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 266, p. 255] Submitted bill for beds and mahogany furniture totalling £200 8s 6d supplied between December 1794 and August 1796 to G. Wentworth of Woolley Hall, Yorks. [YAS, Wentworth papers, MD 272/2]
Hartley, Christopher, formerly of Whitehaven, Cumb., now of Kingston, Jamaica, cm (1828). Death of his wife Hannah ‘at Kingston, Jamaica, a few weeks after her arrival in the Island from London’, reported in Liverpool Mercury, 13 February 1828.
Hartley, David, Leeds, Yorks., journeyman cm (1791). Named in the Leeds Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, amongst other journeymen in basic sympathy with its contents. [Furn. Hist., 1974] Probably:
Hartley, David, 38 Hunslet Lane, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1816–26). [D]
Hartley, Edward, Oxford, cm (1798). [D]
Hartley, Edward, Hull, Yorks., wood and ivory turner and bed post carver (1823–26). Trading as a turner in Parade Row, 1823; and at 15 New John St in 1826. [D]
Hartley, George, Bramley's Yd, Lowerhead Row, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1818). [D]
Hartley, George, Broughton-in-Furness, Lancs., chairmaker (1824–28). [D]
Hartley, James, Lancaster, cm (1791–1807). App. to J. Addison in 1791, and admitted freeman, 1806–07, when stated ‘of London’. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hartley, James, Crown St, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1834–40). [D]
Hartley, John, Lewes, Sussex, cm and chairmaker (1762–80). Advertised in Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 3 May 1762 his business ‘At the Shop late Mr. William Kelter's in Lewes, MAKES and sells all Sorts of Desk and Book Cases, Bureaus, Chests of Drawers, Cloath Presses, Dining, Dressing and Tea Tables, Tea Trays, Tea Boards, and Tea Chests, Shaving and Bason Stands, Clock Cases &c. &c. Likewise Looking Glasses of all Sorts, and Variey of Chairs and Cabinet Furniture in the genteelest Manner, and at the most reasonable Rates. N.B. Looking Glasses fram'd and Silver'd.’ Advertised again on 18 March 1771; and on 5 June 1780 a notice regarding bankruptcy proceedings appeared. [Poll bks]
Hartley, John, 23 Paradise St, Finsbury Sq., London, cm, looking-glass frame maker and undertaker (1808). [D]
Hartley, John, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822–34). Addresses given at back of Brook St in 1822; 92 Kirkgate, 1826; 2 East Row, 1830; and the Calls, 1834. [D]
Hartley, John jnr, 16 Orange St, Halifax, Yorks., cm (1837). [D]
Hartley, John, Chipping Campden, Glos., cm and u (1839). [D]
Hartley, Lawrence, 3 Spencer Buildings, Hunter St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1829). [D]
Hartley, Richard, Manchester, carver and gilder (1834–40). Recorded at 7 Fountain St in 1834, 17 Abraham's Ct, 1836, and 11 Cooper St, 1840. [D]
Hartley, Richard, 3 Ramsden St, Huddersfield, Yorks., carver (1837). [D]
Hartley, Robert, Leeds, Yorks., cm and joiner (1822–26). Trading at Leylands in 1822 and 8 Little Bridge St, 1826. [D]
Hartley, Robert, 14 Kirkus’ Buildings, Hull, Yorks., carver and gilder (1838–39). [D]
Hartley, Thomas, Newgate St, London, freeman merchant tailor, carver and gilder (1767–94). Trading at no. 108, 1777–94; with house at 29 Paradise Row, Islington in 1785. Neo-classical trade card shows chimney-piece and oval frame above with husk chains, and reads: ‘Hartley, Carver and Gilder, in Newgate Street, No. 108. Performs all manner of house & furniture Carving, &c. Looking Glasses & frames for Exportation. Prints and Paintings, framed, Cleaned & Lined.’ In 1767 employed four non-freemen for six weeks. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 23 November 1785 for £200 on his house at 29 Paradise Row, Islington; in 1777 for £100 on utensils and stock; and in 1793 for £400 on a house at 6 Warwick Lane in tenure of a coney salesman. [D; Banks Coll., BM; GL, City Licence bks, vol. 5; GL, Sun MS vol. 333, p. 500; vol. 261; p. 395; vol. 392, p. 362] See William Hartley, and Hartley & Son.
Hartley, Thomas, Manchester, chairmaker (1813–39). Addresses given at 177 Gt Newton St in 1813; 177 Oldham Rd in 1817; no. 249 in 1825; and 35 Portland St, 1839. [D]
Hartley, Thomas, Wilsden, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1837). [D]
Hartley, William, 74 Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, gilder (1775). Insured his house for £150 in 1775. [GL, Sun MS vol. 238, p. 313]
Hartley, William, Newgate St, London, case and cm, undertaker (1778–83). Addresses given at no. 80, 1778–79; no. 45, 1779–82; and no. 78 in 1783. Neo-classical trade card gives address at no. 80 and trade as knife-case maker. [BM] Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 2 August 1780. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1779 for £600 on his house; and in 1781 for £600, £500 accounting for utensils and stock. Named in Bailey's list of bankrupts, 1783. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 278, p. 516; vol. 289, p. 410] See Thomas Hartley, and Hartley & Son.
Hartley, William, 23 St James St, Burnley, Lancs., cm and u (1824–25). [D]
Hartley, William, 200 Gt Ancoats St, Manchester, chairmaker (1828). [D]
Hartley, William, Wigton, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–34). Trading in High St, 1828–29, and West St, 1834. [D]
Hartley, William, Smith St, Warwick, cm and u (1835). [D]
Hartley & Littlewood, Upperhead Row, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1817). Possibly the Thomas Littlewood trading alone at Barley Bar in 1818. [D]
Hartley & Son, 108 Newgate St, London, looking-glass and frame makers (1796). [D] See Thomas and William Hartley.
Hartly, Thomas, 6 Bedford Sq., London, carver (1783). Carried out work for Alexander Wedderburn in 1783, receiving payments of £21 10s and £8 8s ‘For Mitcham’. [Scottish RO, A. Wedderburn cash bks, GD164/Box 20/177/2–3]
Hartnall, Andrew, Bridgewater, Som., cm (1759–61). Took app named Hutchens in 1759 and Shanock in 1761. [S of G, app. index]
Hartridge, John, Maidstone, Kent, upholder (1734). [Poll bk]
Hartridge, W., Woodbridge, Suffolk, cm (1809). Notice in Ipswich Journal, 3 June 1809.
Hartshorn, J., High St, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1786–98). [D]
Hartshorn, Michael, 40 Campo Lane, Sheffield, Yorks., cm and u (1828–33). [D]
Hartshorne, George, Broseley, Salop, cm (1822–35). Recorded as George jnr, 1822–28. [D]
Hartstongue, Robert, Norwich, u (1710). His son, Standish, admitted freeman on 6 September 1710. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Hartstongue, Standish, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, u (1710–d.1717). Son of Robert Hartstongue; admitted freeman on 6 September 1710. Will proved in 1717. [Norwich freemen reg. and poll bk; Norfolk Record Soc., index of wills]
Harvey, —, address unrecorded. Received payments for furniture from 2nd Viscount Palmerston at Broadlands, Hants. [C. Life, 29 January 1981, p. 290]
Harvey, Benjamin, Canterbury, Kent, cm (1796–1830). Trading in Broad St, 1818 and 1830, and St Paul's, 1826. Listed as freeman in 1796. [Poll bks; Canterbury freemen rolls]
Harvey, C., Worthington's Lane, Dover, Kent, cm (1831). [D]
Harvey, Charles, London, freeman u (1714–20). Trading at ‘The Cross Keys’, Ludgate Hill, 1714–17; moved to Salisbury Sq. on 15 April 1719; and Hind Ct, Fleet St on 22 August 1720. Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 22 July 1714 with the Sun Co. Fined for non-service at St Bride's in 1717, in which year he was named in newspapers. [GL, Sun MS vol. 4, ref. 4239; GL, MS 6561, p. 21; Heal]
Harvey, Charles, Colchester, Essex, cm (1830–31). [Poll bks]
Harvey, Christopher, Colchester, Essex, cm (1806). [Poll bk]
Harvey, Christopher jnr, Colchester, Essex, cm (1812–20). [Poll bks]
Harvey, Edward, Chester, upholder (1747). [Poll bk]
Harvey, George, Frodsham, Cheshire, chairmaker (1822–34). [D]
Harvey, George, 647 Steep Hill, Lincoln, cm, u and furniture broker (1841). [D]
Harvey (or Harvie), Harwar, or Harwar, Harvey, Chester, u (1736–59). Son of Lucretia Harvie, widow; app. to Abner Scoles, u, and admitted freeman on 9 October 1736. Polled in 1747. Took apps named John Stringer in 1749, Thomas Garratt in 1754 and Brown in 1759. [Chester freemen rolls and app. bks; S of G, app. index]
Harvey, Henry, Marylebone, London, upholder (1792). [Bailey's list of bankrupts]
Harvey, Henry, Falmouth, Cornwall, cm (1809). Purchased property in the parish of Stithians. [Cornwall RO, DD WH 3182] See Harvey & Son.
Harvey, Henry, 25 Holywell Lane, London, chair and sofa maker (1822–28). [D]
Harvey, Henry, Oaten Hill, Canterbury, Kent, cm (1830). [Poll bk]
Harvey, Henry, 11 Artillery St, Bishopsgate, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Harvey, James & Edward, Church St, Penzance, Cornwall, cm etc. (1823–30). Recorded also in North St, 1824. [D]
Harvey, John, King's Lynn, Norfolk, u (1681–82). App. to Daniel Goodwyn, u, and admitted freeman, 1681–82. [King's Lynn freemen's calendar]
Harvey, John, Helston, Cornwall, cm (1793). Named with others regarding lease of property in Perran Sands, dated 27 and 28 December 1793. [Cornwall RO, DD SHM 435/1–2]
Harvey, John, 12 Brunswick St, Liverpool, cm (1827). [D]
Harvey, Richard, Hull, Yorks., cm, paper hanger and broker (1814–26). Trading at 7 New Dock St in 1814; 18 Postern Gate, 1817–23, and no. 17 in 1826. [D]
Harvey, Richard, High Gate, Hawkhurst, Kent, cm and carpenter (1838). [D]
Harvey, Robert, King St, London, carver (1784). [Poll bk]
Harvey, Robert, Witham, Essex, cm and upholder (1784). [D]
Harvey, Robert, Aylsham, Norfolk, carver and gilder (1822–d.1842). Trading in Hungate St, 1830. Will proved at Norwich in 1842. [D; Norfolk Record Soc., index of wills]
Harvey, Samuel, 10 George St, Derby, cm and u (1835). [D]
Harvey, Thomas, King's Lynn, Norfolk, cm (1776–77). App. to James Lyther, cm; admitted freeman, 1776–77. [King's Lynn freemen's calendar]
Harvey, Thomas, 56 Ratcliff Highway, London, u (1829). [D]
Harvey, William, Liverpool, cm and u (1794–1827). Addresses given at Tempest Hey in 1794; 23 Haymarket in 1805; no. 22, 1807–11; 16 Brunswick Pl. with shop at 3 Spitalfields, 1813–14; 10 Brunswick Pl., 1818; no. 12, 1821–33; 13–14 Brunswick St in 1824; 58 London Rd. and 16 Brunswick Rd in 1827. Marriage to Miss Donnelly at St Nicholas's Church on 2 March 1794 reported in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 3 March. Petitioned freedom as son of Joseph Harvey, baker, in 1796, paying 3s 4d. Admitted freeman on 27 May 1796. Took apps named George Peers and Thomas Howard in 1803, petitioned freedom in 1812; John Allen in 1804 and Joseph Robinson in 1805, both petitioned freedom in 1812; William Brown in 1808, petitioned freedom in 1816; Robert Summers in 1810, petitioned in 1818; George Brown and Daniel Keating in 1811, petitioned in 1818; Thomas Kneen in 1815, petitioned in 1822; John McMay in 1816, petitioned in 1823; and Henry Davies in 1817, petitioned in 1824. Took apps named Richard Smith in 1818; Henry Seddon in 1820; John Evans in 1822; Thomas Davies in 1823; and Richard Seddon in 1824. [D; Liverpool freemen's committee bk and app. enrolment bk] Possibly two tradesmen of the same name are concerned here.
Harvey, William Henry, 1 Portland Row, Morice Town, Devonport, Devon, cm and u (1830). [D]
Harvey, William, Damgate St, Wymondham, Norfolk, cm and chairmaker (1830–39). [D]
Harvey, William, on the Mount, Ipswich, Suffolk, cm and u (1839). [Poll bk]
Harvey & Son, Falmouth, Cornwall, cm (1805). [D] See Henry Harvey.
Harvy, John, Liverpool, cm (1757). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Josiah Baxendale in 1757, paying 6s 8d. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Harwell, Thomas jnr, Bristol, cm and sworn measurer (1805– 21). Trading at 8 Newfoundland St in 1805; 3 Grove, 1809– 13; 4 King St in 1814; and 3 Grove, 1815–21. [D]
Harwick, Asty, King's Lynn, Norfolk, u (1743–60). App. to Thomas Preston, u; admitted freeman, 1743–44. Former apps admitted freemen: Robinson Crusoe, 1754–55, and John Chadwick jnr, 1759–60. [King's Lynn freemen's calendar] See Asty Hardwick.
Harwick, Thomas, King's Lynn, Norfolk, u (1689–99). Admitted freeman by apprenticeship, 1698–99. [King's Lynn freemen's calendar]
Harwin, Robert, Swaffham, Norfolk, cm (1795–98). [D; poll bk]
Harwood, Abraham, 16 Wenrose Sq., London, u (1789). [D]
Harwood, J., 49 Rosoman St, Clerkenwell, London, cm etc. (1835). [D]
Harwood, James, 20 Stanley St, Liverpool, cm and furniture broker (1837). [D]
Harwood, John, 51 Spring Gdns, Bolton, Lancs., joiner and cm (1818). [D]
Harwood, John, Liverpool, cm (1827–39). Trading at 10 Poplar Lane in 1827; 18 Stanley St, 1829–37; and no. 35 in 1839. [D]
Harwood, John Philip snr, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1796). Father of John Philip Harwood jnr, cm. [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Harwood, John Philip jnr, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1830). Son of John Philip Harwood snr, cm. [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Harwood, Richard, 23 Hanway St, London, broker, carver and gilder (1775). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1775 for £500 of which utensils, stock and goods accounted for £300. [GL, Sun MS vol. 243, p. 348]
Harwood, Samuel, 79 Leman St, Goodman's Fields, London, u (1809–11). [D] See Harwood & Allen.
Harwood, Thomas, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, u (1729–61). Son of Thomas Harwood, Esq., admitted freeman on 26 April 1729. [Norwich freemen rolls and poll bks]
Harwood, Thomas, 125 Bishopsgate St Without, London, upholder and cm (1781–83). Son of William Harwood, upholder of Brick Lane, Spitalfields; app. to his father on 5 February 1772, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 4 April 1781. Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1781 for £1,000 of which £800 accounted for utensils and stock. Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Advertiser, 10 and 29 April 1783. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 290, p. 635] See William Harwood.
Harwood, William, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, u (1771–84). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 3 April 1771. Took his son, Thomas, as app., 1772–81, when admitted freeman. Insured house with Robert Woodgate, Esq., for £500 in 1775. Took out Sun Insurance policies with Thomas Harwood in 1780 for £1,500, £1,000 on utensils and stock; and in 1783 Ann Hayden at William Harwood's, upholder, 55 Brick Lane, insured houses for £1,600. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 240, p. 610; vol. 281, p. 99; vol. 317, p. 515] See Harwood & Allen.
Harwood, William, 18 Conduit St, London, carver and gilder (1794). On 10 April 1794 receipted bill of Mary Cowper for pottery supplied to Sir John Nelthorpe. [Lincoln RO, NEL VIII/13]
Harwood & Allen, Wellclose Sq., London, cm (1790–93). May be related to Samuel and William Harwood in the nearby Goodman's Fields and Spitalfields. [D]
Harwood & Haines, 9 Grosvenor Rd, Chelsea, London, u (1826–27). [D]
Haselden, —, Lancaster, cm (1795). Death of his wife on 25 April reported in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 27 April 1795.
Haselden, William, Soup St, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs., painter and gilder (1824). [D]
Haselton, William, Cheltenham, Glos., cm (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £200, utensils, stock and goods accounting for £50. [GL, Sun MS vol. 261, p. 583]
Hasert, Peter, London, cm and looking-glass maker (1692–1746); Hasert, Peter, cm and looking-glass maker (1746–51). In June 1692 Hasert, sometimes called Hazard, was fined as a Papist for refusing the oath of fidelity. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Middlx session bk 498, pp. 76–79] He was then working as a cabinet-maker in Long Acre. He is next noted in 1720 as working for Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661–1724), when his address was ‘at the Hen & Chickens in Great Queen Street’, premises occupied by a cm named Davis in 1710. [Heal] Hasert worked for Harley at his London library in Dover St and at Wimpole Hall, Cambs., and continued to work for Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689–1741) until at least 1725. In early 1720 Robert Harley employed a cm named Bridgewater, whom Hasert may have succeeded. Hasert's work, as recorded by Harley's librarian, Humfrey Wanley, involved maintenance, the making of pedestals for statues, book-presses, drawers for coins, and the packing of books for transport. Wanley also reveals that in 1724 Hasert gave as an excuse for delay that ‘one of his Men is gone beyond the seas’. In July 1722 Wanley received the upholsterer Humfrey Skelton, who wished to inspect the disposition of the presses at Dover St on behalf of Robert Myddleton of Chirk Castle, who was planning to build a library there, and in April 1723 he was visited by Ellis Roberts, the joiner, who came to inspect some of the book presses, having been commissioned to make some more for the Earl of Oxford; on both occasions works by Hasert may have served as potential models. On 31 August 1724 Hasert, described as cabinet and looking-glass maker (Wanley also hints at the latter activity), insured his goods and merchandize for £200 and on 31 October his goods, merchandize and dwelling house for £800. [GL, Sun MS vol. 13] In 1722 and 1725 Hasert worked for Rebecca Tufnell of Langleys; in 1726 he was a supplier to Tredegar House, Mons.; in 1727–29 he worked for Sir William Monson and Lord Monson; and in 1735 for Lady Fortescue, born a Huddleston and therefore a recusant. The next reference [Heal] is to Hasert's involvement, with other tradesmen, in an elaborate hoax played on Hulton the printseller in Pall Mall in 1744. This may, however, refer to his future successor of the same name, as Hasert must have been old for jokes by then, and died in early July 1746 in Paris ‘on his intended journey for Italy’: he was then described as ‘a very eminent Cabinet Maker near Lincoln's Inn Fields’. [General Advertiser, 16 July 1746] This absence abroad so soon after 1745 raises the suspicion that Hasert may have been not only a Papist, but also a Jacobite. His business came to an end in 1751 when the following announcement appeared in the London Evening Post, 13–16 April: ‘To be sold by Hand, at the Hen & Chickens in Great Queen Street, near Lincoln's Inn Fields, on Thursday the 18th instant, and the following Days, The general Stock in Trade of Mr Peter Hasert, Cabinet and Looking Glass Maker; also the Materials for grinding and silvering Looking Glass, and the Benches and Tools for Cabinet-makers. All will be sold cheap, he leaving off Trade. The Household Goods will also be sold.’
DOVER ST, London and WIMPOLE HALL, Cambs. (Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford, and Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford). 1720–25: Sixty mentions in the diary of Humfrey Wanley, librarian to the first and second Earls of Oxford. [C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright (ed.), The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715–1726, 1966, 1, 70–71, 109, 128, 130, 183; 11, 213, 220, 249, 260–61, 266, 285, 291–92, 301–02, 304, 312, 314–16, 318–24, 327, 344–45, 351, 353, 356–58, 363]
LANGLEYS, Essex (Rebecca Tufnell). 1722 and 1725: account book entries, the first 19s for ‘Mounting a Screen’, the second is for ‘Japaning a Tea Table Black’. [Essex RO, D/D Tu278]
TREDEGAR HOUSE, Mons. (Sir William Morgan). 1726: Payment ‘Cabinet Maker £79.0.0, Mr Hasert the cabinet maker £4.14.6’. [Nat. Lib. Wales, Tredegar papers, MS 315–45]
BURTON HALL, Lincs. (Sir William Monson, Bt, and John, 1st Baron Monson). 1727–29: Bills. One bill dated 24 July 1727, headed ‘Work done for the Honble. Sr Willm Monson’, who died in 1726/27, for ‘Makeing a dineing table of your own mahogany’, etc., £1 18s 6d, receipted 1728. One bill dated 1729 to Lord Monson ‘For a mahogany table on a pillow & claw the top 24 inches overturned £1.10.0’. [Lincoln RO, Monson 11/50]
SAWSTON HALL, Cambs. (Lady Fortescue). 1735–36 Bill to ‘the Honble Lady Fortescue’ (Mary, daughter of Richard Huddleston’, total £13 6s, including (February 1735/36) a mahogany corner table, a large mahogany voyder, a dressing glass in a walnut frame, and (May 1736) ‘A Sconce in a tabernacle frame carV&Apos;d and guilt … with a pair of brass branches’. [Cambs. RO, Sawston Hall accounts] S.J.
Haskens, Joseph, Bristol, u (1713). Took app. named Crump in 1713. [S of G, app. index].
Hasker, Ann, 11 Marshall St, Carnaby Mkt, London, u (1784). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1784 for £100, utensils, and stock accounting for £50. [GL, Sun MS vol. 322, p. 641]
Haskins, Edward, Bristol, u (1734). [Poll bk]
Haskins, James, Bristol, cm (1754). [Poll bk]
Haslegrave, Benjamin, Heath, near Wakefield, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Haslehurst (or Hazehurst, Hazelhurst or Hazlehurst), Samuel, Liverpool, chairmaker (1769–1834). Addresses given at 21 Paradise St, 1769–87; no. 24 in 1790; as S. Hazehurst, stained chair warehouse, Manesty's Lane, 1781–90; 43 Paradise St, 1813–14; and 14 Wellington St, 1829–34. Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1776 for £300, workshop, utensils and stock accounting for £150. Sale of land fronting Manesty's Lane, ‘now used as a yard by Samuel Haslehurst, chairmaker’, announced in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 1 August 1782. Declared bankrupt, Derby Mercury, 13 February 1794. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 247, p. 129] Probably two tradesmen of the same name are concerned here.
Haslep, Peter, Foundry Lane, Warrington, Lancs., cm (1828). [D]
Hasler, Thomas, 6 East St, Finsbury Mkt, London, japan furniture maker (1829–39). [D]
Haslet, David, 15 St James's St, Liverpool, cm (1807). [D]
Haslewood, Henry, Bridgnorth, Salop, cm (1751). Took app. named Cartwright in 1751. [S of G, app. index]
Haslop, Isaac, Radford, Worksop, Notts., cm (1835). [D]
Hason(?), Thomas, address unrecorded. On 26 April 1783 received £10 10s for a set of dining tables supplied to Sir John Nelthorpe. [Lincoln RO, NEL 9/5/15]
Hassall, Charles, formerly of Whitehaven, Cumb., joiner and cm (1831). His eldest daughter's marriage on 17 July 1831 to Ross McIntyre at St Martin-in-the-Fields reported in Liverpool Mercury, 22 July 1831.
Hassall (or Hassell), Samuel, 23 Bull Green, Halifax, Yorks., carver and gilder (1834–47). Three carved mirrors recorded as by Hassall, two in the Rococo revival style, c. 1830–40, bearing label. Undated trade card also known. [Christie's NY, 30 June 1979, lot 90, illus.; Conn., August 1963, p. xii; C. Life, 3 October 1974, pp. 932–33]
Hassall, Thomas, address unrecorded, upholder (1706). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 7 August 1706. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hassall (or Hassell), William, 13 Greengate St, Salford, Lancs., carver and gilder (1832–33). Recorded as William jnr in 1833. [D]
Hassan, George, London, carver (1749–74). Recorded at Little Newport St in 1749 and Thatched House in 1774. Provided picture frames for Sir Edward Knatchbull of Mersham-LeHatch, Kent, in 1772: seven costing £38 11s 9d, and nine, £24 2s 2d. [Westminster poll bks; Kent RO, U.951, A.18/68–69]
Hassocks, Nathaniel, 31 Brighton Pl., Brighton, Sussex, carver and gilder (1823). [D]
Hastings, John, Oxford, cm (1729). Took app. named Smith in 1729. [S of G, app. index]
Hastings, John, Spilsby, Lincs., joiner and cm (1826–35). [D]
Hastrick, John, 16 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, cm (1829). [D]
Haswell, William, Bowser's Yd, Market Pl., Morpeth, Northumb., joiner and cm (1827–29). [D]
Hatch, Edward, 442 High St, Cheltenham, Glos., cm, u and carpet manufacturer (1820). [D]
Hatch, John, High Holborn, London, cm (1763). [D]
Hatch, Joseph, Robert St, Bedford Row, London, cm (1802). Notice regarding bankruptcy proceedings in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 21 June 1802.
Hatch, William, Norwich, cm (1793–98). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D]
Hatch, William Proctor, Norwich, cm (1808–30). App. to William De Caux, cm; admitted freeman on 24 September 1808. [Norwich freemen reg.; poll bk]
Hatcher, Charles, Tarrant St, Arundel, Sussex, chairmaker (1839). [D]
Hatcher, Robert, Southampton, Hants., cm (1823–39). Trading at 108 High St, 1823–24, and Behind the Walls, 1836–39. [D]
Hatchwell, Robert, East St, Newton Abbott, Devon, cm (1823– 38). [D]
Hathaway, John Hankin, address unrecorded, upholder (1756). Son of Thomas Hathaway, freeman upholder of London. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 3 Jun 1756. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hathaway, Thomas, address unrecorded, upholder (1726–d. by 1756). Son of John Hathaway, freeman barber-surgeon of London; app. to John Howard jnr and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 6 July 1726. Took apps named John Hodges, 1727–30, and Thomas Denham, 1735–41. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hathwell, —, London, frame maker (1781). Charles Towneley of Towneley Hall, Lancs., paid Hathwell £10 10s for frames for two ‘Views’ by da Costa on 3 March 1781. [Towneley's account bk, private ownership]
Hathwell, J., facing the Dial Slip, Broad Quay, Bristol, frame maker (c.1800). Printed label recorded on back of small rectangular gilt frame with bead moulding, c.1800, in the V&A Museum. Label reads ‘Gold enamelling on glass… frames for glasses, pictures & drawings mounted…black frames in a new style…’. [V&A archives]
Hathwell, John, King St, Westminster, London, carver and gilder (1767–68). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., October 1767, and notice regarding bankruptcy proceedings in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 1 January 1768.
Hathwell (or Hatherwell), Thomas, 17 High St, Bloomsbury, London, japan chair and sofa maker (1820–28). Recorded alone and also as Hathwell & Pastor. [D]
Hatley, Thomas, London, upholder (1706–23). Recorded in the Drury Lane area, 1722. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 2 October 1706. Took app. named John Fox, 1708– 23. Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy in 1722 for £475 on three houses, let. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 26, p. 318]
Hat(t)ley, William, Belford, Northumb., joiner and cm (1827–34). [D]
Hatley & Purves, High St, Berwick, Northumb., cm and u (1828–29). [D]
Hatt, John, Aldersgate St, London, cm, chairmaker and glass grinder (1759–79). Trading at no. 23, 1767–73; and no. 142, 1774–79. Rococo trade card, 1759, gives address at ‘The Blue Ball & Artichoke’, Aldersgate St, and states that Hatt is successor to John Arrowsmith, and ‘Makes & Sells all Sorts of Comodes & Book Cases, Desk & Book Cases, Library Cases, Chests of Drawers, Cloaths Presses, Bedsteads, Comodes, Dressing & Tea Tables & all manner of Chairs & Cabinet work. Likewise does Upholstery work in the neatest manner. Also Blinds for Windows & Spring Curtains, Looking Glasses of all Sorts, Coach Glasses & Lanthorns. Variety of Gothic & Chinese work in Chairs & Cabinet furniture made up and Sold Wholesale and Retail at very reasonable Rates, & for Exportation. NB. Funerals Furnishd.’ [D; Heal]
Hattlebarrow, Samuel, 39 Little Lever St, Manchester, chairmaker (1825). [D]
Hatton, Edward, 5 Kirkman Pl., Tottenham Ct Rd, London, carver (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 17 November 1792 for £100. [GL, Sun MS vol. 379, ref. 607302]
Hatton, John, Lancaster, u (1811–12). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hatton, John, Liverpool, cm (1825). App. to William Atkinson in 1825. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Hatton, Leonard, Broker's Row, Moorfields, London, cm and u (1778–93). Recorded at no. 13, 1790–93. Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1778 with William Gough for £700 on warehouse, utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 268, p. 37]
Hatton, Thomas, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1790–91 and 1802, including work on a table. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/98, p. 1713]
Haugh, John, Carlisle, Cumb., u (1793–1810). Trading in Market Pl., 1810. [D]
Haughton, George, London, later Philadelphia, USA, u (before 1775). Advertised in Penn'a Packet, 30 January 1775 that he was ‘Lately from London’ and ‘has taken a house in Secondstreet … where he proposes to follow the Upholstery business in all its various branches. As he has had the advantage of serving a regular apprenticeship to that trade in one of the most capital shops in London, and of working in most of the others, and has done the principal work some time in this city for Mr. Webster, he does not doubt of giving satisfaction to those Ladies and Gentlemen that will please to employ him in any part of the business … He makes the new fashion'd French corner chairs, conversation stools, sofas, Venetion window blinds, and bedsteads of all sorts; Fringe line Tossels made to any pattern or quality, on the shortest notice.’ Repeated the advertisement in Penn'a Gazette, 22 March 1775, adding ‘rooms neatly papered, and ship cabins fitted up in the neatest manner, chairs, sofas, &c. stuffed on very low terms for Cabinet-makers, in exchange for cabinet goods … Any Merchant that has a quantity of paper hangings may meet with a purchaser, by applying as above.’ Advertised for an app. in Penn'a Evening Post, 18 May 1776, and announced that he had moved to premises in Front St ‘where he makes and sells every article in the upholstery business. Likewise makes and sells drums, colours, tent bedsteads, chairs, stools, tables, mattresses, markees, and every other article necessary for the military …’. Advertised again in the same paper on 14 October 1777 as ‘formerly a workman to Mr. Trotter in London’; and in Penn'a Packet, 16 April 1782 that he ‘has again entered into his former business’ in Front St, presumably after a break. He again described his trade, adding ‘he has followed the Upholstery Business for some years, in this city, very extensively and with general applause, both for his workmanship and low charges …’. [Walpole Soc., 1929]
Haughton, Thomas, Stamford, Lincs., u (1735). Admitted freeman in 1735 on payment of £15. [Stamford freemen rolls]
Haughton & Cranburn, Oxford St, London, upholders and cm (1765). [D]
Haupt, Georg, resident in London 1767 or 1768–69, cm (b. 1741–d. 1784). Georg Haupt was born in Stockholm on 10 August 1741. His father, Elias Haupt, was a master cm whose position in the Cabinet-Makers’ Guild appears to have entitled his son to preferential treatment. The young man was app. at thirteen, some nine months before he was eligible, to a leading Swedish cm, Johan Conrad Eckstein. His apprentice ship lasted for five years only, from 1754–59 after which he was given temporary work with Eckstein's uncle, Friedrich Eckstein, Master of the Cabinet-Makers’ Guild.
The significant years of his career, in so far as his work in London is concerned, were those he spent as a journeyman. His first visit was to Germany in 1760. Then, together with his future brother-in-law, Christopher Fuhrlohg he set off in 1762 to Amsterdam, moving on in 1764 to Paris. It is not known for whom the two young men worked in Amsterdam but evidence suggests that they were employed in Paris in the workshop of Simon Oeben, brother of Jean-François. The basis for this suggestion is the existence of a bureau plat, signed by Haupt. [Institut Géographique National, Paris] The inscription on the piece in red chalk reads: ‘George Haupt Suedois a fait cet bureau a Chanteloup 1767.’ The desk bears the inventory mark of the Château de Chanteloup, country seat of the Duc de Choiseul, Simon Oeben's foremost patron. It is of solid mahogany and, for such an early date, severely Neo-classical in style. A writing desk and filing cabinet [Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours] also bears the inventory marks of the Château de Chanteloup. These pieces, decorated with marquetry in a geometrical design, have been attributed to Simon Oeben. Svend Eriksen has expressed the view, however, that their quality is not such as to justify an attribution to the French master and that they may, more probably, have been made by the young journeyman, Georg Haupt, while he was working at Chateloup in 1766–67. A study of the signed bureau plat and the writing desk and filing cabinet [illus. Svend Eriksen, op. cit., below] throws light on the experience of the newly emerging Neo-classical style that Haupt had gained in Paris.
Meanwhile, in the Summer of 1766, Haupt's nephew, the painter Elias Martin, had arrived in Paris to join his two compatriots. Christopher Fuhrlohg was the first to move on to London. Elias Martin and Haupt followed either at the end of 1767 or early in 1768. It may have been in Paris or after their arrival in London that Martin painted a portrait of his uncle, now in the possession of the Nodiska Museet, Stockholm. It shows the young man, in lace cravat and blue silk waistcoat, seated casually at a carved and gilt table with an open book and a pair of compasses in his hands. [illus. Lagerquist, op. cit.]
There were two points of contact of which Haupt made use on his arrival in London. The first was the Swedish Church where the young cm received communion, according to the church records, on 7 February 1768. The second was the architect, William Chambers, who had been born in Sweden and is known to have kept closely in touch with Swedish immigrants and visitors to England. He was also on good terms with the Swedish Court and subsequently, in 1772, was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of the Polar Star. Haupt's relationship with Chambers is documented by the only piece of furniture (now in the V & A) definitely known to have been made by him while he was in England. This is a small square satinwood table with one drawer, inlaid with laurel festoons, the top consisting of nine specimen plaques of coloured marbles. It is inscribed beneath in ink ‘Cette table a été Commandé et Dessiné par Mr. Chambers Premier Architect de Sa Majesté Britannique et executé par son très humble Serviteur George Haupt Suedois, Londres le 4 Fevrier 1769’. [illus. Hayward and Kirkham]
Haupt may have set up his own workshop in London but there is no evidence to support this view. There is, however, evidence that Christopher Fuhrlohg was employed for a limited period by John Linnell at his Berkeley Sq. workshop until he eventually set up on his own at 24 Tottenham Ct Rd. There are grounds for suggesting that Haupt may have joined his friend in working for John Linnell for the short time which he spent in England. Fuhrlohg's connection with John Linnell is established elsewhere. This connection very probably originated through William Chambers since Chambers and the Linnell firm had both been employed by the Child family at Osterley Park, Middlx. When Fuhrlohg, and then Haupt, arrived in England, John Linnell was engaged upon furnishing the Library at Osterley Park. Of the pieces provided and still in the Library, the two bureaux plats are essentially French in character. The large pedestal desk is richly inlaid with laurel wreaths, heavy oak-leaf swags and urns with stiff, angular handles. All these motifs can be paralleled in Haupt's work executed in Sweden after his return to his own country. [Lagerquist, op. cit.] They were certainly not then part of the repertoire of marquetry ornament used by John Linnell. One further piece supplied to Osterley at the same time is even more relevant in pointing to Haupt's authorship: the fallfront medal cabinet made for Robert Child and still in the possession of Lord Jersey, descendant of the family. [illus. Hayward and Kirkham] This is inlaid with motifs such as diaper patterns, medallions with heavy swags looped and suspended into heart-shaped surrounds and urns set on pedestals with high, angular handles. These features occur in Haupt's work and, in particular, on a writing-table and filing cabinet made by Haupt for the King of Sweden in 1770. [The Royal Palace, Stockholm, illus. Hayward and Kirkham] There are hardly such telling parallels between the Osterley pieces and the known pieces made subsequently by Fuhrlohg in England although both Swedish cm may have been involved. Their shared experiences came to an end when Haupt was informed by the Swedish envoy, Gustav Adam von Nolcken on 1 August 1769 of his appointment in Sweden as Ebeniste du Roi. His work in England must have been outstanding to warrant such an appointment. The Osterley pieces are certainly of the highest quality and if, indeed, they were his work, they would surely have demonstrated his skill. [M. Lagerquist et M. Jarry, ‘Note sur une table d’ébéniste George Haupt découverte en France’, Revue de l'Art Français, 1953, pp. 239–40; G. de Bellaigue, ‘English Marquetry's debt to France’, C. Life, 13 June 1968; J. Hayward, ‘Christopher Fürlohg, an Anglo-Swedish Cabinet-Maker’, Burlington, CXI, 1969, 648–55; J. Harris, Sir William Chambers, Knight of the Polar Star, London, 1970; C. Streeter, ‘Marquetry furniture by a brilliant London Master’, Met. Museum Bulletin, June 1971, pt 1, pp. 418–29; J. Hayward, ‘A newly discovered commode signed by Christopher Fürlohg’, Burlington, CXIV, 1972, 704–12; E. Andrén, Snickare Schatullmakare och Ebenister i Stockholm, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, 1973; S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974; J. Hayward, ‘A further note on Christopher Fürlohg’, Burlington, CXIX, 1977, 486–93; H. Lagerquist, Georg Haupt Ebéniste du Roi, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, 1979; H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, 1980] H.H.
Hauxwell, —, Coppergate, York, cm (1773). Advertised in York Courant, 23 November 1773. [Furn. Hist., 1971] Possibly William Hawkswell (or Hawxwell).
Havard, James, 48 John St, Fitzroy Sq., London, carpenter, joiner and cm (1808). [D]
Have, Thomas, 24 Lambeth Rd, London, chair and sofa maker (1827–28). [D]
Haven, Edward, Liverpool, u (1761–1802). Admitted freeman in 1761. His son, Edward Haven, mariner, born 1763, petitioned freedom on birthright in 1802. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Haven, Margaret, 32 Chorley St, Liverpool, u (1790). [D]
Havre, John, address unrecorded, picture frame maker (1741). A Hugenot, he supplied frames for Petworth House, Sussex, in 1741. [C. Life, 25 September 1980, p. 1030]
Haw, William, address unrecorded, carpenter (1812). He repaired and adapted kitchen furniture at a total cost of £101 15s for the 6th Duke of Bedford at the time of the latter's move from Stanhope St to Hamilton Pl., London, on about 10 March 1812. [Bedford Office, London]
Haward (or Hayward), William, London, chairmaker (1812–31). [Colchester poll bks]
Hawes, Edmund, High Wycombe, Bucks., chair caner (1827–32). Sons bapt. in 1827, 1829, 1830 and 1832. [PR (bapt.)]
Hawes, James, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798). [Militia Census]
Hawes, M., 2 Eldon Pl., Islington, London, cm (1826–27). [D]
Hawes, Mary, 2 Lower St, Islington, London, cm and u (1827– 28). [D]
Hawes, Samuel, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hawes, Thomas, 184 Holiwell St, London, u (1784). [D]
Hawes, William, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798–1839). Listed in the Militia Census, 1798. Sons bapt. in 1835 and 1839. [PR (bapt.)]
Hawey, —, St Columb, Cornwall, cm (1798). [D]
Hawford, James, at ‘The Blue Boar’, Cornhill, London, cm (1710–18). Submitted bill, dated 22 November 1710, to Sir Gilbert Heathcote for five glass sconces at 10s, and three at 15s. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 18 October 1717 for his house; and on 6 November 1718 for goods and merchandise in his house at Enfield, Middlx. [Lincoln RO, 2 ANC 12.d.5; GL, Sun MS vol. 7; vol. 8, ref. 12516]
Hawitt, William, Newton-upon-Ouse, Yorks., cm (1774). Son of William Hawitt, baker; admitted freeman of York in 1774. [York freemen rolls and poll bk]
Hawke, Richard, St Day, Cornwall, chairmaker (1830). [D]
Hawker, George, Bristol, upholder (1774–1817). Trading at 9 Norfolk St, 1809–12, and no. 21, 1813–17. [D; poll bks]
Hawker, John, 5 Old St, London, cm (1808). [D]
Hawkes, Henry, London, cm (1818). [Norwich poll bk]
Hawkes, Thomas, Cross Lane, Long Acre, London, carver (1779). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1779 for £200 of which £50 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 278, p. 490]
Hawkesford, William, 30 Whittal St, Birmingham, cm (1839). [D]
Hawkesworth, William, 32 Newman St, Oxford St, London, appraiser and u (1817–19). [D]
Hawking, Abraham, 114 Whitechapel Rd, London, bedstead and cm (1809–11). [D]
Hawkings, —, 6 Lisson Grove North, London, u (1835). [D] Probably John Hawkins.
Hawkins, —, at ‘The Royal Bed’, New Bond St, Hanover Sq., London, upholder, cm and sworn appraiser (d. by 1767). Rococo trade card continues: ‘Makes & Sells all sorts of Upholstery Goods &c. And furnishes Funerals Public or Private at Reasonable Rates.’ Bill on back of card dated 23 November 1767 from Elizabeth Hawkins, perhaps the tradesman's widow. [Heal] Possibly John Hawkins.
Hawkins, —, Norwich, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. Possibly Parker or Robert Hawkins.
Hawkins, —, 89 Gt Titchfield St, Oxford Mkt, London, cm etc. (1820). [D]
Hawkins, Alexander, Norfolk St, King's Lynn, Norfolk, working u (1836–39). Recorded at no. 113 in 1836 and no. 103 in 1839. [D]
Hawkins, Benjamin, Chelsea, London, cm (1793). [D]
Hawkins, Captain, address unrecorded, upholder (1761–68). Son of John Hawkins, victualler of Warminster, Wilts.; app. to Charles Greenwood on 1 October 1761, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 1 December 1768. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hawkins, Charles, Silver St, Golden Sq., London, carver (1774). [Poll bk]
Hawkins, Charles, 1 Hatfield Pl., Westminster Rd, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Hawkins, David, Liverpool, cm (1827–40). App. to William John Roberts in 1827 and admitted freeman on 30 July 1840. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk and freemen reg.]
Hawkins, E., House of Industry, Chester, upholder (1819). [Election for Sheriff]
Hawkins, Edward, Chester, u (1727–47). Admitted freeman on 8 July 1727. [Chester freemen rolls and poll bks]
Hawkins, Edward, Eastgate, Chester, u (1784). Son of James Hawkins, u of Chester; admitted freeman on 1 April 1784. [Chester freemen rolls and poll bk]
Hawkins, Edward, Prince's St, Westminster, London, upholder (1784). [D]
Hawkins, Edward, 35 New Compton St, Soho, London, chair manufacturer etc. (1820–23). [D]
Hawkins, Elizabeth, at ‘The Royal Bed’, New Bond St, Hanover Sq., London, cm and u (1767). Possibly the widow of (John?) Hawkins, whose trade card bears a bill on the back dated 23 November 1767, which reads: ‘Bought of Eliz. Hawkins’. [Heal] See Hawkins, —, and John Hawkins.
Hawkins, Frederick, 47 Cirencester Pl., London, carver and gilder (1835–39). [D]
Hawkins, George, 36 Broad St, Bath, Som., u, auctioneer and broker (1833). [D]
Hawkins, H., Compton St, Soho, London, looking-glass and frame maker (c.1760). [Heal]
Hawkins, Henry, Chester, cm (1785). App. to Richard Hawkins, cm, 10–14 November 1785. [Chester app. bks]
Hawkins, Henry, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1818–33). Four daughters and three sons bapt. between 1818 and 1833. [PR (bapt.)]
Hawkins, J. D., Cavern House, Blackheath Hill, London, cm (1808). [D]
Hawkins, James, Liverpool, u (1747). [Chester poll bk]
Hawkins, James snr, Chester, u (1747–84). Recorded in Eastgate St, 1781–84. Son of Edward Hawkins of Chester, u; admitted freeman on 23 July 1747. Took his son, James Hawkins as app. in November 1775. [D; Chester freemen rolls, app. bks and poll bk]
Hawkins, James jnr, Chester, u (1784–1826). Addresses given in Eastgate St, 1784–89; Princess St, 1812; George St, 1818; William St, 1819; and Frodsham St, 1826. Son of James Hawkins, u of Chester; admitted freeman on 1 April 1784. [D; Chester freemen rolls; poll bks and election of Sheriff, 1819]
Hawkins, James, Dorchester, Dorset, ironmonger and u (1784–99). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1794 for £800 of which utensils and stock accounted for £30. Will dated 1799. [GL, Sun MS vol. 322, p. 436; Dorset RO, DA/W/1799/20]
Hawkins, James, 12 Clerkenwell Close, London, mahogany merchant, cabinet and looking-glass manufacturer, toyman and u (1808–09). In association with Thomas Gisborne Molineux and Francis Molineux took out Sun Insurance policies for warehouse, stock, utensils and looking-glass plates on 7 April 1808 for £3,000; and on 25 May 1809 for £3,500. [GL, Sun MS vol. 443, ref. 814884; vol. 446, ref. 830948]
Hawkins, John, Bath, Som., cm (1732). Took app. named Harvey in 1732. [S of G, app. index]
Hawkins, John, Bond St, London, u (1749). [Poll bk] Possibly Hawkins, —, husband of Elizabeth Hawkins, at ‘The Royal Bed’.
Hawkins, John, 86 Ratcliff Highway, London, cm and broker (1793). Insured his house, utensils and stock for £200 on 28 March 1793. [GL, Sun MS vol. 392, ref. 613028]
Hawkins, John, 9 Broad St, Bloomsbury, London, cm (1802– 03). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Hawkins, John, Mill St, Hull, Yorks., cm and u (1806). [D]
Hawkins, John, London, cm (1806–18). Recorded in Greenwich, 1806. [Norwich poll bks]
Hawkins, John, Woodford, Essex, cm (1823–24). [D]
Hawkins, John, 53 Seymour Pl., Bryanston Sq., London, u (1826–27). [D]
Hawkins, John, West St, Warwick, cm (1831). [Warwick poll bk]
Hawkins, John, 6 Lisson Grove North, London, u (1839). [D] See Hawkings, —.
Hawkins, John, Broadway, Stratford, Essex, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hawkins, Joseph, St Paul's Churchyard, London, cm (1750–53). Polled as a Liveryman of the Joiners’ Co. in 1750. Sale of entire stock in trade, consisting of ‘all sorts of cabinet work in a neat & modern taste’, announced in Daily Advertiser, 16 June 1753. [GL, Joiners’ Co. Livery records]
Hawkins, Joseph, 5 Cock Gates, Manchester, cm (1797). [D]
Hawkins, Matthew, Oldham St, Manchester, upholder (1788). [D]
Hawkins, Parker, Norwich and London, upholder (1794–1802). Recorded in Norwich, 1794–98, and London in 1802. [D; Norwich poll bks]
Hawkins, Peter, 15 St Martin's Lane, London, cm (1793). [D]
Hawkins, Richard, Chester, cm (1767–89). Trading at Common Hall Lane in 1784. Son of Edward Hawkins, u; admitted freeman on 15 December 1767. Took apps named Henry Hawkins in 1785 and Charles Boulton in 1789. [Chester freemen rolls, poll bks and app. bks]
Hawkins, Richard, London, turner, cm and looking-glass manufacturer (1790–1800). Recorded alone, 1792–93; as Hawkins & Dillin(g), 1790–94; and Hawkins & Rhodes, 1796, at 41 Snow Hill; alone at 13 Clerkenwell Close in 1799; as Hawkins & Rhodes there, 1797–1800. [D]
Hawkins, Richard, Sherborne, Dorset, carver and gilder (1823–30). Trading in Long St, 1823–24, and Cheap St, 1830. [D]
Hawkins, Richard, 40 Fore St, London, u (1839). [D]
Hawkins, Robert, Norwich, chairmaker (1762). Took app. named Winslow in 1762. [S of G, app. index]
Hawkins, Robert, Norwich, upholder and cm (1782). Son of John Hawkins, baker; admitted freeman on 4 May 1782. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Hawkins, Robert, Hull, Yorks., cm and u (1803–06). Trading at Whitefriargate in 1803 and Hope St, 1806. [D]
Hawkins, Samuel, King's Lynn, Norfolk, u (1784–85). Trading in High St, 1784. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 February 1785 for £350 on utensils and stock in his shop and warehouse. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 327, p. 304]
Hawkins, Samuel, 1 King's Rd, Chelsea, London, u, cm and undertaker (1808). [D]
Hawkins, William, London, upholder (1773–83). Trading at 62 New Bond St, 1773–75, and 42 Wigmore St, 1781–83. Polled at Westminster of Bond St in 1774. [D]
Hawkin(s), William, Micklegate, York, cm (1774–1811). Took app. named William Thorp on 8 July 1775. Former app., Thomas Melrose, admitted freeman in 1779. Assigned from John Wright app. named Robert Hernage, admitted freeman cm in 1802. Took apps named William Carrick on 10 October 1772; Robert Kidd on 22 July 1782; William Boddy on 16 February 1784; Benjamin Ellis on 8 February 1789; and Thomas Fisher on 17 April 1804. Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. Took inventory of Newby Park in 1794. [D; poll bks; York app. reg. and freemen rolls; Leeds archives dept, Newby papers, NH 2802]
Hawkins, William, 6 Queen St, Soho, London, chairmaker (1809–11). [D]
Hawkins, William, Dorchester, Dorset, cm, u and auctioneer (1823–40). Addresses given at High St, 1823–24, and High East St in 1830. [D]
Hawkins, William, High (or Castle) St, Berkhamsted, Herts., carpenter, joiner and cm (1828–39). [D]
Hawksey, Andrew, Market St, St Helens, Lancs., joiner, cm and u (1834). [D]
Hawksley, Francis, Nottingham, u (1722). [Notts. RO, index of burgesses]
Hawkswell (or Hawxwell), William, York, cm, furnisher of funerals, appraiser and salesman (1771–87). Recorded in Peter Lane, 1771, and High Ousegate, 1784–87. Submitted bill on 19 April 1771 for a total of £4 13s 10d including eleven chairs at 4s 6d each; one glass, two tables, a dresser, and several items of ironmongery. [D; poll bk; Castle Museum, York] See Hauxwell, —.
Hawksworth, George, York, cm (1833). Son of George Hawksworth, labourer; app. to Thomas Walls, cm, on 1 September 1833. [York app. reg.]
Hawksworth, Hannah, 3 Shales Moor, Sheffield, Yorks., u (1822). [D]
Hawksworth, John, South Parade, Thorne, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hawkyard, Henry, Elland, near Halifax, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hawley, —, 9 Milk St, Bristol, cm (1775). [D]
Hawley, William, Parliament St, Nottingham, cm and u (1834– 40). Recorded at no. 36 in 1835. [D]
Haworth, Henry, 8 Denmark St, London, carver (1760–d.1781). Took over work from his father, Samuel, at Carron, Stirlingshire, 1779–81. See Samuel Haworth.
Haworth, Henry, 20 Barter St, Duke's Dock, Liverpool, cm (1804). [D]
Haworth (or Howarth), John, Wigan, Lancs., cm and u (1814– 18). Trading in Standishgate, 1814, and Wallgate, 1816–18. [D]
Haworth (or Hayworth), Samuel, London, carver and gilder (1749–79). Recorded at Rose St, Covent Gdn in 1749; Denmark St, 1763, no. 8 by 1779. [D; poll bk] Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. In 1763 worked at Egremont House, London. [W. Sussex RO, Petworth II, 6615] In 1764 submitted two designs to the governors of Middlx Hopital for a frame for the portrait by R. E. Pine of the Duke of Northumberland. He supplied it at a cost of £19 19s 6d. In 1766 he was involved in a matter of arbitration between Sir Lawrence Dundas and the upholder, Samuel Norman, over the latter's charges for gilding the gallery at Moor Park. [Gilbert, Chippendale, pp. 158–59] In 1773 Haworth was commissioned to carve portraits of the King and Queen to ornament hobgrates to commemorate the granting of a Royal Charter of Incorporation from King George III to the Carron Co., Scotland. Samuel's son, Henry, worked at Carron from 1779 until his death in 1781, when son William took over, remaining for fifty-six years. [Conn., May—August 1963, pp. 21–24; R. Lister, Decorative Cast Ironwork in Great Britain] See Henry and William Haworth.
Haworth, Thomas, near ‘The Angel’, High St, Doncaster, Yorks., u and cm (1766). Advertised in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 28 June 1766, as ‘Some years foreman to Mr. Saunders, late of Soho Square, now of Great Queen Street, London…He furnisheth all sorts of Upholstery and Cabinet Work in the Newest Taste and on the most reasonable Terms, having laid in a fresh Assortment of Goods of the Best Qualities and Newest Fashions. Great Choice of Paper Hangings, Entire New Patterns; Turkey, Wilton, Persia, and Scotch Carpets; Papier Machee, Ornaments, Frames, Girandoles, Borders &c. Journeymen Cabinet or Chair Makers that are Good Hands may be sure of Constant Employ. Also Wanted a Person as Foreman in the Cabinet Branch. One Qualified for such an undertaking May Depend on Encouragement equal to Merit.’
Haworth, Thomas, shop at 2 Gay St, Liverpool, cm (1821–23). [D]
Haworth, William, 8 Denmark St, London, carver (1759–1838). Took over work from his father Samuel, and brother Henry at Carron, Stirlingshire, from 1781–1837. Many of his original carvings are preserved at Falkirk Museum. See Samuel Haworth.
Haws, Isaac, Downley, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1806–41). Aged 35 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hawson, —, John St, London, u (1833). Recorded in Loudon's Encyclopaedia, 1833, p. 1039, as a dealer in ancient and curious furniture.
Hawson, John jnr, Strait, Lincoln, cm and u (1822). [D]
Hawthornthwaite, John, Lancaster, cm (1762–77). App. to Robert Gardner, cm, on 9 April 1762, and admitted freeman, 1768–69. Took app. cm on 21 January 1777. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls] Possibly:
Hawthornthwaite, John, Shields, Co. Durham or Northumb., cm (1784). [Lancaster poll bk]
Hawtridge, William, Woodbridge, Suffolk, cm (1824). [D]
Hawtyn, William, address unrecorded, upholder (1718–25). Son of Samuel Hawtyn, maltster of London; app. to Philip Green on 3 September 1718, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 November 1725. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hay, Alexander, 26 Red Lion St, Holborn, London, cm and u (1808–39). Recorded also at 3 Prince's St, Red Lion Sq., 1827–28. [D]
Hay, John, 38 Drury Lane, London, cm (1809–17). [D]
Hay, Peter, shop at 3 South End, Dry Dock, Liverpool, carver (1807). [D]
Hay, Samuel, 73 Long Acre, London, cm (1802–03). Hay of this address named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Hay, Tempest, Long Acre, London. Sent and receipted a bill of Philip le Caron submitted to Corsham Court, Wilts. [V&A archives]
Hay, Thomas, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hayden, William Isaac, Fair St, Horsleydown, London, cm and undertaker (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £400 of which utensils and stock accounted for £200. [GL, Sun MS vol. 257, p. 209]
Haydon, W. H., 48 Pearson St, Kingsland Rd, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hayes, —, at ‘The White Swan’, on the South Side of St Paul's Churchyard, London, u (1694). He was followed at this address by John Coxed. [Hilton Price, Signs of Old London]
Hayes, George, High St, Tewkesbury, Glos., cm and chairmaker (1839). [D]
Hayes, Henry, Market St, Alton, Hants., cm and u (1830). [D]
Hayes, J., Liverpool, cm (1817). Marriage to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr H. Crowther, Crosshall St, on 16 June 1817, reported in Liverpool Mercury, 27 June.
Hayes, James, 20 Norfolk St, Liverpool, cm (1790). [D]
Hayes, James, 10 Cumberland St, near Middlx Hospital, Oxford, chairmaker (1802). [Poll bk]
Hayes, James, 5 Woodward's Pl., Horatio St, Liverpool, cm (1834). [D]
Hay(e)s, Jeffrey, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., chairmaker (1834). As Hays recorded in High St. [D]
Hayes, John, St Mary's Kalendar, Hants., cm (1761). Took app. named Muspratt in 1761. [S of G, app. index]
Hayes, John, Bristol, cm (1774–84). Recorded in St James's parish in 1774 and 1784, and St Thomas's in 1781. [Poll bks]
Hayes, John, Liverpool, cm (1796–1835). Addresses given at 11 Derby St in 1818; 78 Crosshall St with shop at 28 Tarleton St in 1821; 77 Crosshall St with shop at 3 Brooks Alley, 1823– 24; 77 or 78 Crosshall St with shop at 26 Richmond Row, 1827–29; 4 Thomas St and 10 Shaw's Brow in 1827; and 77 Crosshall St with shop at 29 Tarleton St, 1834–35. Admitted freeman on 27 May 1796. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]. Possibly more than one tradesman of the same name is concerned here.
Hayes, John, 34 Windmill St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, cm (1802). [Oxford poll bk]
Hayes, John, Manchester, cm and u (1814–40). Addresses given at 58–59 Bridge St, 1814–21; no. 63 in 1824; no. 65, 1822– 29; no. 24, 1832–38; and 47 Liverpool Rd in 1840. [D]
Hayes, John, Haymarket, Sheffield, Yorks., cm and u (1828–29). [D]
Hayes, R. N., 26 New Bond St and 10 Mount St, Berkeley St. London, camp equipage maker and u etc. (1835). [D]
Hayes, Robert, near the Dial, Long Alley, Moorfields, London, u (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £300 of which utensils, stock and goods accounted for £120. [GL, Sun MS vol. 258, p. 233]
Hayes, Shepherd, Bristol, cm (1781). [Poll bk]
Hayes, Thomas, 1 Thomas St, Liverpool, cm (1790). [D]
Hayes, William, address unrecorded, upholder (1713). Took app. on 3 July 1713. [PRO, app. reg.] Probably William Hays.
Hayes, William, Winchester, Hants., cm (1768–d.1779). Notice in Oxford Gazette and Reading Mercury, 25 April 1768 read: ‘WINCHESTER, Lately Arrived, a large Quantity of MAHOGANY of different sorts, the Property of WILLIAM HAYES, Cabinet-Maker, which he is determined to sell to the Trade as cheap as any Market in England: likewise a Choice of very fine Phinears and Dining-Table wood of a fine Quality. Coach Pannelling cut on very reasonable terms.’ Died intestate in 1779. [Hants. RO; C. Life, 11 June 1953, p. 1892]
Hayes, William, 31 Goode St, London, upholder (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £300 of which utensils, stock and goods accounted for £50. [GL, Sun MS vol. 256, p. 190]
Hayes, William, Greece St, London, chairmaker (1802). [Oxford poll bk]
Hayes, William, Millgate, Wigan, Lancs., cm (1825). [D]
Hayes, William, Liverpool, u (1830). App. to William Bickerstaff in 1830. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Haygarth, James, 39 Upper John St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, u (1816). [D]
Hayhurst, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1757–65). Admitted freeman on 9 June 1757. Took apps named William Ren and William Fairclough in 1765. [Liverpool app. and freemen reg.] Possibly:
Hayhurst, Richard, Liverpool, cm (d.c.1765). Notice in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 14 June 1765, requested that ‘All Persons who have any Demands on the Estate of … Mr. Richard Hayhurst, Cabinet maker, deceased, are desired to render in their Accounts to James France, Cable-street, that they may be settled & paid …And all Persons indebted to the said Estates, are desired to pay their respective Debts forthwith…otherwise they will be sued without further Notice.’ Son of Richard Hayhurst, Thomas, merchant, petitioned freedom on birthright in 1784. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Hayhurst, Richard, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, u and flour dealer (1813–18). Trading at no. 85, 1813–14, and no. 86 in 1818. [D]
Hayley, John, Hull, Yorks., carver (1781). [D]
Hayley, John, 4 Oxford Mkt, London, cm (1829). [D]
Hayley, William, 5 Little George St, Westminster, London, cm and undertaker (1808). [D]
Hayley & Co., 140 Long Acre, London, u (1807). Submitted bill dated 6 March 1807 for fringe for furniture in the Drawing Room at Gorhambury, St Albans, Herts., costing £18 2s. [Herts. RO, Gorhambury accounts, no. XI, 77]
Hayling, Thomas, Gosport, Hants., cm and upholder (1781). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1781 for £400 of which utensils and stock accounted for £250. [GL, Sun MS vol. 295, p. 473]
Hayman, Christopher, 6 Grafton St, Soho, London, organ and cm (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 26 April 1792 for £350. [GL, Sun MS vol. 382, ref. 599636]
Hayman, Ester, 36 Gt St Andrew St, London, u (1808). [D]
Hayman, Richard, Deal, Kent, joiner, cm and u (1782–1807). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1782 for £800 of which workshop accounted for £150. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 306, p. 302]
Hayman, William, Beach St, Deal, Kent, cm and u (1823–34). [D]
Hayne, J., 120 High Holborn, London, dressing case manufacturer (1835). [D]
Haynes, A., 99 Paul St, Finsbury Sq., London, chair stuffer and cm (1817). [D]
Haynes, Edward, St Albans, Herts., cm and u (1832–39). Recorded at Market Pl. in 1832 and St Peter's St, 1838–39. [D]
Haynes, Henry, London, carver and gilder (1826–39). Addresses given at 21 Seymour Pl., Camden Town in 1826; 52 George St, Euston Sq. (or Hampstead Rd), 1835–39; and 16 Gt Windmill St, 1839. [D]
Haynes, John, 29 Dartmouth St, St Margaret's, London, gilder (1835). Took app. in 1835. [Westminster Ref. Lib., E 3559, Grinsell's charity app. indentures]
Haynes, John, King St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm and u (1836). [D]
Haynes, John, 23 Theobalds Rd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Haynes, Joseph, 36 East St, Red Lion Sq. (or Lamb's Conduit St), London, cm, u and undertaker (1835–39). [D]
Haynes, Joshua, Chapel Paved Way, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm and chairmaker (1830). [D]
Hayne(s), Matthew, Bloomsbury, London, portable desk manufacturer, cm and u (1814–39). Addresses given at 1 Hyde St in 1814; 13 Peter St, 1817; no. 63, 1819; 54 Museum St, 1820–39; also 1 Hyde St in 1820 and 1827–28; 5½ Museum St in 1823. Hyde St may be the back street behind Museum St. [D]
Haynes, Richard, Coventry St, Stourbridge, Worcs., cm and u (1828–35). [D]
Haynes, Robert, 38 Wilson St, Finsbury Sq., London, upholder (1808). [D]
Hayne(r)s, Roger, Sheffield, Yorks., joiner and cm (1828–37). Addresses given at 39 South St, 1828–29, and 3 Cumberland St, 1833–37. [D]
Haynes, Samuel, address unrecorded, upholder (1714–28). Son of Richard Haynes, merchant of London; app. to John Crouch on 2 February 1714/15, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 12 December 1728. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Haynes, Thomas, Shrewsbury, Salop, joiner and cm (1776). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1776 for £300 of which utensils and stock accounted for £200. [GL, Sun MS vol. 246, p. 32]
Haynes, Thomas, King St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm (1822– 41). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 13 April 1832. [D; poll bks]
Haynes, William, Park, Bristol, cm (1794). [D]
Haynes, William, South St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1833). Daughter Eliza bapt. at St Mary Major on 14 September 1833. [PR (bapt.)]
Haynes, William Carter, North Quay, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm (1838–41). [Poll bks]
Hays, —, London, chairmaker (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hays, John, 11 John St, Gt Ancoats St, Manchester, chair bottomer (1808–09). [D]
Hays, Thomas, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hays, William, London, upholder (1827–34). Addresses given at St George's Church, Southwark, 1827–34, and Blackman St, parish of St George the Martyr, 1829. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 16 May 1829 for £400, £100 on a house in Duke St in tenure of a lace weaver; £100 on a house in Lombard St in tenure of a chandler; and £200 on a house in Suffolk St in tenure of a victualler and hatter. [Poll bks; GL, Sun MS vol. 29, ref. 47712] Probably William Hayes.
Hayson, James, Harrington Harbour, Workington, Cumb., cm and joiner (1834). [D]
Hayter, George, address unrecorded, picture frame maker (1825). Named in the Chatsworth furnishing accounts in 1825 receiving £47 5s.
Hayter, John, 21 Cavendish St, London, carver (1778). Insured his house for £300 in 1778. [GL, Sun MS vol. 264, p. 373]
Hayter, Thomas, 6 George Buildings, Old St, London, bedstead maker (1839). [D]
Hayton, Joseph, 11 Back Lane, Manchester, cm (1797). [D]
Hayward, —, Ipswich, Suffolk, u (c. 1765–70). [E. D. H. Tollemache, The Tollemaches of Helmingham and Ham, p. 103)
Hayward, —, address unrecorded. On 12 January 1779 received £10 7s as part of his bill for furniture supplied to Sir George Cornewall of Moccas Court, near Hereford, and Stanhope St, London. [Herefs. RO, Moccas papers, J56/IV/3]
Hayward, Charles, Bedford St, Covent Gdn, London, u (1809– 29). Recorded at no. 23, 1809, and no. 33, 1811–29. [D]
Hayward, Ebenezer, High St, Croydon, Surrey, cm, u, turner and chairmaker (1809–26). [D]
Hayward, Edward, Sidney St, Liverpool, cm (1827–29). Trading at no. 11 in 1827, and no. 17, 1829. [D]
Hayward, Henry, Grey Coat Pl., Horseferry Rd, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hayward, J., 6 London Rd, London, u and cm (1835): [D]
Hayward, J., Fore St, Topsham, Devon, upholstress (1838). [D]
Hayward, James, 147 High St, Poplar, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Hayward, James, Camberwell Grove, Camberwell, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hayward, John, St Paul's, Covent Gdn, London, cm (1744–45). App. to James Smith, 1744–45, ‘by the Sons of the Clergy’. [Heal]
Hayward, John, Poole, Dorset, cm (1756–84). Took app. named Gutheridge in 1756. Insured house and offices for £200 in 1780 with the Sun Co. [D; S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 283, p. 113]
Hayward, John, 12 Stephen St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, picture frame maker (1835). [D]
Hayward, Miles, New St, Woodbridge, Suffolk, cm and u (1839). [D] See Robert Hayward and Hayward & Son.
Hayward (or Hayword), Richard, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon., upholder and apraiser (1758–69). In 1758 purchased two houses and malt house in Hart St for £250, paying a deposit of £2 2s. [Oxford RO, MISC. Berks., VI/V/6] Advertised sales of bankrupts’ or deceaseds’ effects in Jackson's Oxford Journal, 29 July 1759, 20 April 1761 and in 1765, 1766, and 1768; and sale of house in Hart St, 24 January 1760. Announcement on 17 December 1768 that the auctioneer, Hayward, was retiring, and on 28 January 1769 that his business was being taken over by John Byles, draper, mercer and u, and Hayward's house in Hart St was to let.
Hayward, Richard, Wimborne, Dorset, cm and joiner (1784) [D]
Hayward, Robert, Liverpool, chairmaker (1811–16). Shop address given at 10 Cases St in 1811; and recorded at 54 Copperas Hill in 1813, and 21 Stanley St in 1816. [D]
Hayward, Robert, Woodbridge, Suffolk, turner and chairmaker, cm (1824–30). Trading at Market Hill in 1830. [D] See Miles Hayward and Hayward & Son.
Hayward, Thomas, 23 Bedford St, Covent Gdn, London, u (1809–11). [D]
Hayward, Thomas, 22 Hatton Gdn, London, u and house agent (1835). [D]
Hayward, Thomas, 18 High Holborn, London, u (1835–37). [D]
Hayward & Son, Market Hill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, cm (1839). [D] See Miles and Robert Hayward.
Haywood, James, Witham, Hull, Yorks., cm (1826–46). [D]
Haywood, Thomas, Manchester, u and dealer in household furniture (1833). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 4 October 1833.
Haywood (or Hayward), William, Nantwich, Cheshire, chairmaker (1833–38). Married Elizabeth Wilson on 8 June 1833. Son John bapt. on 25 April 1834; daughter Sarah on 10 December 1836; and son Henry on 18 June 1838. [Chester RO, PR (bapt.)]
Hayzen, James, 24 Sidney Pl., Commercial Rd, London, u (1839). [D]
Hayzen & Co., 9 St Ann's Pl., Commercial Rd, Limehouse, London, bed and bedding manufacturer (1835). [D]
Hazard, Mary, South St, Dorchester, Dorset, cm and u (1830). [D] See Thomas Hazard.
Hazard, Peter, see Peter Hasert.
Hazard, Thomas, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1786–d. 1799). Trading at High Pavement in 1799. Took an app. in 1786 and one named Samuel Sharp in 1798. Probate will dated 30 December 1799. [D; Nottingham app. list; Notts. RO, probate records]
Hazard, Thomas, Cornhill, Dorchester, Dorset, cm, u and auctioneer (1823–24). [D] See Mary Hazard.
Hazel, Sampson, Bolt Lane, Gloucester, chairmaker (1802). [D]
Hazelhurst, John, Paradise St, Liverpool, cm (1769). [D]
Hazelrigg, Medcalf, Newcastle, u (1733). Admitted freeman on 8 October 1733. [Newcastle freemen reg.]
Hazelwood, Moses, Baxtergate, Whitby, Yorks., cm/chairmaker (1840). [D]
Hazlehurst (or Haslehurst), Ann, 56 Stanley St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1823–35). [D]
Hazlehurst, Hannah, 56 Stanley St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1827). [D]
Hazlehurst, John, Stanley St, Liverpool, chairmaker (b.1774–d.1822). Recorded at no. 15 in 1811; no. 16, 1813– 14; and no. 36 in 1821. Death on 12 November 1822, aged 48, reported in Liverpool Mercury, 22 November. [D]
Hazlewood, Thomas, Cambridge, turner and chairmaker (1824–32). Trading at Trumpington St in 1824; Redhart Yd, 1830; and Hyde Park Corner in 1832. [D; poll bk]
Head, —, Gt George St, Liverpool, cm (1824). The Liverpool Mercury, 31 December 1824, contained a story about an imposter who stole two tea caddies from C. Jones, fancy cm in Trowbridge St, under the pretence of having been sent to collect them by Mr Head, cm, of Gt George St, and claimed he would bring the payment in a few days. When asked, however, Mr Head said that ‘he had never sent for any such articles as those above mentioned.’ Possibly Jonathon Head.
Head, Henry, 5 Junction Dock St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1837–39). [D]
Head, Jeremiah, Liverpool, cm (1790–1800). Addresses given at 26 and 32 King St in 1790; 17 Paradise St in 1794; no. 8 in 1796; and no. 7 in 1800. [D]
Head, Jonathan, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1805–35). Addresses given at 15 Milk St in 1807; 58 St James St in 1810; no. 52 in 1811; no. 2 in 1816; no. 15 Leander St in 1827, with shop at 28 Wood St, 1827–34; 27 Leander St in 1829; no. 28 in 1834; and no. 29 in 1835. Signed the supplement to the Liverpool Cabinet and Chair Prices, 1805, on behalf of the masters. [D]
Head, Jonathon, Gt George St, Liverpool, cm (1813). Sale of his stock in trade ‘by order of the assignees’, by Trother & Magill, cm and auctioneers, advertised in Liverpool Mercury, 9 April 1813. Stock consisted of ‘an excellent Billiard Table, Balls, Mace & Cues, handsome Mahogany Secretaire & Bookcase, Chest of Drawers, Rosewood Bookcase, Shower Bath, a set of Bedsteads & other effects belonging to the estate of Mr. Jonathon Head, Cabinet Maker. The Stock in Trade consists of Mahogany, Oak, Ash, Birch & Deal Planks & Boards & a small quantity of Brass work, excellent Benches, Iron Stove & Pipe etc…’. See Head, —.
Head, Joseph, Liverpool, cm (b.1760–d.1829). Addresses given at Toxteth Park, 1796–1805; High Park, 1807–10; Hood St, Harrington, with shop at 2 St James Pl., 1813–14; and 9 Dexter St in 1827. Death aged 69 on 4 February 1829 reported in Liverpool Mercury, 13 February. [D]
Head, Samuel, New St, Woodbridge, Suffolk, u and cm (1839). [D]
Head, Thomas, Leeds, Yorks., journeyman cm (1791). Named in the Leeds Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, amongst other journeymen in basic sympathy with its contents.
Head, Thomas, 1 Vine St, Clare Mkt, London, cm (1787). Insured goods for £400 on 8 June 1787. [GL, Sun MS vol. 342, ref. 531412]
Head, William, London, cm (1793–94). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. Commissioned by Lady Northampton to supply furniture for the Mansion House at Leighton. On 10 April 1794 he was paid £2 2s for a ‘Mahogany card table with green cloth for the Hon. Miss Leigh’; and on 30 May 1794, £1 1s for ‘making a set of full sized furniture’. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5]
Head & Lissel, 1 Hill St, Liverpool, joiners and cm (1807). [D]
Headdon, Benjamin, 148 Queen St, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants., u and chairmaker (1839). [D]
Headley, Robert, Church St, Gainsborough, Lincs., chairmaker and carver (1831). [D]
Headley (or Heady), Thomas, 8 Union St, East Pl., Lambeth, London, chairmaker (1796–1811). In 1796–97 submitted a bill to Mr Devenish for ‘6 Black Round Seats’ for £1 16s. [Heal Coll., BM] Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 26 January 1801 for £300 of which £60 accounted for stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 419, ref. 712764]
Heaford, Thomas, New St, Wellington, Salop, chairmaker and wood turner (1840). [D]
Heal(e), Fanny & Son, 203 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, feather bed and mattress maker (1818–40). [D; Heal]
Heal, John Harris, London, feather bed and mattress maker (1810–28). Addresses given at 33 Rathbone Pl., 1810–18, and 203 Tottenham Ct Rd, 1822–28. [D; London rate bks] See Heal & Son and Fanny Heal(e) & Son.
Heal, Joseph, Westgate Quarters, Exeter, Devon, cm (1834). Son Joseph bapt. at St Mary Steps on 3 August 1834. [PR (bapt.)]
Heal & Son, 196 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, bedding and cm, feather dressers and French mattress makers (1840–41). Advertised in Morning Chronicle, 24 April 1841 offering mattresses as made in Paris, workmen to any part of the country, and remaking of old mattresses and bedding. [Heal]
Heald, Daniel, 21 George St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1832). [D]
Heald, John, Witton St, Northwich, Cheshire, chairmaker (1822–34). [D]
Heald, John, Milton St, Nottingham, cm (1835). [D]
Heald, William, Lower Bridge St, Chester, chairmaker (1793–97). [D]
Heald, William, Ormskirk, Lancs., chairmaker (1798). [D]
Heald, William, Liverpool, chairmaker (1804–05). Trading at 37 Park Lane in 1804, and at the Painted Chair warehouse, 42 Park Lane in 1805. [D]
Healey, Benjamin, Daw Green, Dewsbury, Yorks., cm (1828–34). Trading in partnership with David Healey in 1830. [D]
Healey, David, Daw Green, Dewsbury, Yorks., cm (1828–34). [D]
Healey, John, 9 Taylor's Buildings, Woolwich, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Heall, Joseph, 12 East Cheap, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–42). [D]
Hea(r)n, William, London, cm, u, chair and sofa manufacturer, undertaker and appraiser (1819–39). Addresses given at 12 Little Wild St, Long Acre, 1819–35; 11 Wild St, 1835; and 30 Russell St, Bloomsbury, 1837–39. Paper label recorded inside drawer of simple mahogany Pembroke table.
Heap, George, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1834–39). Addresses given at 23 Fox St, 1834–35, and 159 Richmond Row, Richmond Fair in 1839. [D]
Heap, Robert, New Brentford, Middlx, u, cm and chairmaker (1839). [D]
Heap, Samuel, Liverpool, cm and woollen draper (1823–29). Recorded at 16 Gt Richmond St with shop at 11 and 14 Woollen Hall, Richmond Row in 1823; 7 and 9 Gt Richmond St in 1827; and 13 Fox St with shop at 17 Fox St and Woollen Hall, 1829. [D]
Heap, William, Wharf St, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Heard, —, Moretonhampstead, Devon, cm (1808). Marriage to Mrs Pinn, widow of Exeter, reported in Exeter Flying Post, 15 December 1808.
Heard, Amos, Exeter, Devon, cm (1830–33). Recorded at Idol Lane in 1830; and St Mary Arches St in 1833. Son Henry George bapt. at St George's on 21 November 1830; and daughter Elizabeth Ann on 28 April 1833. [PR (bapt.)]
Heard, Charles, Dartmouth, Devon cm and u (1804). Advertised sale of stock in trade in Exeter Flying Post, 1 November 1804, having ‘carried on business in both branches successfully but is obliged to quit owing to recent family misfortune.’
Heard, John, Portland Buildings, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1799). [D]
Heard, Richard, High St, Bideford, Devon, cm and builder (1830). [D]
Heard, William, Lower Bridge St, Chester, chairmaker (1792). [D]
Hearder, Cath., Lower Broad St, Plymouth, Devon, broker and cm (1822). [D]
Hearder, Gilbert, Torquay, Devon, cm, upholder, dealer and chapman (1816–24). Trading at Old Quay, 1823–24. Notice in Exeter Flying Post, 11 January 1816. Declared bankrupt, Western Luminary, 23 January 1816, and sale of stock in trade announced on 30 January 1816. [D]
Hearder, Jonathan, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hearder, Sarah, Torwood St, Torquay, Devon, cm (1830). [D] Possibly the Mrs Hearder, u, of Torquay, who advertised in Exeter Flying Post, 4 June 1829 as supplier of catalogues for sale by auction at Messrs Hearder's of Newton Abbot on 11 June 1829.
Heardson, —, London, u (1728). Named in the SPCK subscription ledger and cash book on 30 July 1728 receiving £1 12s for upholsterer's work. [SPCK, Holy Trinity, Marylebone Rd, London, FT9/2]
Hearne, Edward snr, Potton, Beds., upholder (1752–69). His sons admitted freemen of the Upholders’ Co.: Edward jnr in 1752, Richard in 1756, and John in 1769. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hearne, Edward jnr, London, upholder (1752–d.1795). Recorded at Little New St, Shoe Lane, 1778–86, and Holborn in 1794. Son of Edward Hearne, u of Potton, Beds., and brother of John and Richard Hearne. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by redemption on 2 April 1752; and beadle from 1770. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hearne, J., 8 Seymour Pl., Camden Town, London, cm and u (1826–35). [D]
Hearne, James, 11 Shorts Gdns, Drury Lane, London, upholder (1792). Son of John Hearne, upholder; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 2 May 1792. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hearn(e), James, 6 Ryder's Ct, Cranbourn St, Leicester Sq., London, cm, u, portable desk manufacturer and undertaker (1804–28). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 14 May 1804 and 14 April 1809 for £800 on his house, also belonging to Daniel Woodward. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 431, ref. 762285; vol. 448, ref. 830623]
Hearne, John, London, upholder (1762–69). Recorded at corner of Brook St, Holborn in 1768, and 75 Holborn in 1769. Son of Edward Hearne snr, upholder of Potton, Beds., and brother of Edward and Richard Hearne. App. to his brother Richard on 5 February 1762, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 12 May 1769. Marriage to Miss Hamilton of Stamford at St Andrew's, Holborn, reported in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 28 May 1768. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hearne, Richard, Holborn, London and Potton, Beds., upholder and cm (1748–81). Addresses given at Brook St, Holborn, 1763–68; 143 and 45 Holborn, 1767–75; nos 35 and 45 in 1775; as Richard & Co., 1769–70; as Richard & John in 1770; and in Potton, Beds., 1778–81. Son of Edward Hearne snr, upholder of Potton, Beds., and brother of Edward and John Hearne. App. to William Chesson, haberdasher, on 7 April 1748, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 3 June 1756. Took app. named George Bowditch, 1759–62, John Hearne, his brother, 1762–69, and Charles Richards until 1771. Advertised auction of furniture at Mansion House, Gamlingay Park, in Cambridge Chronicle, 17 September 1763. In 1767 employed one non-freeman for six weeks. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, City Licence bks, vol. 5] See William Hearne.
Hearne, Richard, address unrecorded, upholder (1784). App. to Thomas Waldron, upholder, on 17 April 1784, paying £40. [PRO, IRI/32]
Hearne, Thomas, address unrecorded, upholder (1707). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 3 September 1707. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hearne, William, 45 Holborn, London, upholder (1790–93). [D] See Richard and John Hearne.
Hearsman, John, see Bartholomew Bearman.
Hearson, Charles, High St, Barnstaple, Devon, rocking-horse, fancy chairs and brushwood manufacturer (1823–24). [D]
Hearson, George, Barnstaple, Devon, rocking-horse, fancy chairs and brushwood manufacturer (1823–38). Addresses given at High St, 1823–24; Pilton, 1830; and Litchdon St, 1838. [D]
Hearsy, John, address unrecorded. Supplied items to Lady Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., totalling £3 14s 2d, paid on 13 May 1682. Hearsy's bill included ‘3 fationable Cane Chayes Carved & varnished’, and ‘4 Elbo Chayers of ye same’. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5/664; Christie's, 15–16 October 1981, Stoneleigh sale cat., lot 99]
Heasman, Henry snr and jnr, London, freemen upholders (1687–1750). Heasman snr traded in the Great Piazza, Covent Gdn, 1712–50. Took apps named James Gronous until 1700; Robert Cox, 1708–19; his son, Henry Heasman jnr 5 March 1710 to his freedom by servitude, 3 April 1728; and William Light in 1718. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 7 August 1712 for his goods; and Hand in Hand policies on 12 June 1712 for £700 on his house; on 30 October 1714 and 18 November 1721 for £300 on his house. [Poll bks; GL, Upholders’ Co. records and Livery lists; GL, Sun MS vol. 2, p. 84; GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 10, ref. 23163; vol. 14, p. 38; vol. 24, p. 239] A newspaper of 1712 read: ‘In the Great Piazza in Covent Garden is to be let part of the house Sir Godfrey Kneller lived in: a back house, coach house and stables in parts or together. Inquire of Mr Heasman, upholsterer, who lives in the house.’ [Heal] Between 1687–90 carried out upholsterer's work totalling £300 at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. [Wren Soc., vol. XIX, p. 85] Between 1715–30 Henry Heasman snr and/or jnr supplied upholstery items to the Hon. Wrey and Lady Mary Saunderson. A bill of 11 June 1715, totalling £104 15s 8½ and receipted on 10 December 1716, included ‘a Bedsted with a Rissing Testor, a Carved Scroll & Cornors, a Carved Head-Board, a Sett of Large Cornishes, CarV&Apos;d off all Ends’, and many yards of lace, including 77 of ‘Willo Green Ffine Ffigured Broad Lace’ for ‘the Bed & Chaires, Windo Curtains, Vallans, Cornishes & Windo Cushins, with Valliance’. On 17 December Heasman was paid £102 3s; and on 3 June 1730, £14 14s 11d for reupholstering two window seats with curled hair and green and gold coverings; and two large settees, recovered with green silk ‘Flowerd with Gold’ and trimmed with lace. Heasman submitted another large bill for goods sold and work done for Lady Mary Saunderson between 27 January 1729 and 10 April 1730, totalling £43 6s 11½, received on 6 June 1730. Work included re-upholstering japanned chairs and stools, recovering with ‘Blew Mohair’, making cases for them of ‘Fine Blew Cheny Water'd … lin'd with Paper, & lapt Round’; and transporting the furniture from and to Grosvenor Sq. [Lincoln RO, Monson, 10, 1/A/16; 12] The account book of the Earl of Rockingham records payment of £6 15s to Mr Heasman, u, on 30 May 1717. [Lincoln RO, Monson 10 A/1] Henry Heasman jnr was recorded as a member of the Livery of the Upholders’ Co. in 1750. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Heasman, Henry jnr, address unrecorded, upholder (1710–28). Son of Henry Heasman snr, freeman upholder of London; app. to his father on 5 March 1710, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 April 1728. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Heath, —, Farnham, Surrey, cm (1811). [D]
Heath, A., 15 Berwick St, London, cm (1780). Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Heath, Abraham, 51 Broad St, Carnaby Mkt, London, furniture warehouseman (1784). [D]
Heath, Charles, Bristol, carver and gilder (1817–40). Addresses given at 4 Broadmead, 1817–18; 17 Broad St, 1819–20; no. 26, 1821–39; and nos 26–27 in 1840. [D]
Heath, Charles, Wolverhampton, Staffs., cm (1838). [D]
Heath, E., 9 Caroline Buildings, Bath, Som., cm (1833). [D]
Heath, George, address unrecorded, upholder (1725–33). Son of Herman Heath, potter of Lambeth, London; app. to Daniel Chappell on 18 September 1725, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 May 1733. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Heath, James, London, upholder and cm (1776–86). Recorded at 35 Wood St, Cheapside, 1775–76; Crutched Friars, 1776– 81; no. 27 in 1776; and Cripplegate, 1778 and 1786. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 3 January 1776. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1775 for £300, £200 on utensils and stock; and in 1776 for £200 on utensils and stock; and another policy for £600, £400 on utensils and stock. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 240, p. 411; vol. 249, pp. 146 and 487]
Heath, James, Walthamstow, Essex, u (1781). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1781 for £400 of which £270 accounted for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 297, p. 378]
Heath, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1706–30). Son of Robert Heath, mason of Thame, Oxon., and father of Robert Heath, upholder. App. to Thomas Cooke on 24 March 1706, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude in 1717. Took app. named Barton Shuttleworth, 1717–1729/ 30. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Heath, John, at ‘The Rising Sun’, Wych St, London, upholder (1718–34). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in association with James Bostock on 22 January 1718 on goods and merchandise; and alone on 11 January 1727 for £400 of which household goods and stock in trade accounted for £360. [Poll bks; GL, Sun MS vol. 7; vol. 25, ref. 43538]
Heath, John, London, u (1721). [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Heath, John, Pillory St, Nantwich, Cheshire, cm (1834–40). [D]
Heath, P., Brewer St, Golden Sq., London, cm and u (1793). [D] See Thomas Heath.
Heath, Randle, Welsh (or Welch) Row, Nantwich, Cheshire, cm (1813–29). Daughter Mary bapt. on 22 February 1813; son William on 14 October 1814; and daughter Martha on 29 November 1818. [D; PR (bapt.)]
Heath, Richard, 13 Snowhill, Birmingham, chair and gun rod maker (1777–80). [D]
Heath, Richard, High St, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., cm (1818). [D]
Heath, Robert, address unrecorded, upholder (1748). Son of John Heath, upholder; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 27 October 1748. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Heath, Robert, Broad Ct, London, upholder (1748–49). Robert Heath, upholder and auctioneer of Broad Ct, Bow St, Covent Gdn, advertised sale of household furniture at the ‘Bull-head and Three Tuns Tavern, facing Bow Church’ in General Advertiser, 1 November 1748. Of Broad Ct, Drury Lane, polled in 1749.
Heath, Robert, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, upholder (1758). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., December 1758.
Heath, Robert, 34 Brush Lane, Cannon St, London, Tunbridge-ware manufacturer (1826–28). [D]
Heath, Thomas, London, upholder and cm (1771–1821). Trading at 40 Brewer St, 1784–93; no. 42, 1787–1808; and 4 Lower James St, Golden Sq. in 1809. Trading as appraiser and house agent in 1820. Son of Thomas Heath; app. to Peter and John Deschamps, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 5 June 1771. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 3 August 1786 for £500 on his house; and on 9 January 1787 for £400 on goods and utensils. [D; poll bks; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 338, p. 567; vol. 342, ref. 526282] See P. Heath.
Heath, Thomas, York St, Shelton (or Hanley), Staffs., cm and u (1834–35). [D]
Heath, William, Nantwich, Cheshire, cm (1832). Married on 18 October 1832. [Chester RO, PR]
Heath Abbott, Hannah, 7 Cornhill, London, carver and gilder (1790). Insured her stock and goods for £2,400 in 1790. [GL, Sun MS vol. 370]
Heathcote, John, Prussia St, Oldham St, Liverpool, cm (1800– 03). Trading at no. 32 in 1800 and no. 18 in 1803. [D]
Heathcote, Thomas, Market Pl., Rotherham, Yorks., cm (1822–29). [D]
Heathcott, I., Webb Sq., Shoreditch, London, cm (1820). [D]
Heather, William, 111 St John's St, West Smithfield, London, cm and chairmaker (1817–20). [D]
Heaton, James, King St, Bolton, Lancs., chairmaker (1814–34). Trading also as a glass dealer in 1818. [D] See Thomas Heaton.
Heaton, John, Manchester, cm (1817–40). Addresses given at 11 Back Red-Bank in 1817; Johnson St, Ducie Bridge in 1824–25; and no. 6 in 1840. [D]
Heaton, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1761–d. by 1817). Admitted freeman on 29 January 1761. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Heaton, Thomas, 60 Deansgate, Bolton, Lancs., chairmaker (1814–18). [D] See James Heaton.
Heaven, John, at ‘The Floorcloth’, Bedford St, facing Bedford Row, London, joiner and turner (c.1760). Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Heaviside, John, Stockton-upon-Tees, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–32). Trading at Blue Post Yd, 1827–29, and Ramsgate, Stockton, in 1832. [D]
Heavyse(d)ge, Thomas, Swan Yd, Kirkgate, Huddersfield, Yorks., cm and/or u (1830–37). [D]
Heavyside, Thomas, Swan Yd, Huddersfield, Yorks., cm and u (1830). [D]
Hebbard & Rockwood, 46 Gt Ormond Yd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hebbirt, John, Buxton, Derbs., cm (1822). [D]
Hebblethwaite, James, Halifax, Yorks., cm (1814–37). Addresses given at King's Cross Lane, 1814–20; Bull Green in 1822; and Little Lane in 1837. [D]
Hebden, William, Shelf, Rishworth, Yorks., joiner and cm (1837). [D]
Hebdersley, T., 11 Little Chapel St, Soho, London, cm and chairturner (1817). [D]
Hebdish, Charles, Sherborne, Dorset, cm (1798). [D]
Hebditch, Charles, 2 Black Horse Ct, Aldersgate St, London, cm (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1792 for £200 on his house, goods, stock and utensils, stock accounting for £60. [GL, Sun MS vol. 391, p. 622]
Hedderley, Thomas, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1773). [Nottingham burgess list]
Hedderley, William, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1779). Son of Thomas Hedderley, bellfounder of Nottingham; taken as app. in 1779. [Nottingham app. list]
Hedge, John, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Probably John Hedges.
Hedge(s), William, Tithebarn St, Liverpool, cm and u (1827–34). Trading at no. 71, 1827–29, and no. 62 in 1834. [D]
Hedger (or Hedges), John, 136 Whitechapel Rd, London, cm and broker (1807–20). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 19 October 1807 for £600 of which stock and utensils accounted for £300, plus £100 on those in workshop; and on 16 November 1808 for £600, £300 on stock and utensils in his house, and £100 on those in warehouse. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 442, ref. 809218; vol. 443, ref. 823364]
Hedges, John, Soho, London, looking-glass manufacturer (1817–29). Recorded at 31 Dean St and 53 Old Compton St in 1817; 14 Old Compton St in 1820; and 46–47 Dean St in 1829. Trade label found on rectangular gilt wood pier glass with pannelled surround, applied ribbon-ties, flower-heads and acorns; frieze with gadrooned urn with birds and entwined vine chaplets at the corners. Lable reads: ‘J. Hedges, Looking Glass Manufacturer &c. Corner of Dean and Compton Streets, Soho.’ [D; Sotheby's, 21 June 1968, lot 143; 3 July 1970, lot 85] See K. Hedges.
Hedges, John, 7 Gee St, Euston Sq., Somerton, London, cm and u (1835–39). [D]
Hedges, K., corner of Dean and Old Compton St, Soho, London, looking-glass manufacturer (1811–20). Recorded at 14 Old Compton St in 1819. Advertised in the Times, 2 April 1811, his ‘LOOKING-GLASS MANUFACTORY…Having every convenience within his premises of making and gilding frames of every description…’. He also offered to supply plate glass. [D] See John Hedges at this address.
Hedgland, John, Cowick St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1823–28). Daughter Fanny Sarah bapt. at St Thomas's Church on 14 December 1823, and son George on 23 November 1828. [PR (bapt.)]
Hedgman, Cornelius, 13 Little New St, Shoe Lane, London, water gilder (1808–16). [D]
Hedley, James, 1 Gloucester Pl., Chelsea, London, cm and u (1823). [D]
Heensley, Peter, Wednesday Mkt, Beverley, Yorks., cm and u (1818). [D]
Heffer, Edmund, 57 Chalton St, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Heffer, Edward, 30 Brewer St, Somerstown, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Heffer, John, Stanfield, Suffolk (?), gilder (1729). [S of G, app. index]
Heffer, Samuel, St Olave, Exeter, Devon, cm (1830–35). Recorded at Frierhay St in 1833. Children bapt. at St Olave's Church: son James Perry on 25 July 1830; daughter Matilda Maria on 25 November 1833; and son Samuel Thomas on 6 September 1835. [PR (bapt.)]
Hegan, Samuel Van, 66 Paradise St, Liverpool, carver (1790). [D]
Heitman, Detloffe, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (d.1678). [PCC, Wills, Index Lib., vol. 10, p. 165]
Helderbrant, Charles, 26 Coleman St, Lothbury, London, carver and gilder (1817). [D]
Hele, I. (J.), address unrecorded. ‘I.HELE’ recorded stamped under rail of early 19th-century armchair with stuffed back and seat on sabre legs.
Hele, John, at the sign of ‘The Looking Glass’, in King St, near Prince's St, St Ann's, Soho, London, cm (d.1746). Death reported in newspapers in 1746. [Heal]
Hele, John, Lowe's Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., joiner and cm (1818). [D]
Hele, John, Lower North St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1823). Daughter Eliza Caroline bapt. at St David's Church on 20 December 1823. [PR (bapt.)]
Heley, John, Penkahall St, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., cm and u (1835). [D]
Hellings, William, Queen St, London, cm (1784). [Poll bk]
Helm, Robert, 13 Lawley St, Birmingham, cm (1816). [D]
Helm, Robert, Helmet Row, Old St, London, cm, u, chairmaker and appraiser (1827–28). [D]
Helme, Charles, London, carver and gilder (1835–39). Addresses given at 41 Fenchurch St, 1835, and 32 Gt Sutton St, Clerkenwell, 1839. [D] Probably the C. Helme in partnership with T. Helme, 1826–27. See Thomas Helme.
Helme, T. & C., 15 Tabernacle Sq., Finsbury, London, carvers and gilders (1826–27). [D]
Helme, Thomas, London, carver and gilder (1835–39). Trading at 15 Tabernacle Sq., Finsbury, 1855–39, and at 81 Paul St, Finsbury in 1839, also as looking-glass frame maker. [D]
Helme, William, Lancaster, cm (1759). Took app. named Gardiner in 1759. [S of G, app. index]
Helme, William, Lancaster and Preston, Lancs., cm (1783–1801). Admitted freeman of Lancaster, 1783–84, when stated ‘of Preston’. Polled at Lancaster of Preston in 1784. Named in the Gillow records, 1799–1801. [Lancaster freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Helme, William, Liverpool, cm (1796–1814). Addresses given at 18 Baptist Lane, back of Gerrard St, 1796, and 12 Addison St, 1813–14. [D]
Helme, William, Garstang, Lancs., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Helmes, Robert, Norwich and London, chairmaker (1777–96). Polled at Gt Yarmouth of Norwich in 1777, and of London in 1796.
Helsby, George, 101 Portland St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Helsdon, —, address unrecorded. Mahogany chest of drawers recorded bearing maker's label. [C. Life, 21 February 1980, p. 547] Probably J. J. Helston.
Helsdon, James, 12 Castle Ct, Strand, London, u (1829). [D]
Helsdon, Langley, Norwich, chairmaker (1829). Son of Henry Helsdon, tin-plate worker; admitted freeman of Norwich on 26 August 1829. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Helsman, Charles, Preston St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1838). Daughter Louisa bapt. at St Mary Major on 16 September 1838. [PR (bapt.)]
Helston, J. J., 36 Gt Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, furniture broker, appraiser and undertaker (late 18th century). Mahogany breakfront bookcase recorded, the upper part with arcaded cornice and Gothic barred glazed doors, the lower part with fitted secretaire drawer flanked by drawers above cupboards with oval-pannelled doors; supported on a solid plinth. One small drawer with label. [Sotheby's, 26 January 1968, lot 41]
Helyer, Charles, 18 Noel St, Wardour St, London, u (1839). [D]
Hembrough, Peter, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Heming, George & Co., London. In 1772 submitted bill to Sir Edward Knatchbull of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent, for furnishings, metalwork, carvings etc., shipped to Kent, costing a total of £196 15s. [Kent RO, U951 A18/70]
Hemingway, Samuel, London, cm (1775). Bound as app. to Ince & Mayhew in 1775 for £210. [Furn. Hist., 1974]
Heminway, T., Cawthorne, Yorks., cm (1837). [D]
Hemmel, John, 3 Brewer St, London, broker, cm and upholder (1800). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 14 October 1800 for £1,000 of which £400 accounted for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 419, ref. 709301]
Hempson, John, 20 Neptune St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). [D]
Hemsley, Joseph, 16 Carthusian St, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hemsley, William, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1791). Son of John Hemsley of Gedling; taken as app. in 1791. [Nottingham app. list]
Hemstead, Henry, 89 Old St, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Henden (or Hender), Robert, at ‘The Cock’, Knave's Acre, St James's, Westminster, London, u (1725–26). Took out a sun Insurance policy on 18 March 1725 for £500 on goods and merchandise in his house in Pall Mall in occupation of Mr Thorp, u. Took out insurance in 1726. [GL, Sun MS vol. 21, ref. 38186; Heal]
Henderson, Alexander, Castle St, Leicester Fields, Westminster, London, cm (1749). [Poll bk]
Henderson, Alexander, Livery St, Birmingham, u (1816–18). [D]
Henderson, Andrew, 17 Moseley St, Newcastle, cm and u (1827–29). Recorded also at 13 Blackett St, probably his house, in 1827. [D]
Henderson, Christopher, Newcastle, joiner and cm (1787–95). Recorded at West end Denton-chair, 1787–90, and Side, 1795. Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D]
Henderson, David, 6 Broad St, Golden Sq., London, u (1808). [D]
Henderson, E., address unrecorded, carver and gilder (1839). Named in the Lord Chamberlain's accounts, Windsor Royal Archives, on 31 December 1839 receiving £45 2s 10d, including £17 2s 4d for ‘preparing the hop & ribbon moulding for glass frames to design, the ornaments boosted [?] and carved (in part)’.
Henderson, James, Gt Russell St, Bloomsbury, London, upholder (1780s–1800). Trading as Henderson & Co. at no. 115, 1796–1800. Nephew and successor in business to Daniel Sands. Involved in legal case between Kennett and Kidd in the 1780s. [D; PRO, C12 680/34; 259/18]
Henderson, James, New Bond St, London, carver and gilder (1823–37). Recorded at no. 80, 1823–25. Carried out repairs and jobbing work at St James's Palace, 1832–37. [D; PRO, LC11/80; 95–98; Joy, English Furniture, 1800–1851, p. 187]
Henderson, John, Chester, cm (1774–77). Son of William Henderson; app. to John Johnson, cm, 10 April 1774–30 January 1777. [Chester app. bks]
Henderson, John, Winchester, Hants., cm (b.1762–1797). Recorded in the St Mary Kalendar Book of Examinations of the Poor, 5 June 1797, as ‘Born Arleymarkey, county Fife, Scotland. Aged 35. Rented 8 years ago [1791] house of Surgeon Ford, in St. Botolph, Aldersgate Street, London at £16 p.a. for over 3 years. Married Ann 3 yrs. ago [1794] at St. Maur and has one child Olive 17 mos. About 10 years ago married Jane [1787] at St. James, Westminster, who has been dead 7 years and had 3 children by her, but only one living.’ [S of G, Winchester settlement papers]
Henderson, John Burdett, 2 Davies St, Liverpool, cm (1790). [D]
Henderson, John, London, cm, chair and sofa maker, u and appraiser (1809–39). Address given at 58 Newman St, Oxford St, 1809–11; 42 Windmill St, Tottenham Ct Rd, 1820–28 and 1835–39; and 152 Tottenham Ct Rd, 1827–28. [D] More than one tradesman may be concerned here.
Henderson, John, Kirkby Fleetham, Yorks., joiner and cm (1823). [D]
Henderson, John, Rotherhithe, London, carver and ship carver (1835–37). Trading at 15 Rotherhithe, 1835, and 6 Paradise Pl., 1837. [D]
Henderson, Robert, Maidenhead, Berks., carpenter and upholder (1783). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1783 for £700 of which £200 accounted for workshop, utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 314, p. 94]
Henderson, Robert, 51 Rupert St, Haymarket, London, cm, upholder and undertaker (1808–28). [D]
Henderson, Robert, 7 St George's St, Sheffield, Yorks., carver and gilder (1822–30). [D]
Henderson, William, Newcastle, upholder (1709–41). App. to Thomas Webster, and admitted freeman on 12 December 1709. Took apps named Richardson in 1712, Lambert in 1720, and Watson in 1728. Took out Sun Insurance policies for £500 on 24 June 1722 for goods and merchandise in his house; and on 22 October 1726 for £500. Possibly the William Henderson who supplied William Ramsay jnr, of Park House, Gateshead, c.1711–15, with a dozen walnut chairs at 8s 3d, two armchairs at 11s 9d, 66½, yards of ‘blew print’, and ‘1,000 gullets with nails and thread’. He also charged 5s for ‘hanging the room’, and 9s ‘for making three pair of window vallance and curtains’. [Poll bks; Newcastle freemen reg.; S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 14, ref. 21202; vol. 22, p. 425; E. Hughes, North Country Life in the 18th Century, the North-East, 1700–50, 1952, p. 49]
Henderson, William, London. One of Chippendale's employees who receipted the Duke of Atholl's account, dated 1758, on behalf of the firm. [Blair Castle papers]
Henderson, William, Chester, cm (1754–93). Addresses given at Nicholas St in 1789, and Lower Bridge St in 1792. Admitted freeman on 21 October 1779. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754, and Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. Took apps named Robert Clubb in 1787; Thomas Roberts and Coleclough in 1790; Litler in 1791; and George Todd, c.1793. [D; poll bk; Chester freemen rolls and app. bks]
Henderson, William James, 19 Northumberland St, Marylebone, London, cm and u (1835–39). [D]
Henderson & Rich, 424 Strand, London, u (1794). [D]
Hendrich, John, Bridge St, Warrington, Lancs., u (1778). Insured utensils, stock and goods for £250 out of a total of £300 in 1778. [GL, Sun MS vol. 268, p. 571]
Hendy, —, Newton Bushel, Devon, cm (1797–98). [D]
Heneage (or Hernage), Robert, York, cm (1777–1802). Of Butterwick, app. to John Wright, cm, on 10 December 1777. Assigned to William Hawkins, and admitted freeman in 1802. [York app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hen(n)ekin, George, London, carver and gilder (1784–1809). Addresses given at 9 Marylebone St, 1784, and 7 Charles St, Berners St, 1804–09. Neo-classical trade card with female figure and gryphon reads: ‘GEO. HENNEKIN, Carver & Gilder in General, N.° 9 Marylebone Street, GOLDEN SQUARE. Pictures & Prints, Framed & Glaz'd…’. Heal dates card to 1809. [D; poll bk; Banks Coll., BM] Possibly George Henniken.
Hen(n)ekin (Heneken or Henniken), Simon, London, carver and gilder (1749–76). Addresses given at Wardour St in 1749, and Edward St, opposite Broad St, Soho, 1763–76. Trade card with classical female figure, and putto sculpting a term reads: ‘CARVING and GILDING Either in the Building, Ship, Superior Furniture Way — Executed with the utmost expedition at Reasonable Prices… NB. Frames of all sorts made in the neatest taste.’ Described as ‘Eminent for making laymen for painters etc.’. Compiled an Album of Original Drawings, of upwards of 400 coats of arms, dated 1776. [D; poll bk; Heal]
Heness, Richard, Bristol, carver and gilder (1799–1838). Addresses given at St James's Churchyard, 1799–1801; 7 St Michael's Hill, 1807–09; St Michael's Hill, 1810–12; St John's St, 1813; 1 Queen St, St Michael's, 1819; and Callowhill St in 1838. [D]
Heness, Thomas, 15 Palace Row, New Rd, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Henessy, John, 12 King St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, cm (1837– 39). [D]
Henley, —, Newton Abbot, Devon, cm (1793–1809). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. Sale of dwelling house advertised in Exeter Flying Post, 20 July 1809.
Henley, John, 8 Robert St, London, wood carver, cm and bedpillar carver (1832–34). [D]
Henling (or Henlins), Peter, 1 Hunts Ct, St Martin's Lane, London, cm (1786). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 4 April 1786 for £200, of which utensils etc. accounted for £100. [GL, Sun MS vol. 336, p. 114]
Henman, John, 7 Charles St, City Rd, London, bed and mattress maker (1822–28). [D]
Hennen, John, 16 Cow Cross St, London, cm (1823). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 1 December 1823 for £150 on household goods in house of an umbrella maker, where no cabinet work was done; and £30 for a chest of tools in workshop of Blackman, cm, 7 Green St, Leicester Sq. [GL, Sun MS vol. 499, ref. 1010727]
Hennesy & Pelly, 105 Wardour St, Oxford St, London, u and dealers in second-hand furniture. George III mahogany ‘bonheur du jour’ recorded: the concave-fronted superstructure with four small drawers flanked by cupboards; and the lower part with two drawers, one fitted with a rising leather panel and compartments; raised on square tapering legs. The writing table bears label which gives address and trade, and reads: ‘Furniture Repaired, warehoused and packed. Funerals Conducted.’ [Sotheby's, 10 December 1971, lot 97]
Henniken, George, 1 Wethey Ct, White Cross St, London, cm (1775). Insured his house for £300 in 1775. [GL, Sun MS vol. 243, p. 521] Possibly George Hen(n)ekin.
Henniker, Sir John, Bart, 31 Litchfield St, Soho, London, chair and cm (1790–93). [D] See John Henning.
Henning, David, London, upholder (1782–1823). Recorded in partnership with Samuel Parke in Piccadilly before August 1782, when declared bankrupt, Gents Mag.; 23 Leicester Sq., 1794–1821; and 66 St James St, 1822–23. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803; and in the Windsor Royal Archives, on 10 January 1817 receiving £3 for ‘Taking down cleaning replacing furniture at the Opera Box.’ [D; RA 35509]
Henning, George, 112 Wardour St, Soho, London, chair and sofa maker (1820–28). Trading with Thomas Henning in 1820; and with Sawyer in 1823. [D]
Henning(s), George, 10 Broad St, Golden Sq., London, cm and chairmaker (1829–35). [D]
Henning, John, 31 Litchfield St, Soho, London, chair and cm (1790–93). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D] See Sir John Henniker.
Henningham, J. & G., 3 New Compton St, Soho, London, japanners and cabinet varnishers, ornamental painters of musical instruments (1812–19). [D]
Henry, G., address unrecorded, gilder (1792–95). Named in the account book, 1792–95 of Kennet & Kidd, cm and u, New Bond St, London. [PRO, C114/181, journal no. 3]
Henry, Girardus, 11 Union St, Oxford St, London, carver and gilder (1775–95). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1775 for £200, £50 on utensils and stock. On 12 October 1795 took app. named William Lipper for £32 6s. [GL, Sun MS vol. 242, p. 75; PRO, IRI/36]
Henry, John, 45 Little Bartholomew Close, London, cm (1824). Took out Sun Insurance for £400 on 8 January 1824. [GL, Sun MS vol. 497, ref. 1012464]
Hensell, Charles, 5 David St, Marylebone, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Henshaw, George, 3 North St, Fitzroy Sq., London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Henshaw, James, London, carver and gilder (1808–39). Addresses given at 1 Mason Pl., Somerstown in 1808; 53 Chapel St, Pentonville in 1835; and 61 Chapel St, 1837–39. [D]
Henshaw, John, Chester, cm (1789). Son of Mary Henshaw, widow; app. to Robert Adams, cm, 20 August to 3 December 1789. [Chester app. bks]
Henshaw, John, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1796–1808). Son of James Henshaw, fish-hook maker of Nottingham; taken as app. in 1796. Took apps named Sam. Littlewood in 1807 and John Shelton in 1808. [Nottingham app. list]
Henshaw, William, ‘The Cabinet & Chair’, South side of St Paul's Churchyard, London, cm (1754–73). A member of the Joiners’ Co. His trade card indicates that he made and sold ‘all Sorts of Glass, Chair and Cabinet Work’. The card is framed in the Rococo manner with figures of Chinamen and engravings of a chair and cabinet on stand in the Chippendale style. Patronage was invited from ‘Gentlemen, Merchants and Others’. In 1754 Henshaw subscribed to Chippendale's Director. Henshaw took out licences to employ non-freemen in 1757–58 and 1770–72. These licences covered the employment of three or four men only on a short-term basis. He took as app. in 1759 Richard Brocas at a premium of £31 10s and William Goldsmith at £10 10s. In 1761 John White was also taken as app. at a premium of £40. By 1763 his premises in St Paul's Churchyard had been numbered 18 and by 1770 he had taken a partner, Henry Kettle, who was to continue the business alone after c. 1773. [D; Heal; GL, City Licence bks, vols 1, 3 and 7] B.A.
Henshaw, William, address unrecorded. In August 1667 supplied inlaid cabinet, table and stands to the Duke of Richmond. [Charles Stuart, Duke of Richmond papers, vol. 4, bills 1661–73: notes from Symonds papers, Winterthur, Delaware in V&A archives]
Henshaw, William, St Matthew's St, Ipswich, Suffolk, carver and gilder (1824). [D]
Hensman, Thomas, New St, Birmingham, cm and u (1809–35). Recorded at no. 15, 1814–22, and no. 18 in 1830–35. Submitted bill to Mrs Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks. on 26 April 1814 totalling £29 7s 2d, and including ‘A Maho.g Loo Table on a Grecian Claw Stand, best Castors’, £12 12s; ‘A fine green Cloth cover to D° made up with silk binding’, £1 2s; Kidderminster carpeting costing £21 3s 6d, cut and fitted over Brussels carpeting; and a hearth rug. The bill head gave address of manufactory and warerooms at 15 New St, which contained ‘a general Assortment of elegant Furniture’. Trade card, c.1800–15, recorded. [D; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5; Landauer Coll., MMA, NY]
Hensman, W. D., High St, Thrapston, Northants., cm/joiner (1823). [D]
Henzell, Gabriel, Newcastle, joiner, cm and house carpenter (1783–1824). Recorded at Flesh Mkt, 1783–1809; and Bigg Mkt in 1824 as G. Henzell jnr. In 1783 advertised in Newcastle Courant, 24 May, ‘that his Mother having declined the Joiner and Cabinet business… he intends carrying on the Business, in all its branches, at his Shops in the Flesh-market … Apprentice wanted.’ ‘Mrs. Henzell, inkeeper’ recorded in Flesh Mkt in 1801. In Newcastle Courant, 22 April 1809, Gabriel Henzell announced that he had commenced business as appraiser and auctioneer. [D]
Henzell, William, Newcastle, joiner and cm (1775–87). Addresses given at St Nicholas's Churchyard in 1778, and Bigg Mkt, 1787. Named in Newcastle Courant, 2 December 1775 as cosignator of letter supporting Britain in American War. [D]
Hepbourne, Francis, Annapolis, USA, late of London, cm and chairmaker (1769). Advertised in Maryland Gazette, 22 June 1769.
Heppel(l(), John, 53 Wigmore St, Cavendish Sq., London, upholder (1793–1816). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Hepple, Tristram, Blyth, Northumb., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hepplewhite, Alice & Co., see George Hepplewhite.
Hepplewhite, George, Redcross St, Cripplegate, London, cm (d. 1786). A very elusive figure recorded in only one trade directory [Lowndes, 1786] as Kepplewhite & Son (sic), cm of 48 Redcross St. At Christmas 1785 George Applewhite (sic) snr and jnr took out a Sun Insurance policy on the premises of which ‘utensils and stock’ accounted for £500. [GL, Sun MS vol. 327, p. 32] Another son John living at the same address subscribed to George Richardson's Treatise on the Five Orders of Architecture, 1787. [Liverpool RO, 920 GKE/2/20] The father died intestate and administration was granted on 27 June 1786 to his widow, Alice; accounts were passed in December and again in June 1787 showing that his estate was worth less than £600. [PRO, Prob. 6/162, p. 300] A notice in the Public Ledger, 10 October 1786 announced that ‘the valuable stock in trade and household furniture of Mr Hepplewhite, cabinet manufacturer deceased’ were to be sold by auction. Two years after his death I. & J. Taylor published a folio volume of furniture designs, The Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer's Guide, from drawings by ‘A Hepplewhite & Co., Cabinet-Maker’, suggesting that his widow continued the business. Advertisements for this book in the Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 18 January 1788 and Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 18 February 1788 show that it cost £2 2s and was promoted by subscription. The Guide was reprinted with one additional plate and minor alterations in 1789, while a third ‘improved’ edition appeared in 1794 containing an extra plate and a free revision of the designs for chairs. Six engravings in The Cabinet-Makers’ London Book of Prices, 1793, are signed ‘Hepplewhite’ or ‘Heppelwhite’.
The note to plate X states that a hall chair ‘has been executed with good effect for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’, but no bills for furniture supplied by the firm have ever been traced. Accordingly, Hepplewhite's fame rests entirely on the pattern book issued by his widow; none of the plates are signed so even his authorship of the designs is open to doubt. However, the Guide provides a valuable record of respectable household furniture dating from the mid 1780s which, in the words of the preface seeks ‘to unite elegance and utility, and blend the useful with the agreeable’; the writer further states ‘we designedly followed the latest and most prevailing fashions’. In 1791 Sheraton criticized Hepplewhite's designs, particularly the chairs, observing they have ‘already caught the decline’, a jibe which explains the revisions to the 1794 edition. There is no evidence for the tradition that Hepplewhite was app. to Gillows, apart from the rather striking resemblance of some plates in the Guide to certain drawings in their Estimate Sketch Books; indeed they informed a customer on 27 March 1801 ‘We have not Hebblethwaite's Publication and are at a loss to know the form of the Brackets you approve of…’. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records] C.G.G.
Heptinstall, Joseph, Edmund St, Birmingham, cm, u and broker (1830). [D]
Heptinstall, William, address unrecorded, u (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hepworth, J., 12 Little St Martin's Lane, Long Acre, London, cm, u and undertaker (1795–1806). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Hepworth, James, Raistrick, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hepworth, John, Brighouse, Halifax, Yorks., cm, u and joiner (1828–34). Trading as John Hepworth & Son, 1830–34, at Hipperholme-cum-Brighouse in 1830. [D]
Hepworth, Joseph, Brighouse, Halifax, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hepworth, Thomas, Snaith, near Selby, Yorks., cm and house carpenter (1822–26). [D]
Hepworth, William, 33 Bond St, Golden Sq., London, cm and upholder (1816–29). [D]
Hepworth, William, 53 Market St, Bradford, Yorks., cm (1834). [D]
Herbert, Charles, 5 Punderson Pl., Bethnal Green Rd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Herbert, Edward Geoffrey, Lancaster, joiner and cm (1811–12). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Herbert, John, Lancaster, ‘glazier and maker’ (1796–1840). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Herbert, John, Lancaster, cm (1820–29). App. to L. Redmayne in 1820, and admitted freeman, 1828–29. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Herbert, Peter, Exeter, Devon, cm (1816). [Poll bk]
Herbert, Peter, St Michael's parish, Bristol, cm (1781–84). [D]
Herbert, Thomas, Marske, Yorks., joiner, cm and/or cartwright (1834). [D]
Herford, —, King St, Soho, London, cm (1745). Notice in London Evening Post, 5–7 February 1745, read: ‘On Saturday Night as one Mr. Herford, a Cabinet Maker in King Street, Soho, was passing by the Seven Dials, he was attack'd by Three Ruffians who robb'd him of Eighteen Shillings and some Half Pence, and got off with their Booty.’
Herley, James, 5 Whitmore St, Hoxton, London, desk, writing box and cm (1839). [D]
Herman, Julius David, 16 Soho Sq., London, carver and gilder (1837–39). [D]
Hermann, Louis, 4 Greek St, Soho, London, carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Hermow & Son, Richard, 22 King St, St James's London. Named in the Windsor Royal Archives, Lord Chamberlain's accounts on 19 January 1838, receiving £2 for ‘2 Wine Coolers Lined with Lead.’
Hernage, Robert, 11 Vaughan's Buildings, Old Haymarket, London, cm (1835–37). [D]
Herne, Richard, Brook St, Holborn, London, u (1765). [D]
Herod, Edward, 6 Castle St, Long Acre, London, broker and u (1808). [D]
Heron, J. & T., Manchester, cm (1826). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 10 March 1826. Probably John and Thomas.
Heron, John, New Bailey St, Manchester, cm and chairmaker (1811–29). Trading at no. 8, 1811–22; and no. 6, 1824–29. [D] See Thomas Heron.
Heron, John & Son, Jones St, Salford, Lancs., cm (1828). [D]
Heron, Thomas, 6 New Bailey St, Manchester, cm (1828). [D]
Herrin, William, Millburngate, Durham, upholder (1757). Took app. named Smith in 1757. [S of G, app. index]
Herring, Ann, 17 Trinity St, Bristol, house-upholsterer (1775). [D]
Herring, George, High St, Newington Butts, London, cm (1804–28). Trading at 2 Fredericks Pl., High St in 1804; 20 High St, 1809 and 1822–28; and no. 14 in 1817. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 7 May 1804 for £200, £80 accounting for stock and utensils; and on 23 October 1809 for £450, £150 on stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 430, ref. 762344; vol. 443, ref. 836174] See Joseph Herring.
Herring, Henry, 13 Lad Lane, London, cm and wholesale upholder (1735–68). Herring, Smith & Slack, successors to Henry Herring, were trading at this address, 1763–68. [D; Heal]
Herring, Henry, London, u and warehouseman (1743–71). Recorded in St Lawrence Jewry, on 11 January 1743/44 when admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by redemption. Took apps named John Smith, 1743–57, and George Humphries, 1763–71. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Herring, James, address unrecorded, upholder (1787–94). Son of James Herring of Devizes, Wilts.; app. to John Phillips on 22 March 1787, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 April 1794. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Herring, James, address unrecorded. Submitted bill to G. Wentworth of Woolley Hall, Yorks., for furniture and upholstery supplied between January and March 1795, totalling £39 3s. [YAS, Wentworth papers, MD 272/2]
Herring, John, 11 Queen St, Hoxton, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Herring, John, 9 Thomas St, Whitechapel, London, wood carver and cm (1839). [D]
Herring, Joseph, 20 High St, Newington, London, blind and cm (1820). [D] See George Herring.
Herring, Robert, Fleet St, London, upholder, cm, appraiser, auctioneer and undertaker (1769–1839). Presumably two tradesmen, snr and jnr, the latter being called Robert William Herring. Recorded at 96 Fleet St, 1771–83; and no. 109, 1784–1839. Trade card showing draped four-post bedstead gives address at 109 Fleet St. [Banks Coll., BM] Admitted Freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by redemption on 1 November 1769. Took apps named Joseph Clowes, 1776–83, and William Chivers, 1785–94. Fined for non-service at St Bride's, 1779, 1821 and 1827; and served as Collector for the Poor in 1789. [GL, MS 6561, p. 110] Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1780 for £1,000, of which £500 accounted for utensils and stock; and on 28 December 1807 for £1,800, of which stock and utensils accounted for £1,050. Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, and named in his list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 281, p. 100; vol. 442, ref. 812191]
Herring, William, Castlegate, Penrith, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–34). [D]
Herring & Co., 112 Wardour St, Soho, London, chair manufacturers (1816). [D]
Herrington, H., High St, Wandsworth, London, cm (1838). [D]
Herrol, John, Strangeways, Manchester, cm (1804). [D]
Hersant, Charles, 25 Old Bethlem, London, cm, u and auctioneer (1822–23). [D]
Hersant (or Horsant), John, 2 Brokers Row, Moorfields, London, cm, u and undertaker (1820–21). [D]
Hersant, W., 2 Brokers Row, Moorfields, London, cm and u (1823–25). [D]
Hertoch, Jacob, address unrecorded, frame maker (1702). Enlarged two Italian pictures of architectural subjects for overdoors in the 2nd Duchess of Bedford's drawing room, probably at Bedford House, London. [Bedford Office, London]
Hervé, François, Johns (or John) St, London, cm and chairmaker (1781–96). While François Hervé is known to have worked for the most fashionable and fastidious patrons, such as the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Devonshire and Earl Spencer, he still remains a shadowy figure. His name is virtually absent from the London directories, but two entries of 1790 and 1793 record that an ‘F. Herve chairmaker’ worked at 32 Johns St, off Tottenham Ct Rd. He had earlier been in partnership with John Meschain of the same address. Both names appear on a brass tablet found upon a folding library table-cum-steps, of their invention (Fig. 43). Meschain is recorded from at least 1769 as a cabriole chairmaker, and in 1770 he took app. named Gabriel Laurent La Porte, presumably also of French extraction. [Boyd's index to IR app. reg., 4, p. 682] In January 1769 he supplied ‘18 French Cabriolets’ at £1 7s each to Shelburne House, Berkeley Sq., London. [Bowood MS] In 1777 ‘John Meschain, cabinet and chairmaker’ took out an insurance policy for £600 on premises at 32 St John St, his utensils and stock being covered for £350. In 1781 Meschain was rated upon a £30 rental — a higher figure than for most others in the street, but was superseded there by Hervé from 1781 until at least 1791. He had moved to 64 John St by 1796, presumably in larger premises across the street (now the middle part of Whitfield St) and was well placed in a still fashionably developing part of London. Whether Francis Hervé fell on harder times is uncertain, but that name is recorded in Holden's 1808 directory as a turner and brushmaker in Kingsgate St, Theobald Rd. In 1782 the John St premises were insured by Catherine Mortel, spinster, with £200 attributable to the workshop and £500 to Hervé's utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 298, p. 385]
Hervé's style is now best represented by the documented pieces at Chatsworth where it can be seen as a light, elegant and adroit mixture of English and French detail. Thus the back legs of his chairs are splayed in the English manner, while some of his carved detail, for example the interlocked Cscrolls or the undulating shaping of his chair backs is wholly French, and a very conservative survival of the Rococo motifs of the 1750s. Most extant Hervé pieces were either painted to harmonize with the soft furnishings elsewhere in the rooms concerned or were gilded. In directory entries Hervé described himself as ‘a cabriole chairmaker’. Many of his chairs have caned backs or seats, and, to reduce costs, he sometimes employed ‘composition’ ornaments in substitution for handcarving. His output included beside seat furniture, pier tables, state beds and chandeliers. Hervé worked in conjunction with well-known architects such as John Carr at Chatsworth (for the Duke of Devonshire), and perhaps at Welbeck (for Devonshire's brother-in-law, the Duke of Portland) with James Wyatt; at Heveningham (for either Sir Gerard Vanneck, or his brother, later created the 1st Lord Huntingfield) and with Henry Holland at Althorp for Earl Spencer; and at Carlton House for George, Prince of Wales. There is no firm evidence that Hervé was dependent upon any of those architects for furniture designs though the proportions of several of his larger pieces were determined by the spaces allotted for them within those architects’ designs. Hervé was also linked with his fellow Frenchmen, such as Guillaume Gaubert at both Chatsworth and Carlton House. The style of his documented pieces embodies certain distinctive features, among them the stepping down of the seat rails at their junction with the legs, a sensible constructional device that retained the slender elegance of the seat rails while providing a stronger joint at the leg junctions. The top-most part of the leg is frequently a quadrant in plan, sometimes overlaid with a patera or a half patera of radiating petals or foliage. The leg below the seat frame often has a turned necking band deeper than that found upon wholly English chairs, and the flutes of the legs are sometimes further enriched with reeding or with the carved chandelles that are also French in inspiration.
CHATSWORTH, Derbs. (5th Duke of Devonshire). 1782–85: Supplied numerous suites of upholstered and caned seat furniture, many of which can still be identified at the house. [I. Hall, ‘A neoclassical episode at Chatsworth’, Burlington, June 1980, pp. 400–14]
CARLTON HOUSE, London (Prince of Wales). 1783–94: Supplied considerable amounts of furniture for interiors, notably the Chinese Drawing Room. [Burlington, September 1967, pp. 518–28; Conn., June 1977, pp. 116–25]
WINDSOR CASTLE (George III). 1789–92: Received payments on account 10 October 1789, £100 and 8 August 1792, £150. [Windsor RA 88736 and 88812]
ALTHORP, Northants. (Lady Spencer). 1791: A bill dated 25 January 1791 invoices ‘6 Cabriole Backstools’ at £2 0s 6d each and ‘2 Tete a Tete to match’ at £3 13s each ‘by order of Messrs Holland and Daguire’. [Apollo, June 1968, pp. 271–72]
WOBURN ABBEY, Beds. (5th Duke of Bedford). 1791: Paid £45 7s 7d in December 1791 for unspecified work by order of Henry Holland. [Bedford Office, London]
BROADLANDS, Hants. (2nd Viscount Palmerston): A furniture design is inscribed ‘Herve’. [C. Life, 5 Feburary 1981, p. 346]
LIBRARY STEPS (with label). Sets of library steps that fold down to form a table have been recorded with the inscription on a wood tablet ‘Herve Fecit No. 32 John Street/Tottenham Court Road’; an example is at the V&A (W.7–1932). Other sets bear brass labels engraved ‘Invented & SOLD BY MESCHAIN & HERVÉ, No. 32 in Johns Street TOTTENHAM Court ROAD’ (Sotheby's, 7 July 1967, lot 167). There is a signed set at Heveningham Hall, Suffolk. I.H.
Heselden (or Heseldon), John, Lancaster, cm (1784–d.1811). Death reported in Lancaster Gazette, 21 January 1811. [Poll bk]
Hesketh, Thomas, Chester, cm (1818–26). Addresses given at Common-Hall St in 1818 and Northgate St, 1819–26. Admitted freeman in 1818. [Chester freemen rolls and poll bks]
Heskin, Sidney, Liverpool, u (1827). App. to William Bickerstaff in 1827. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Hescox & Cooper, 105 Aldersgate St, London, cm and joiner (1808). [D]
Heslop, George, Westgate, Ripon, Yorks., cm and joiner (1822–29). [D]
Heslop, Thomas, Richmond, Yorks., u (1823–40). Addresses given at Rosemary Lane, 1823; Finkle St in 1827; and Maison Dieu, 1840. [D]
Hesp, John, Eastgate, Pickering, Yorks., joiner and cm (1840). [D]
Hesseldon, Isaac, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1787–1800. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hesseldon, Isaac jnr, Lancaster, caner (1800). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records, vol. 344/98, p. 1598]
Hesseldon, John, London, cm (1784). [Lancaster poll bk]
Hesseldon, John, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1785–1807. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hestlow, Joseph, 13 New St, Cloth Fair, London, cm (1809– 11). [D]
Hetherington, Francis, 15 Gt Newton St, Manchester, cm (1794). [D]
Hetherington, George, Front St, Brampton, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1829). [D]
Hetherington, Jonathan, Kirkgate, Cockermouth, Cumb., cm and joiner (1828–29). [D]
Hetherington, Michael, Strand St, Whitehaven, Cumb., looking-glass manufacturer (1811). [D]
Hetl(e)y, Thomas, Witch St, London, upholder (1709–16). Took out Hand in Hand Insurance policies on 29 April 1709 and April 1716 for £225 on his house; and a Sun policy on 7 July 1716 on goods and merchandise in his house. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 7, ref. 2676; vol. 15, p. 621; GL, Sun MS vol. 5, ref. 6964] Possibly the Thomas Hetley, u, who supplied upholstery and furniture to Hatfield House, Herts., 1710–11. In June 1710 he was paid £233 18s including £21 3s for a wainscot bedstead; £20 for a woodwork tester; and £5 for six walnut framed chairs and two square stools. In December 1710 he received £100 in part for upholstery; and in May 1711, £267 for general supply of materials. [Hatfield House, MS bills 473] Named in the Felbrigg, Norfolk papers on 5 March 1710 receiving £50; and in February 1711, £40. [Norfolk RO, Felgrigg papers, WKC 6/23]
Hetley & Purvis, High St, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumb., cm and u (1827). [D]
Heward, John, Brampton, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Hewatt, C., Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records in 1813 working on a screen, and in 1814 on a press. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/99, pp. 1943 and 1967]
Hewell, William, Barnstaple, Devon, cm (1745–53). Took apps named Price in 1745 and Dark in 1753. [S of G, app. index]
Hewetson, George, 19 Noel St, London, cm (1808). [D]
Hewetson, John, 36 Lower Marsh, Lambeth, London, cm and buhl manufacturer (1822–28). [D]
Hewetson, John, Basin, Pimlico, London, cm (1829). [D]
Hewetson, Thomas, 59 Portplace Lane, London, carver and fret cutter (1835). [D]
Hewetson, Thomas, 8 Robert St, Bedford Row, London, wood carver and cm (1839). [D]
Hewetson, Thomas, William & John, 204 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, cm, u and dealer in carpets (1839–40). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1840. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 574, ref. 1328756]
Hewetson Brothers, 185 Oxford St, London, u (1839). [D]
Hewett, —, Shrewsbury, Salop, u (1798). [D] Probably Thomas Hewett.
Hewett, G., Deacon Ct, Southampton, Hants., cm (1836). [D]
Hewett, James, St Peter St, Tiverton, Devon, cm (1830–38). [D]
Hewett (or Hewitt), James, West St, Farnham, Surrey, turner and chairmaker (1832–38). [D]
Hewett, John, Liverpool, cm (d.1811). Death of this ‘eminent cabinet maker’ in Liverpool on 7 August 1811 reported in Liverpool Mercury, 16 August. See John and Thomas Hewit(t) of Liverpool.
Hewett, Mary, Fuller St, Church Row, Church St, Bethnal Green, London, chairmaker (1814). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 20 July 1814 for £450, £150 accounting for stock, utensils and workshop. [GL, Sun MS vol. 461, ref. 895716] See Richard and William Hewett.
Hewett, Richard, 23 Fuller St, Bethnal Green, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D] See Mary and William Hewett.
Hewett, William, Castleford, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hewett, William, Fuller St, Bethnal Green, London, Windsor chair and sofa maker (1829–39). Recorded as W. & R. Hewett at no. 29, 1827–29, and alone at no. 31, 1835–39. [D] See Richard Hewett.
Hewett & Jefferson, Sunderland, Co. Durham, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. Possibly John F. Hewitt.
Hewick, Charles, Clayton St, Colne, Lancs., u (b. c. 1796–1841). Recorded in the 1841 Census as not of local origin.
Hewison, Richard, Louth, Lincs., cm and joiner (1826–28). Recorded at Westgate in 1826 and Upgate in 1828. [D]
Hewit, Charles Daniel, 3 New North St, Finsbury, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hewit, John snr, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hants., cm (1780). Insured his house for £100 in 1780. [GL, Sun MS vol. 288, p. 160]
Hewit(t), John, Liverpool, cm (1769–1803). Addresses given at School Lane, 1769–73; 19 Tarleton St, 1774; no. 23 in 1781 and 1794; no. 24 in 1790; no. 26 in 1796; as Hewit & Son at no. 23 in 1800 and no. 26, 1800–03. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 21 July 1792 for £400, including £100 on workshops and utensils in yard. Marriage of John Hewitt jnr, cm of Tarleton St to Miss Smith, daughter of Captain Smith of Hunter St, at St Ann's Church, reported in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 11 February 1799. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 388, p. 331] Presumably two related tradesmen are concerned here. See George Hewitt.
Hewit, John, 4 Fleet St, Hanover St, Liverpool, cm (1800). [D]
Hewit, Nathaniel, address unrecorded, upholder (1740–47). Son of Samuel Hewit, Gent. of St Saviour's, Southwark; app. to Ambrose Pearman on 4 June 1740, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 July 1747. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Possibly Nathaniel Hewitt.
Hewit(t), Thomas, Shrewsbury, Salop, u (1780–86). Trading in Market Pl., 1786. [D; Shrewsbury burgess roll] See Hewett, —.
Hewit & Tyrer, 30 Sparling St, Liverpool, cm (1805–07). [D]
Hewitt, —, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1794 and 1815. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hewitt, Catherine, Wolverhampton, Staffs., chair bottom rusher (1838). [D]
Hewitt, George, Liverpool, u (1817–39). Addresses given at 28 Tarleton St, 1835–37, and 26 Virgil St, 1839. App. to George Philander Lyon in 1817, and admitted freeman, as George Wood Hewitt, on 2 November 1826. [D; Liverpool app. enrolment bk and freemen reg.]
Hewitt, Henry, Knotty Ash, West Derby, Lancs., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hewitt, John, London, upholder, dealer and chapman (1760–86). Recorded in Gt George St, Hanover Sq., 1769– 72, and George St, 1774–86. Son of Edward Hewitt, tallow chandler of St George's; app. to Thomas Dobyns on 3 July 1760, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 1 October 1767. Named in Bailey's List of bankrupts, January 1774; and as bankrupt in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 8 June 1774. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hewitt, John, London (?). In 1771 supplied furniture to Charles Long of Saxmundham, Suffolk, totalling £8 0s 6d: on 12 March a ‘Mahogany Shirt horse’; on 23 May ‘A Mahogany Box with a good lock and Key’; and on 24 May, two pairs of Wilton bedside carpets and a pair of Scotch carpets. [Suffolk RO, 18/EC/6]
Hewitt, John, cm (1777). See John Tilleard.
Hewitt, John, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hewitt, John F., Sunderland, Co. Durham, cm (1798–1827). Trading at Coronation St, Bishop Wearmouth in 1827. [D] Possibly of Hewett & Jefferson.
Hewitt, John & William, 131 and 160 Goswell St, London, kitchen furniture and lamps, wholesale dealer in lanthorn leaves (1819–37). [D]
Hewitt, John, Downley, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b.c. 1791–1841). Aged 50 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hewitt, (or Hewett), Nathaniel, at ‘The Crown & Cushion’, near St Thomas's Gate, Southwark (42 Borough), London, u, appraiser and undertaker (1768–77). Rococo trade card reads: ‘Makes & Sells all Sorts of fashionable Standing Beds, Feather Beds, Blankets, Quilts, Ruggs, Coverlets, Flanders and English Ticking; Also Leather, Cane and Matted Bottom Chairs at reasonable Rates, Wholesale or Retail. N.B. All Sorts of Cabinet Work at the lowest Price.’ [D; Heal] Possibly Nathaniel Hewit.
Hewitt, Phillip, Chapel St, Stockwell, London, u (1839). [D]
Hewitt (or Hewett), Richard, Upton-cum-Chalvey, Slough, Bucks., chairmaker and wheeler (d.1777). Windsor chair of elm, fruitwood, ash, beech and stained red recorded, bearing fragments of paper label on the bottom of the seat, reading ‘RICHARD HEWETT / CHAIR-MAKER, / At Slough, in the …ar Windsor, / MAKES and sells…Forest Chairs / and all sorts…’. Described at his burial, 7 September 1777 as a wheeler, or wheelwright. [Coll. of T. Crispin; Furn. Hist., 1978, pl. 53B; 1979, pl. 84; Exhib. Cat., Common Furniture, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1982]
Hewitt, Robert, Stanwix, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Hewitt, Thomas, 14 Ann St, Pentonville, London, upholder (1793). Son of John Hewitt, upholder; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 7 August 1793. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hewit(t), Thomas, Tarleton St, Church St, Liverpool, cm (1800–d.1816). Trading at no. 23, 1800–04; no. 26 with shop at 8 Church Alley, St Peter's, 1805–07; no. 25, 1813– 14, with shop at 8 Church Alley in 1814; and 24 Tarleton St, 1816. Signed supplement to the Liverpool Cabinet and Chair Prices, 1805, on behalf of the masters. Death reported in Liverpool Mercury, 6 December 1816. Notice from Hewitt's widow in the same paper on 20 March 1818 read: ‘TO CABINET-MAKERS & OTHERS, TO BE LET, And may be entered upon immediately THAT old established Concern in the Cabinet Making Business, belonging to the late Mr. Thomas Hewitt, in Tarleton-street, Liverpool, where it has been carried on with reputation & advantage for the last forty years…’. [D] See John Hewit(t) and George Hewitt.
Hewitt, Thomas, 45 Richmond St, Manchester, cm (1817). [D]
Hewitt, Thomas, 3 Market St, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1839). [D]
Hewitt, William, North Walsham, Norfolk, cm (1830–39). Trading at Queen St in 1839. [D]
Hewitt, William, William IV Yd, Stockton-on-Tees, Co. Durham, cm (1832). [D]
Hewitt, William, Pontefract, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hewkins, Henry, 8 Tarr's Ct, Manchester, cm (1804). [D]
Hewlett, Charles, Royal Colonnade, New Rd, Brighton, Sussex, u, paper hanger and undertaker (1822–27). Recorded at Marine St in 1822, 2 New Rd, 1824, and 2 Royal Colonnade, 1826. Son Frederick Charles, by wife Martha Hewlett, bapt. on 20 March 1822, and son Frederick on 22 March 1826. [D; E. Sussex RO, PR (bapt.)]
Hewlett, Charles, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1830). [Shrewsbury burgess roll] See William Hewlitt.
Hewlett, George, Wenlock, Salop, cm (1822). [D]
Hewlett, John, Bristol, cm, u and undertaker (1805–13). Addresses given at 7 Bath St, 1805, no. 15, 1806–12; and 10 Bridge St and 51 Redcliff Hill in 1813. [D]
Hewlett, John, Eastgate St, Gloucester, cm, u, auctioneer, appraiser and chairmaker (1820–23). Possibly the J. Hewlett, cm and chairmaker at Bell Lane, c.1822. [D] See Hewlett & Warner.
Hewlett, Robert, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, chairmaker (1761). Took app. named Whitcher in 1761. [S of G, app. index]
Hewlett, Robert, Poole, Dorset, chairmaker (1823–40). Trading at Fish St, 1823–30, and Langland St, 1840. [D]
Hewlett, Stephen, Langland St, Poole, Dorset, chairmaker (1840). [D]
Hewlett, William, Castle St (or Foregate), Shrewsbury, Salop, cm and u (1822–35). [D]
Hewlett & Warner, Eastgate St, Gloucester, cm and u (1830). [D] See John Hewlett.
Hewlings, Samuel, Reading, Berks., upholder (1777). [Poll bk]
Hewlins, P., 15 St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, London, cm etc. (1792–94). [D]
Hewlin(s), Peter, Strand, London, cm and u, Tunbridge manufacturer (1802–14). Trading at no. 2, 1802–03, and no. 164, 1807–14. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Hewlitt, William, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm and u (1822–28). [D] See Charles Hewlett.
Hewson, J. Bothomley, Wollaton, Notts., cm (1832). [D]
Hewson, Thomas, 8 Yardley St, Spitalfields, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hey, James, Eldon St, Finsbury Circus, London, cm (1826–35). Trading at no. 19, 1826–27, and no. 5, 1829–35. [D]
Hey, John, Liversedge, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hey, William, Church St, Whitby, Yorks., cm/chairmaker (1840). [D]
Heyes, Ann, 28 Marlborough St, Liverpool, u (1835). [D] See Ann Heywood.
Heyes, J., Liverpool, cm (1824). Sale of stock by Stewart & Benton advertised in Liverpool Mercury, 12 November 1824. Notice read: ‘HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE of a very superior description, the property of Mr. J. HEYES, Cabinet maker (who is removing from the premises he at present occupies in consequence of their being sold) consisting of Mahogany Pembroke, Card & Sofa Tables, Trafalgar Chairs, Sets of Drawers, Mahogany Circular Loo Table, Secretaires, Bookcases & wardrobes, a handsome & complete Gentleman's Writing Table & Secretaire, Ladies’ Mahogany & Rosewood Work Tables, on a new plan, a complete set of superb Drawing-room Tables, in Rosewood, richly inlaid, & of exquisite workmanship & beauty…’.
Heyes, John, 59 Bridge St, Manchester, u (1811). [D]
Heyland, Charles, Liverpool, cm (1819). App. to Richard Holliwell in 1819. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Heyley, William, Milford St, Salisbury, Wilts., cm and u (1830). [D]
Heys, Henry, Marsden Sq., Haslingden, Lancs., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Heywood, Ann, 28 Marlborough St, Liverpool, u (1835). [D] See Ann Heyes.
Heywood, Edward, 27 London Rd, Liverpool, chairmaker (1807). [D]
Heywood, John, 49 Gravel Lane, Salford, Lancs., cm (1797–1804). [D]
Heywood, John, 53 London Rd, Manchester, cm (1813). [D]
Heywood, John, Manor St, Bolton, Lancs., cm and u (1816–18). [D]
Heywood, Martin, Halstead, Essex, u (b.1699–1759). Named in the Essex freeholders book for Hinekford Hundred in 1759 as owning estate in Colne Engaine when aged 60. [Essex RO, Q/RJ1/2]
Hezlewood, Moses, Whitby, Yorks., cm and u (1823–40). Addresses given in Flowergate, 1823, Golden Lion Bk (?), 1828–29, and Baxtergate, 1840. [D]
Hiam, Edward Somerset, 12 Bull & Mouth St, London, u (1780). Insured his house for £200 in 1780. [GL, Sun MS vol. 286, p. 192)
Hiam, J., London, carver and gilder (1835–37). Recorded at 14 Pantechnicon Area, Belgrave Sq., 1835, and 6 Pantechnicon Arcade, 1835–37. Late Regency carved and gilt box recorded inscribed ‘HIAM from London, Carver & gilder, etc.’ [D; V&A archives]
Hiatt, William, 16 Milk St, Bristol, furniture and ornamental painter, house and sign painter (1838–40). [D]
Hibbeart, John, Hull, Yorks., cm (1780). [Poll bk] Probably John Hibbert.
Hibberd, William, Blandford St Mary, Blandford Forum, Dorset, cm, u and builder (1830). [D]
Hibberdine, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1712–44). Son of William Hibberdine of Woodstock, Oxon.; app. to Thomas Dawson on 19 February 1712. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 25 January 1722/23. Took apps named Peter Fleuriot, 1726–33, and Samuel Hibberdine, 1742–44. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Possibly:
Hibberdine, John, Philpot Lane, London, upholder (1744). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., October 1744.
Hibberdine, Samuel, address unrecorded, upholder (1742–d.1776). Son of William Hibberdine, surgeon of Swerford, Oxon.; app. to John Hibberdine on 29 July 1742, and Samuel Walker, draper, on 16 November 1744. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 August 1759. Took apps named William Hill, 1749–58, John Fisher, 1757–65, and Richard Mayow, 1760–67. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hibberdine, William, Crutched Friars, London, upholder (1792–1802). Trading at no. 27 in 1792. Son of Samuel Hibberdine, freeman upholder of London. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 3 October 1792. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hibbert, Charles, Back Wallgate, Macclesfield, Cheshire, cm (1816). [D]
Hibbert, John, London, u (1668–d.1717). Trading in Bartholomew Close by 1717, when he died and was succeeded at this address by his partner, Philip Bodham. [Heal] The Weekly Journal or Saturday Post, 18 May 1717, reported that at his death Hibbert was ‘estimated to be worth £100,000’. Clearly a notable tradesman receiving Royal patronage, several of his commissions are documented. In 1668–69 he hired goods to the Lord Chamberlain's Office and is presumably the Mr Hibbert, u of London named in the accounts of C. Blunt, u, for work done in the Royal Household in 1686–87, being paid £17 15s 7d; and in 1687–88, £32 3s 7d. In 1697 Hibbert requested payment by the Lord Chamberlain ‘for a Wainscott bedstead Angell fashion with black japaned posts & a set of Rods & Ironwork to the ceiling’. [Lord Chamberlain's Office, PRO, LC9/279; C114/164, pt 1; V&A archives] Between 1685–87 John Hibbert supplied the 5th Earl of Bedford with upholstery, cane chairs, walnut chairs, dressing-tables etc. for Bedford House, including ‘a suite of fine landscape tapestry lined with canvas’. Further items were supplied between 1690–91, among them ‘a fine horse bone black japanned chair frame for a chair of state and a foot stool upholstered in rich green velvet with a fine green silk fringe’, for £12 5s 6d. The total bill amounted to £289 8s 4d and was presented to the 5th Earl by John Hibbert and Thomas Dixon, the receipt being signed by John Hibbert ‘for self and partner’ in March 1690–91. All previous and one subsequent bill dated September 1691 were in the name of John Hibbert alone. [Bedford Office, London] John Hibbert & Co. receipted a bill in the Annandale accounts, 1701, for ‘2 rich pieces of fine Japanese tapestry’ costing £69. [Hopetoun NRA(S) 888/637] In 1702 the Duke of Leeds paid ‘Mr. Hibbert £73.10.0.’. [Child's Bank (Williams & Glyn's). In 1711 Nicholas Carey, Esq. of London bought of John Hibbert fabric, window cornices, a walnut wood chair frame, wainscot frame to a bed, bedding etc., costing £216 7s 1d. [Berks, RO, BRO D/ELI 26]
Hibbert, John, Hull, Yorks., cm (1784). [Poll bk] Probably John Hibbeart.
Hick, —, Briggate, Leeds, Yorks., carver, gilder, picture frame maker and looking-glass manufacturer (1815). Advertised in Leeds Intelligencer, 30 January 1715. Possibly Joseph Hick.
Hick, Ben., 24 Broad St, Bloomsbury, London, bedstead maker and turner (1817). [D]
Hick, George, 62 Mill St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1826). [D]
Hick(s), John, Blackfriargate, Hull, Yorks., cm, furniture broker and joiner (1803–63). Trading at no. 30, 1803–34, and no. 31, 1838–63. Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. [D]
Hick(s), Joseph, Hull, Yorks, cm and chairmaker (1804–31). Addresses given at 10 Wells St, 1817–23, and 21 Osborne St, 1826–31. App. to George Spenceley of Hull in January 1804. Took apps named Richard Carrall and Stephen Newton of Hull in January and July 1817; William Dunning of York in November 1818; and Thomas Whiting in June 1819. [D; Hull app. reg.]
Hick, Joseph, Leeds, Yorks., carver and gilder, varnish maker, furniture japanner, sign and ornamental painter (1817–37). Recorded at 56 Mill Hill in 1817; 9 West Bar, 1828–34 and 12 Westbar in 1837. Trade card gives Mill Hill address and reads: ‘Imitations of Wood & Marble. Old Bed & Window Cornices, Wash Stands, Dressing Tables, Chairs &c repainted to any Colour & Varnished to look equal to new. Sofas, Chaise &c Stained in Imitation of Rosewood. India Cabinets repaired & imitated. Bronzing &c. Ladies Work Boxes & Screens neatly Varnished & Polished.’ [D; Landauer Coll., MMA, NY] Possibly Hick, —.
Hickes, James, New St, Worcester, cm and u (1828). [D]
Hickey, —, 57 Foregate St, Worcester, carver and gilder (1797– 98). [D]
Hickin, James, Dudley St, Birmingham, cm (1818). [D]
Hickin, James, High St, Leominster, Herefs., cm (1835). [D]
Hickin, William, Birmingham, cm, u and chairmaker (1796–1830). Recorded at 112 Dale End in 1828 and 16 Ct, Dale End in 1830. Named in the Shrewsbury burgess roll, 1796. [D]
Hicklenton, William, parish of St Martin at Palace, Norwich, cm (1818–30). App. to William Freeman, and admitted freeman on 3 May 1818. [Norwich freemen reg. and poll bk]
Hicklin, William, 33 Newhall St, Birmingham, cm and u (1835). [D]
Hickman, —, Houndsditch, London, cm (d.1741). Notice in Daily Post, Tuesday 28 July 1741 read: ‘On Sunday died Mr. Hickman, a wealthy Cabinet-maker in Houndsditch.’
Hickman, Richard, Temple St, Bilston, Staffs., cm (1818–22). Listed also at Newtown in 1818. [D]
Hicks, Frederick, Mount Pleasant Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hicks, J., Lower Pembroke St, London. Mahogany easel toilet mirror recorded with rectangular plate and pierced swanneck pediment, the frame stamped ‘J. Hicks, Pembroke Street’. The stamp of ‘J. Hicks, 5 Lr. Pembroke St.’ also found on pair of marquetry corner cupboards, the tops with radiating panels of sycamore inlaid with satinwood anthemions and rosettes, with ribbon borders in green stained wood; the front with similar motifs and shelves enclosed by doors inlaid with satinwood medallions and urns on a hardwood ground. [Sotheby's, 10 February 1967, lot 90; 19 June 1959, lot 50]
Hicks, James, address unrecorded. Giltwood Neo-classical table recorded as by James Hicks, with top inlaid by Pietro Bossi. [C. Life, 11 November 1976, pp. 1358–59]
Hicks, James, 26 Wigmore St, Cavendish Sq., London, manufacturer of portable writing desks, dressing cases, work boxes, tea chests etc. (1809–37). Domed top rosewood work and banded with amaranth, enclosing fitted interior with two mahogany and satinwood caddies and glass mixing bowl. [D; Heal; Christie's, 11 November 1982, lot 18]
Hicks, James, 2 Chapel St, Lamb's Conduit St and Bedford Row, London, cm and u (1835–39). [D]
Hicks, John, St George's parish, Stamford, Lincs., u (1830–32). [Poll bks]
Hicks, John jnr, Sandwich, Kent, cm (1832–39). Shared business with Donne at Margaret St in 1839. [D; poll bks]
Hicks, Joseph, Briggate, Leeds, Yorks. carver and gilder (1816). [D]
Hicks, Leonard, Norwich, cm and u (1818–30). Recorded in St Stephen's, 1822, and St Michael at Thorn, 1830. App. to John Norris, and admitted freeman on 24 February 1818. [D; poll bk and freemen reg.]
Hicks, Peter, Bristol, cm (1781). [Poll bk]
Hicks, Thomas, Bell Lane, Gloucester, cm, carver, gilder, house &c. painter (1822–23). [D]
Hicks, William, at ‘The Peacock’, Houndsditch, Aldgate, London, u (1714). Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 26 June 1714. [GL, Sun MS vol. 4, ref. 4072]
Hickson, Henry, 27 Hart St, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Hickson, Mathew jnr, Lincoln, cm (1806). [Lincoln freemen rolls]
Hide — See also Hyde.
Hide, Benjamin (or Beal), Bloomsbury, London, bedstead and cabinet manufactory, turner (1816–37). Trading at 24 Broad St in 1816, and 22 High St, 1820–27. Declared bankrupt, Brighton Gazette, 18 November 1824. [D]
Hide (or Hyde), Daniel, Dorking, Surrey, upholder (1792–93). Insured utensils and stock in his house and shop for £300 on 10 June 1792. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 388, p. 55]
Hide, Edward, 13 High St, Worthing, Sussex, cm, u, builder and undertaker (1823–32). [D] See Hide & Patching.
Hide, John, Beverley, Yorks., cm (1807). App. to John Stephenson of Beverley in June 1807. [Hull app. reg.]
Hide, Ralph, Stockwell St, Leek, Staffs., joiner and cm (1818). [D]
Hide & Patching, High St, Worthing, Sussex, cm and undertakers (1839). [D] See Edward Hide.
Hidrid, Thomas, Tattershall, Lincs., chair turner (1822). [D]
Hiers, Joshua, Fairles St, South Shields, Co. Durham, cm (1827–29). [D]
Hiett, William, Mount St, Taunton, Som., cm and u (1839). [D]
Hiffer, Edmund, 57 Charlotte St, Somerstown, London, picture frame maker (1835). [D]
Higby, David, St Andrew's, Holborn, London, upholder (1718–35). Insured goods and merchandise at ‘The Sun’, Fleet Ditch, on 11 July 1718 with the Sun Co. Named on lease for a messuage in Stadhampton, Bucks. dated 1735. [GL, Sun MS vol. 8, ref. 11478; Oxford RO, Fa V/10]
Higgens, James, Sherborne, Dorset, u (1738). App. to Thomas Thorne, u of Sherborne, in 1738. [Dorset app. indentures]
Higgin, Samuel, Liverpool, cabinet trunk maker (1796–1803). Addresses given at Lord St, 1796, no. 7 in 1800, and Whitechapel in 1803. [D]
Higginbottom, James, Market St, Lane End, Staffs., cm (1834). [D]
Higginbottom, John, Market St, Lane End, Staffs., cm and u (1835). [D]
Higgins, Charles, Wood St, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics., turner (1829). [D]
Higgins, George, Holmfirth, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Higgins, Henry, Norwich, cm (1825). Former app., James Manthorpe, cm, admitted freeman on 3 May 1825. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Higgins, John, Chandos St, near Old Round Ct, St Paul's, Covent Gdn, London, turner (1709). Insured his goods on 25 March 1709. [GL, Sun MS vol. 3, ref. 2935] Possibly John Higgons.
Higgins, John, St Mary Magdalene, Oxford, cm (1768). [Poll bk]
Higgins, John, London, u (1809–23). Addresses given at 25 Cork St, Burlington Gdns, 1809–11; 30 Brewer St, Golden Sq., 1811; 16 Saffron St, Holborn, 1817; and 3 Saffron Row, Saffron Lane, 1822–23. [D]
Higgins, Maria, St Andrew's Broad St, Norwich, working u (1836). [D]
Higgins, Michael, 34 New Rd, St George's East, London, carver and gilder (1808–11). [D]
Higgins, Samuel, Bridgwater, Som., cm (1780). [Poll bk]
Higgins, Samuel, Shorts Gdn(s), Drury Lane, London, picture frame maker (1810). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 5 February 1810 for £100 of which £75 accounted for stock, utensils and goods in trust. [GL, Sun MS vol. 453, ref. 841223]
Higgins, Samuel Cook, Gloucester, u (1826–28). Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 1 December 1826. Bankruptcy superseded, same paper, 5 August 1828.
Higgins, Thomas, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1834–37). Trading at 71 Bold St, 1834, and 1 Newsham St, 1835–37. [D]
Higginson, Francis, Eastbourne, Sussex, cm (1762). Took app. named Williams in 1762. [S of G, app. index]
Higginson, Francis, Midhurst, Sussex, upholder, auctioneer, cm and u (1784–94). [D] See Francis Higinson.
Higginson, Henry, Liverpool, cm (1809–34). Addresses given at 23 Batchelor St in 1811; no. 26, 1813–14; 11 Dance St, 1816; 34 High St, Edge Hill in 1823; 10 Norman St in 1827; 8 Mansfield Ct in 1829; 10 Rose St with shop in Mill Lane, 1834–35; no. 24 Mill Lane, Shaw's Brow in 1835; and 9 Rose St with shop at 33 Mill Lane in 1839. Probably the H. Higginson, cm of Liverpool, whose marriage to Miss Mary Burgess on 17 August at Trinity Church was reported in Liverpool Courier, 13 September 1809. [D]
Higginson, Nathaniel, Middlewich, Cheshire, cm (1762). Took app. named Whitlow in 1762. [S of G, app. index]
Higgons, —, near Gray's Inn, London, cm (1699). Named in newspapers in 1699. [Heal]
Higgons, John, St Paul's, Covent Gdn, London, turner (1742). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., May 1742. Possibly John Higgins.
Higgs, —, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Higgs, — jnr, Market Pl., Reading, Berks., cm (1791). Insured utensils and stock for £1,000 on 24 June 1791. [GL, Sun MS vol. 377, p. 609] See Benson Higgs, Holland Thomas Higgs, and Thomas Higgs; also Higgs & Ford.
Higgs, Benjamin, Castle Alley, between Long Acre and Castle St, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1712). Insured his house for £50 on 18 August 1712. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 10, ref. 8756]
Higgs, Benson, Reading, Berks., upholder (1780–82). [Poll bks]
Higgs, Edward, Baker's Row, Whitechapel, London, bedstead maker (1820). [D]
Higgs, Holland Thomas, Reading, Berks., upholder and cm (1745–83). Married Mary Harvard of Nuffield on 29 July 1745, and as a widower, Anne Benwell on 17 April 1763. Took app. named Line in 1750 and Higgs in 1761. Insured his house for £2,000 in 1776 with the Sun Co. Named in 1793 as 3rd party in a lease of property in Goring. [Poll bks; Bodleian index of Oxf. marriage bonds; S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 248, p. 450; Oxford RO, FIX/138–39] See Higgs jnr, —, Thomas Higgs, Higgs & Ford, and Thomas Holland.
Higgs, Holland Thomas, Market Pl., Reading, Berks., u (1820). [Poll bk] See T. Holland Higgs.
Higgs, Joseph, St Margaret, Westminster, London, joiner (1792). Patented a ‘new invented bedstead’ on 11 February 1792. [Patent Office]
Higgs, Samuel, Westminster, London, cm (1802). [Oxford poll bk]
Higgs, T. Holland, Market Pl., Reading, Berks., cm (1823). [D] See Holland Thomas Higgs and Thomas Holland.
Higgs, Thomas, Reading, Berks., u (1754). Took app. named Knight in 1754. [S of G, app. index]
Higgs, Thomas, 5 Upper Marylebone St, London, cm (1794). Insured his house, workshop and utensils for £400 on 14 June 1794. [GL, Sun MS vol. 401, ref. 628570]
Higgs, Thomas, 248 Whitechapel Rd, London, cm, u and broker in household goods (1802–39). Recorded at no. 245 in 1802. Trade label shows draped four-post bedstead, Hepplewhitestyle writing desk, Regency chairs, chest of drawers and pier table; window blind and drapes. Card reads: ‘Cabinet, Bedstead, Venetian Blind & Chair Manufactory, Upholsterer, Appraiser & Auctioneer, No. 246 Roadside Whitechapel, London. Funerals Performed.’ [Heal] Took out Sun Insurance policies on 29 September 1802; on 29 October 1807 for £1,000; and on 4 November 1818 for £1,600 on household goods in his new house and adjoining shops, on four houses at 12–15 Thomas St, Whitechapel, and two houses in Bethnal Green. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 424, ref. 738027; vol. 441, ref. 809473; vol. 480, ref. 946764]
Higgs, Thomas, 5 Upper Marylebone St, London, bedstead and cm (1808). [D]
Higgs, Thomas, Gloucester, cm (1813). Child bapt., at St John Baptist in 1813. [PR (bapt.)]
Higgs, William, Aylesbury Rd, Tring, Herts., cm and u (1839). [D]
Higgs & Ford, Reading, Berks., cm and u (1798–1813). Trading as Higgs, Son & Ford in 1798; as Higgs & Co. and Higgs & Ford, 1809–13; and in Market Pl., 1809. Carried out work for 2nd Lord Braybrooke at Audley End, Essex, Billingbear, Berks., or his London house, receiving payment of £3 10s in December 1802. Specifically for work at Billingbear, the firm was paid £65 1s 5d in December 1809; £41 8s 6d in December 1810; £47 6s 6d in December 1811; £59 0s 9d in December 1812; and £7 18s in December 1813. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A357; A376] The Gents Mag., June 1809 reported the death, aged 74, of an employee of Higgs & Ford, William Line, journeyman cm of Reading, employed for sixty years in the firm, during which time he never lost a day's work, had a holiday, or ‘been once disguised in liquor’. [D]
High, William, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1818– 36. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Higham, Thomas, Marton, near Hull, Yorks., estate joiner (1748–d. 1793). Received payment of £2 9s 4d for ‘8 Calves skins for Chairs’ supplied in 1748. Will proved in 1793. Highams, estate joiners, made furniture for Burton Constable, Yorks., during the mid 18th century. [C. Life, 3 June 1976, p. 1476]
Highfield, George, Liverpool, cm (1784). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Edward Lowe, and admitted freeman on 1 April 1784. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Highfield, John, Liverpool, cm (1761–d.1811). Addresses given at Atherton St, 1766–67; 87 Park Lane, 1787; 64 Shaw's Brow, 1794; no. 56 in 1796; 12 Church St in 1790; 60 Shaw's Brow in 1800; no. 48 in 1803; no. 51 in 1810; and no. 54 in 1811. Petitioned freedom on servitude part of time to George Pachon and John Suddorth, and admitted freeman on 28 January 1761. Death of wife reported in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 27 January 1800; own death on 9 November 1811, in Liverpool Mercury, 22 November. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Highman, George, High St, Shaftesbury, Dorset, cm (1823–30). [D]
Highton, William, Ormskirk, Lancs., cm (1822–34). Trading at Moor St in 1834. [D]
Higinson, Francis, Midhurst, Sussex, u, carpenter and joiner (1776). Insured utensils, stock, goods and workshop for £700 in 1776. [GL, Sun MS vol. 246, p. 131] See Francis Higginson.
Hignet, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1797–1806). App. to Samuel Chubbard in 1797, and admitted freeman on 31 October 1806. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Higson, William, Liverpool, cm (1761). Admitted freeman on 2 April 1761. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hildebrand, —, temporarily in London, ‘Proprietor and Maker of the most Magnificent Cabinet in the World’. A notice, c. 1780, advertised the spectacle of his extraordinary cabinet at ‘Mr. Jerom Johnson's, Cut-Glass Warehouse, opposite the “Black-Bear, Piccadilly”’, one shilling admittance. The cabinet, ‘properly adapted for the Dressing-Room of a Princess’, was inlaid with ‘many hundred thousand Pieces of Wood of various Colours’ representing ‘Landscapes, Huntings, Ruins of “Roman” Temples, intermix'd with the Figures of various Animals … The Outside represents a Bureau of an half oval Form of Walnut-tree, adorned with gilt Borders and other Ornaments, inlaid with different Sorts of Metal, Mother of Pearl, Ivory, and Wood of various Colours, in a Manner which surpasses the Imagination, representing whole Hunting-matches, Men, Animals, Flowers, Perspectives, Prospects, &c. so like and lively as Nature itself …’. The cabinet contained a total of one hundred and six drawers of different sizes, some of which ‘come out as if it were by playing on a Harpsichord’; and many doors which opened onto various secret moving compartments achieving novel effects, such as the disappearance and re-appearance of objects placed within. The cabinet, claimed Mr Hildebrand, was acknowledged to be ‘the most exquisite Piece of Art ever Seen’ by ‘The Greatest Connoisseurs who have travelled throughout Europe …’. [GL, trade card coll.]
Hildebrant, Charles, 10 Gilbert Buildings, Westminster Rd, London, carver and gilder (1826). [D]
Hildebrant, William, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hilder, Edward, 1–2 High St, Rye, Sussex, u (1839). [D]
Hilder, James, 20 Old Compton St, Soho, London, carver and gilder (1840). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1840. [GL, Sun MS ref. 1341311]
Hildersley, Francis, Soho, London, chairmaker (1808–27). Trading at 48 Wardour St in 1808 and 18 Hollen St, 1826– 27. [D]
Hildersley, William & Martha, Soho, London, carvers and gilders (1829–39). Trading at 18 Hollen St in 1829 and 49 Upper John St, Fitzroy Sq., 1829–35. Martha is recorded alone in 1837, and William alone in 1839. [D]
Hilditch, Eliza, 50 Downing St, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, u (1840). [D]
Hildor, William, Gt Tower St, London, turner (1717). Insured his house for £250 on 15 January 1717. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 18, p. 128]
Hilker, Anthony, Husband St, Gravel Pits, near St Ann's, London, cm, carver and gilder (1747–75). Simple, unembellished trade card reads: ‘Cabinet Work, CarV&Apos;d & Gilt Frames, Ornaments, Prints Framed & Glaz'd, Maps fitted up in a new Taste, Packing carefully done and Cases made — All kinds of Goods Appraised, Funerals performed in the decentest manner, at Reasonable Rates.’ [BM] Took app. named Richard Bastallas in 1748 for £10. [V&A archives] Polled at Westminster in 1749. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. Probably the Anthony Hilker, picture frame maker, late of Child St, Strand, whose discharge from Debtors’ Prison was announced in London Gazette, 12 September 1761. Anthony Hilker submitted a bill to Sir Richard Hoare on 30 October 1747 ‘for pear tree frames carved & gilt’, costing £1 18s 1d supplied for Barn Elms House. He is presumably the Mr Hilker, frame maker, who charged Sir Richard £35 18s between 25 August 1747 and 22 June 1753, including payment for framing maps and a plan of London. [V&A Lib., English Manuscripts, tradesmen's bills; Sir Richard Hoare's private account, Hoare's Bank, Fleet St] On 7 July 1775 Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Lord Harrowby of Sandon Hall, Staffs., paid ‘Hilker Cabinet maker’, £1 4s. [Harrowby MS Trust, Notebooks] Possibly Anthony Hilkes.
Hilker, Stephen, next to Clements Inn, Clement Lane, London, picture frame maker and gilder (1775). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1775 for £400 of which £200 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 237, p. 130]
Hilkss, Anthony, London, cm (1760). [Canterbury freemen rolls] Possibly Anthony Hilker.
Hill, —, Long Lane, near West Smithfield, London, clock-case maker (d.1743). [Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23]
Hill, —, address unrecorded, cm (1756). On 19 November 1756 Hill charged £3 3s to Henry Hoare of Stourhead, ‘to my Tools in full’. [Wilts. RO, MS 383/6]
Hill, —, London (?), u (1760–74). Payments recorded in Paul Methuen's day book, 1760–74, for upholstery work done at Corhsam Court, Wilts. Between 20 June 1760 and 17 December 1774, Hill received a total of £1,057 14s 6d. [Wilts. RO]
Hill, —, Marlborough, Wilts., u and coachmaker (1768). Mentioned in the diaries of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glam. in 1768. [C. Life, 5 October 1978, p. 1024] Possibly Henry Hill.
Hill, —, Piccadilly, near St James's Church, London, u (1798). Fire on Thurs. 5 April reported in Gents Mag., April 1798. Possibly Peter Hill, or Hill & Woolley.
Hill, Ambrose, 13 Dansie St and Minshull St, Edge Hill, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1830). Admitted freeman on 13 November 1830. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hill, Arthur, New Windsor, Berks., cm (1794–1804). [Poll bks]
Hill, Benjamin, Churchgate, Retford, Notts., cm and u (1822). [D]
Hill, Benjamin, Rotherham, Yorks., cm (1834). [D]
Hill, Charles, Litton, near Kettlewell, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hill, Charles, Hockley, Nottingham, u and paper hanger (1834–40). [D]
Hill, David, Wickham Mkt, Suffolk, cm (1830–39). [D]
Hill, Edward, Brighton, Sussex, upholder and cm (1793–1824). Addresses given at 8 Middle St in 1799; West Cliff in 1817; and 2 Grand Parade, 1824. Daughter Elizabeth, by Sarah Hill, bapt. at St Nicholas's Church on 26 February 1817. [D; PR (bapt.)]
Hill, Edward, Thurlow St, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1827– 34). Recorded at no. 20, 1827–29. Sudden death of his wife, Margaret, aged 32, on 8 August, and of his son, Edward, aged 4, on 13 August, reported in Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales, 19 August 1834. [D]
Hill, George, Mayfair, London, carver (1749). [Poll bk]
Hill, Harry, Penkhull (or Penkhill) St, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., joiner, u and cm (1798–1828). [D] See Thomas Hill.
Hill, Henry, Marlborough, Wilts., cm (1741–77). Took app. named Joseph Lideard, son of Elizabeth, on 12 January 1741/42, by common indenture and counterpart, for £12; Thomas Smith on 10 March 1752 by indenture, for £30; and William Neat on 1 January 1753 by indenture, for £35. Took out a Sun Insurance policy for £3,000 in 1777, of which £1,125 accounted for utensils, stock and goods; £100 for his office; and £100 for timber. [Wilts. Apps and their Masters; GL, Sun MS vol. 262, p. 45]
Hill, Henry, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b.c. 1791–1841). Sons bapt. in 1814, 1817, 1824, 1829, 1833 and 1836. Daughter Mary born in 1819, and daughters bapt. in 1822 and 1827. Acted as witness at marriage of his daughter in 1839. Aged 50 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Hill, Henry, 14 Portland St, Manchester, cm (1834–40). Recorded at no. 51 in 1840. [D]
Hill, Henry William, London, cm (1835–39). Trading at 47 Pennyfields, Poplar in 1835; and 22 Mary Pl, High St and 27 Pennyfields, Poplar in 1839. [D]
Hill, I., Fieldterrace, Bagniggewells, London, u (1820). [D]
Hill, Isaac, Ipswich, Suffolk, cm (1816–39). Recorded in St Mary Keys parish in 1816; St Margaret's, 1832–35; and Cox Lane, 1839. Named in the calendar of marriage licence bonds on 1 April 1816. [Poll bks; Suffolk RO, FAA: 50/2/118, pp. 119–20]
Hill, J., London, u (1793–1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793, and Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hill, J., Chester, u (1829). Listed amongst tradesmen subscribing to a gold cup of 100 gs value, for the Chester Races of 1829, he having contributed 10s. [Chester Chronicle and North Wales Advertiser, 1 May 1829] Possibly John Hill of Chester
Hill, Jacob, 16 Holborn London, bed and mattress maker (1822–28). [D]
Hill, James, Bromley, Staffs., chairmaker and turner (1793). [D]
Hill, James, Merchant St, Bristol, cm (1801). [D]
Hill, James, Hull, Yorks., cm (1813–39). Recorded at 2 Trafalgar Sq., Lower Union St, 1838–39. App. to George Chapman of Hull in July 1813, and assigned to Robert Waugh in March 1818. [D; Hull app. reg.]
Hill, James, 15 Brunswick Pl., Liverpool, carver (1821). [D]
Hill, James, 16 East St, Manchester Sq., London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Hill, James, Longtown, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1828–29). [D]
Hill, James, 3 Court, Old Inkleys, Birmingham, cm, u and bedstead maker (1830). [D]
Hill, James, Abbots Bromley, Staffs., chairmaker (1834). [D]
Hill, John, Fleet Bridge, St Bride's, London, upholder (1734–39). Fined for non-service, and served as Questman and Collector for the Poor at St Bride's in 1734. Served as a Sidesman in 1739. [GL, MS 6561, p. 58]
Hill, John, Windsor, Berks., chairmaker and cm (1740). Admitted freeman of the Borough of Windsor on 30 April 1740. [Second hall book of the borough of New Windsor]
Hill, John, Worcester, chairmaker (1747–61). Polled in 1747 of St Helen's parish. Former app., Thomas Hill, admitted freeman on 19 March 1761. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hill, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1766–73). Son of Nathaniel Hill, brazier of Barbican, London. App. to William Gould on 11 July 1766, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 6 October 1773. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hill, John, Little Wild St, London (?), u (1775). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., October 1775.
Hill, John, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798–1821). Named in the Militia Census, 1798. Daughter Sarah bapt. in 1819, another in 1821. [PR (bapt.)]
Hill, John, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1804–13). Trading at 5 Shaw's Brow in 1804; no. 7 in 1805; no. 8, 1807–11; and 15 Brunswick Pl. in 1813. [D]
Hill, John, Liverpool, cm (1827–39). Trading at 23 Pinnington St in 1827 and 8 Cypress St, 1839. [D]
Hill, John, 3 Crescent Pl., St George's Fields, London, painter and gilder (1808). [D]
Hill, John, Sheffield, Yorks., carver and gilder (1814–22). Addresses given at York St, 1814, George St, 1817, 30 High St, 1821, and no. 31 in 1822. [D]
Hill, John, Castle St, Chester, u (1824–37). Admitted freeman on 20 October 1824. [D; poll bk; Chester freemen rolls] See J. Hill of Chester.
Hill, John, Malton, Yorks., cm (1828–40). Recorded at Greengate, 1828–29. [D]
Hill, John, Bromsgrove St, Birmingham, cm, u and broker (1828–30). Recorded at 4 Court in 1828. [D]
Hill, John, Budby, Edwinstowe, Notts., joiner and cm (1832). [D]
Hill, John, York, cm (1833). Son of William Hill, waggoner; app. to William Groves, cm, on 11 April 1833. [York app. reg.]
Hill, John, Whiting St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, cm (1836). [Poll bk]
Hill, Jonas, Little Horton, near Bradford, Yorks., cm (1814–22). [D]
Hill, Jonas, Chapel Lane, Bradford, Yorks., joiner and cm (1818). [D]
Hill, Jonathan, Philadelphia St, Bristol, timber dealer and cm (1831–40). Trading also as a tea dealer at 34 Castle St, 1831– 35, and 10 Milk St, 1835–40. [D]
Hill, Joseph, George St, Sheffield, Yorks., cm (1818). [D]
Hill, Josiah (or Joshua) William, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., u and cm (1823–39). Recorded at Iron Mkt, 1828–39, no. 72 in 1839 also as a victualer. [D; poll bks]
Hill, Josias, York, u (1779). A Blue Coat boy, app. to James Marshall, u and cm, on 9 October 1779. [York app. reg.]
Hill, Josias William (or I.W.), London, cm, u and undertaker (1808–39). Addresses given at 11 Leather Lane, Holborn, 1808–19, and 101–02 Hatton Gdn, 1820–39. [D]
Hill, Mary, Portland (?) St, Leeds, Yorks., working u (1834). [D]
Hill, Peter, 190 Piccadilly, London, u (1799–1801). [D] See Hill & Woolley and Hill, — of Piccadilly.
Hill, Richard, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1781–1841). Named in the Militia Census, 1798. Daughters bapt. in 1815; 1817; Silena in 1820, another in 1824; son Remus in 1822, another in 1828. Aged 60 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Hill, Richard, High St, Lewes, Sussex, u (1816–39). Recorded at no. 77, 1823–24, and no. 2 in 1839. [D; poll bks]
Hill, Richard, 55 Oakley St, London, bed and mattress maker (1835). [D]
Hill, S., Middlx, upholder (1826). Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 30 June 1826.
Hill, Samuel, Doncaster, Yorks., cm (1733). Took app. named Briley in 1733. [S of G, app. index]
Hill, Samuel, 36 Gt Russell St, Bloomsbury, London, u etc. (1826–27). [D]
Hill, Samuel, 24 Hockley Hill, Birmingham, cm (1835). [D]
Hill, Thomas, address unrecorded, u (1715). Provided the Prince of Wales with a bed, now at Hampton Court. [Conn., June 1977, p. 141]
Hill, Thomas snr, King's Lynn, Norfolk, cm (1730–58). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 18 January 1730 for £400, household goods, stock, utensils and workshop accounting for £230. Former app., Thomas Hill jnr, admitted freeman, 1735–36, and James Lyther, 1757–58. Took app. named Glasscock in 1743. [GL, Sun MS vol. 32, ref. 53057; King's Lynn freemen's calendar; S of G, app. index]
Hill, Thomas jnr, King's Lynn, Norfolk, joiner and cm (1835– 36). App. to Thomas Hill snr, and admitted freeman, 1735– 36. [King's Lynn freemen's calendar]
Hill, Thomas, Worcester, chairmaker (1761). App. to John Hill, chairmaker, and admitted freeman on 19 March 1761. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hill, Thomas, St Clement Danes, London, cm (c. 1780). His son, Isaac, entered St Paul's School in 1785, and for 36 years he was headmaster of The Mercers’ School, 1804–40. [Heal]
Hill, Thomas, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hill, Thomas, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1814–32). Addresses given in Ship St, 1814; West St, 1816–18; and 11 Grenville Pl., 1832. Daughter, Sarah Ann by Dianah Hill, bapt. at St Nicholas's Church on 11 March 1814; son Benjamin on 19 May 1816; and daughter Rebecca on 12 April 1818. [D; PR (bapt.)]
Hill, Thomas, parish of SS Peter and Paul, Tunbridge, Kent, chairmaker (1816–20). Daughter Hannah, by wife Hannah, bapt. on 10 November 1815, and son Thomas on 17 December 1820. [PR (bapt.)]
Hill, Thomas, Church gate, Loughborough, Leics., joiner/cm (1822). [D]
Hill, Thomas, Skate Lane, Whitby, Yorks., cm (1823). [D]
Hill, Thomas, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., cm and builder (1823–37). Trading in Penkhull St, 1832–39, no. 81, 1836– 39. [D; poll bks] See Harry Hill.
Hill, Thomas, St Julian's Friars, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1830). [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Hill, Thomas, 1 and 14 North St Mews, Fitzroy Sq., London, bedstead maker and japanner (1839). [D]
Hill, Walter, Church St, Kidderminster, Worcs., cm and u (1828–35). [D]
Hill, Warwick, 142 Kingsland Rd, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hill, William, at ‘The Sign of the Star’, Little St Martin's Lane, London, turner (c.1730). Trade card continues: ‘Where all Sorts of Turners Work for Cabinet Makers and Joyners is done in general’. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gardener Box 63, No. 40D]
Hill, William, Stratford, London, upholder (1749–72). Son of Samuel Hill, freeman merchant tailor; app. to Samuel Hibberdine on 7 December 1749. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 March 1758. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hill, William, parish of St Giles, London, bed joiner (1771). Took app. named Benjamin Baker in 1771. [Westminster Ref. Lib., St Martin-in-the-Fields PR]
Hill, William, Lancaster, joiner and cm (b. c. 1772–d.1848). Son of William, late of Lancaster, twinespinner; admitted freeman, 1806–07. Named in the Gillow records, 1825–27. Between 24 December 1829 and 17 August 1839 took four apps. Died on 31 December 1848, aged 60, and buried in Lancaster Priory Churchyard. [Lancaster freemen rolls and app. reg.; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Hill, William C., Bristol, carver and gilder (1809–40). Trading at John St, 1809–17; Marlborough Hill, 1813–16; and 12 Clare St, 1819–40; also as a tea dealer, 1819–27; and picture dealer from 1828. [D]
Hill, William, address unrecorded, u (1812). Received payment on 15 March 1812 for items supplied to Edward Turner, steward at Welbeck Abbey, 1811–13. [Notts. RO, Welbeck Abbey accounts]
Hill, William, Bridge St, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., cm, joiner and u (1828–39). Listed at no. 31, 1836–39. [D]
Hill, William, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1835). [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Hill, William, 4 Ironmonger's Row, St Luke's, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hill, William, 120 London Rd, Brighton, Sussex, cm, u and furniture broker (1839). [D]
Hill & Hewitt, Shrewsbury, Salop, upholders and auctioneers (1784). [D]
Hill & Perkins, 2 Common Land (or Hard) or 2 Commercial Hard, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants., cm, u, auctioneer and chairmaker (1823–39). [D]
Hill & Woolley, 109 Piccadilly, London, u (1797). [D] See Peter Hill.
Hillary, Thomas, Newington Causeway, Newington Butts, London, cm, broker and auctioneer (1803–28). Recorded at no. 62 in 1803; no. 5, 1809–25; and no. 4, 1827–28. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 26 April 1803 for £800 of which £550 accounted for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 246, ref. 747308]
Hiller, Edward, address unrecorded, upholder (1710–29). Son of Robert Hiller, freeman upholder of London; app. to his father on 2 August 1710, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 1 March 1720/21. Took app. named John Blackwell, 1727–29. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hiller (or Hillier), Frederick John, 183 Snargate St, Dover, Kent, cm, u, gilder, agent and broker (1823–39). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 8 June 1827. [D]
Hiller, Robert, address unrecorded, upholder (1710–21). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 2 August 1710. Took his son, Edward Hiller, as app., 1710–20/21. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Possibly:
Hiller, Robert, St Olave's, Southwark, London, freeman upholder (1716–20). Recorded in St Olave's St, 1716–17, when he insured his house on 2 January with the Sun Co. Took out Hand in Hand policies on 19 May 1720 for £50 on a house in Walnuttree Alley, and for £100 on a house in St Olave's St. [GL, Sun MS vol. 6, ref. 7721; GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 22, p. 42]
Hilliam, John, High St, Stamford, Lincs., cm and u (1828–41). [D; poll bks]
Hilliard, Edward, London, turner (1712–18). Recorded in Bishopsgate St, at ‘The Sign of the Cross Keys’, St Peter Cornhill, in 1712, when he insured his house for £250 on 20 September. On 29 March 1718, insured his house on the east side of the Old Change, Old Fish St, St Mary Magdalene, for £125; also four other houses. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 10, ref. 23755; vol. 18, p. 243]
Hillier, Ann, Bristol, upholsteress (1830–40). Trading at 9 Lower Wells St in 1830; 9 Wells St, 1832–35; and 19 Thomas St, 1837–40. [D]
Hillier, Charles, 13 Ogle St, St Marylebone, London, cm (1802). [Oxford poll bk]
Hillier, J., Leicester Sq., London, carver and gilder (1809). Declared bankrupt, Ackermann's Repository of Arts, July 1809.
Hillier, John, 64 High St, Bloomsbury, London, carver and gilder (1815–27). [D]
Hillier, Joseph, London, carver and gilder (1806–11). Trading at 33 Rathbone Pl., 1806 and 1809–11; at 24 Castle St, Oxford Mkt in 1808; and in partnership with James Hillier in 1809. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 6 September 1806 for £1,000, of which £500 accounted for his house and workshop behind, and £200 on stock, utensils and goods in trust. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 437, ref. 792903]
Hillier, Mary, wife of Robert, St Tooly's, Southwark, London, upholder (1712). Took app. on 5 December 1712. [PRO, app reg.]
Hilliker, Samuel, Marlborough, Wilts., cm and upholder (1781). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1781 for £700, of which utensils, stock and goods accounted for £495. [GL, Sun MS vol. 295, p. 629]
Hillingham, John, Stamford, Lincs., cm and u (1840). [D]
Hillman, Edmund, 27 Sloane Sq., London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hillman, Edwin, 55 Parliament St, Westminster, London, carver and gilder (1835–37). [D]
Hills, Henry, Bath, Som., u (d. by 1778). Supplied furniture to Penrice Castle, Glam., including wheel-back chairs at 35s each. [C. Life, 25 September 1975, pp. 754–56, illus.]
Hills, Joseph, Bridge St, Cambridge, cm, u and paper hanger (1839). [D] See Robert Hills.
Hills, Newman, 8 Berkeley Ct, Berkeley St, Clerkenwell, London, cm (1823–29). Took out Sun Insurance on 20 October 1823 for £300, £200 accounting for stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 495, ref. 1008912]
Hills, Robert, Cambridge, paper hanger and cm (1813–50). Trading in St Clement's parish when named in the Corp. common day book in 1813; and between 1815–30 when five children were baptised. Recorded in Bridge St, 1831–50. Employed for twenty years in the firm of Elliot Smith until the closure of the cabinet side of this business in 1831, when Hills advertised as a paper hanger in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 14 October. [D; poll bk; Cambs. RO, PR (bapt.)] See Joseph Hills.
Hills, William, Cambridge, chairmaker (d.1710). [Will at Cambridge Univ. Lib., W1710]
Hills, William, Newcastle, u (1721). Son Matthew admitted freeman by patrimony on 9 October 1721. [Newcastle freemen reg.]
Hills, William, St James's, Westminster, London, cm (1830). [Canterbury poll bk]
Hillyard, James, address unrecorded, upholder (1710/11). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 7 March 1710/ 11. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hillyard, Maria, 14 High St, King's Lynn, Norfolk, carver and gilder (1830–39). [D]
Hillyard, S., High St, King's Lynn, Norfolk, carver, gilder and painter (1822). [D]
Hilps, George, Stallards Lane, Trowbridge, Wilts., cm (1839). [D]
Hilstrip, William, York, cm (1822). Son of Thomas Hilstrip, joiner; app. to John Lockey, cm, on 30 September 1822. [York app. reg.]
Hilton, George, Preston, Lancs., cm (1742). Named as son of Thomas Hilton of Preston, shoemaker, in the Preston Guild record of burgesses, 1742.
Hilton, Henry, London, cm (1790–1808). Trading in Seething Lane, 1790–93, and 14 Moor St, Soho, 1808. [D]
Hilton, Henry, Southampton St, Covent Gdn, London, u (1792). Declared bankrupt, Derby Mercury, 21 June 1792.
Hilton, James, 6 Pleasant St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Hilton, Richard, Cambridge, cm (1760). Took app. named Smith in 1760. [S of G, app. index]
Hilton, Richard, Leeds, Yorks., journeyman cm (1791). Named in the Leeds Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, amongst other journeymen in basic sympathy with its contents.
Hilton, Thomas, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, chairmaker (1775). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., May 1775.
Hilton, William, Edgbaston St, Birmingham, cm (1816–22). [D]
Hinchcliff, James, 150–51 Whitechapel Rd, Aldgate, London, cm (1813–39). [D]
Hinchcliffe, John, Birstall, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hinchcliffe, John, Thorne, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hinchcliffe, John, Hatfield, near Doncaster, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hind, John, Liverpool, cm (1780). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Lee (Leigh?) Sutton in 1780, paying 6s 8d. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk] Possibly John Hinds.
Hind, John jnr, Gainsborough, Lincs., cm and upholder (1792– 1828). Recorded in Lord St, 1819–28. Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D] See William Hind.
Hind, Richard, Bawtry, York, cm (1787). Insured his goods for £500 on 5 March 1787. [GL, Sun MS vol. 343, p. 214]
Hind, Thomas, Goldsmith Row, Hackney Rd, London, cm, u and undertaker (1827–28). [D]
Hind, W., Market Harborough, Leics., turner (1822). [D]
Hind, William, Hull, Yorks., cm and u (1826–31). Recorded at 2 New Dock St in 1826 and 5 Ann's Pl., Collier St, 1831. William Hind, beer retailer, traded in Collier St in 1834. [D]
Hind, William, Lord St, Gainsborough, Lincs., cm and u (1831–41). [D] See John Hind.
Hind, William, High St, Stamford, Lincs., cm and u (1835–41). [D]
Hinde, James, Lancaster, cm (1733–34). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hinde, Robert, Maryport, Cumb., cm and joiner (1834). [D]
Hinde, Thomas, 1 Hulme St, Manchester, chairmaker (1824). [D]
Hinde, Thomas, 14 Bond St, Manchester, u and paper hanger (1825). [D]
Hinde, Thomas, 1 Hulme St, Manchester, u (1825). [D]
Hinder, Robert, Crown Ct, Poultney St, Westminster, London, upholder (1719). Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 20 February 1719. [GL, Sun MS vol. 9, p. 109]
Hindersley, John & William, 18 Hollen St, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Hindes, James, address unrecorded, cm (1764). Named in the Earl of Egremont's accounts in 1764 receiving £12 3s 9d for work done at Petworth House, Sussex, including carpet work, wainscotting, and providing a mahogany Pembroke table. [V&A archives]
Hindes, William, Gt Charles St, Birmingham, cabinet case maker (1839). [D]
Hindes, William, 9 Parade, Birmingham, dressing case and writing desk manufacturer (1839). [D]
Hindle, Charles, 86 Gerrard St, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1835). [D]
Hindle, James, Darlington, Co. Durham, cm (1827–34). Trading at High Row in 1827 and Bondgate, 1834. Joseph Hindle was at Bondgate, 1828–34. [D] See John Hindle.
Hindle, John, 62 Shoreditch, London, upholder (1782–83). [D]
Hindle, John, Hardwick's Yd, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1817). [D]
Hindle, John, Bondgate, Darlington, Co. Durham, cm and joiner (1828–34). [D]
Hindle, Patrick, 10 Timble Bridge, Leeds, Yorks., cm and joiner (1834–53). [D]
Hindley, Mrs, 2 Water St, Salford, Lancs., cm (1808). [D] See John Hindley.
Hindley, C. & Son(s), 154 Oxford St, London, cm (c. 1820–30). Mark recorded on Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830. [Conn., November 1978; V&A archives] Mark also found on rosewood writing table, c.1820, with centre drawer and turned legs [Antiques, March 1982, p. 669]; also on a William IV mahogany writing table with two drawers in the frieze faced with walnut, and raised on fluted tapering legs. [Sotheby's, 24 July 1964, lot 93]
Hindley, John, Salford, Lancs., cm (1788–1804). Addresses given at 43 Chapel St, 1788; 3 Water St, 1800 and 1804; and no. 2 in 1802. [D] See Mrs Hindley.
Hindley, John, 4 Gt Ancoats St, Manchester, cm (1822–25). [D]
Hindley, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1812). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Edward Myers and John Ward Turner, and admitted freeman on 7 October 1812. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hindley, Thomas, Bondgate Green, Ripon, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hindley, William, Webster's Entry, High St, Hull, Yorks., joiner and cm (1840). [D]
Hindley & Sons, Oxford St and Berners St, London, cm (1766– 1895). Incorporated Miles & Edwards, and Benjamin Nias. [Day and cash bks, letter bk, accounts and correspondence, Marylebone Lib., MS 494]
Hindmarsh, Matthew, Silver St, Newcastle, cm (1786). Advertised sale of mahogany, including ‘fourteen hundred feet of Jamaica Mahogany in Logs and Planks’, in Newcastle Courant, 16 September 1786.
Hindmarsh, Thomas, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumb., cm (1793). [D]
Hinds, Frederick, Ryders Ct, Leicester Fields, London (1740–76). See Frederick Hints (or Hintz).
Hinds, George, Leicester St, London, cm (1784). [Poll bk]
Hinds, George, Effingham Pl., Ramsgate, Kent, cm and undertaker (1823–29). [D]
Hinds, J., Bristol, cm (1837–40). Trading at Charles St, 1837– 38, and Duke St, 1839–40. [D]
Hinds, John, Liverpool, cm later shipwright (1780). Admitted freeman on 11 September 1780. [Liverpool freemen reg.] Possibly John Hind.
Hinds, Peter, Witham, Hull, Yorks., cm (1790–99). [D]
Hinds, T. W., 65 White Lion St, Pentonville, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hinds, William, 19 Ann St, Birmingham, cabinet case maker (1835). [D]
Hindson, Joseph, Townhead, Penrith, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Hine, Robert, High St, Highgate, London, carver, gilder and paper hanger (1839). [D]
Hingston, James, North St, Bristol, carpenter, cm and upholder (1791–1826). Recorded at no. 7 in 1795; as Hingston & Richardson at no. 6, 1805–06; nos 6–7 in 1816; and 7, 1817–25. In 1791 he was paid £42 10s for work done for John Pinney of Gt George St, Bristol, now the Georgian House Museum. [D; Bristol Univ. Lib., J. Pinney's account bk] See Thomas Hingston.
Hingston, John, 41 Cirencester Pl., Fitzroy Sq., London, cm. Regency rosewood ‘Musicatheca’ recorded bearing inscription: ‘John Hingston invenit et fecit’ and address. Hinged top raised with an easel support and a milled border. There is a frieze drawer and an open compartment with shaped dividers, and further drawer in base. [Sotheby's, 29 March 1968, lot 250]
Hingston, Thomas, Bristol, cm, u, appraiser and undertaker (1826–40). Trading at 7 North St, 1826–35, as Hingston, Brice & Co. in 1832; at 6 North St, 1836–37; and 10 Park St, with manufactory at 10 St James's Sq., 1838–40. [D] See James Hingston.
Hinksman, Thomas, Bromyard, near Hereford, cm (1830–35). [D]
Hinley, Daniel, High Wycombe, Bucks., cm (1825). Son bapt. in 1825. [PR (bapt.)]
Hinsley, George, res. at Hinsley's Ct, Wellington St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). Recorded also as a joiner in Finkle St, Hull, with res. in Hinsley's Ct, 1838. [D]
Hinsley, John, Hull, Yorks., cm (1808–42). Addresses given in New Dock St, 1818–20; Paradise Row, 1823; 20 Sewer Lane, 1838; and 1 Keelin's Entry, Mytongate, 1842. App. to John Dickon of Hull in April 1808. Took apps named Joseph Knight of Hull in June 1817; John Hunter of Hull in July 1819; and James Whyte jnr, of Hull in June 1821. In September 1823 assigned his apprenticeship of John Hunter to William Silbon. [D; Hull app. reg.]
Hinton, —, address unrecorded. Stamp found on elm joint stool with rectangular top on turned columnar legs and H-shaped stretcher. [Christie's, 12 June 1980, lot 128]
Hinton, John, London (?), turner (1750). Submitted bill for 18s 6d to the Countess of Oxford on 25 September 1750. [Notts. RO, DD5P. 14/1 Ledger house bk]
Hinton, William, Cheltenham, Glos., u and cm (1822–40). Addresses given at 132 High St in 1822, 12 St George's Pl. in 1830 and North St in 1839. [D]
Hints (or Hintz), Frederick, at ‘The Porcupine’, Newport St, near Leicester Fields, London, cm (1738). Advertised in Daily Post, 22 May 1738, the sale of ‘a choice Parcel of Desks and Book cases of mahogany, tea tables, tea chests, tea-boards etc. all curiously made and inlaid with fine figures of Brass and mother-of-pearl. They will be sold at a very reasonable rate, the maker Frederick Hintz, designing soon to go abroad.’ An alternative spelling of his name — Hintz — indicates that he was of German origin. The labels of a Frederick Hinds of Ryders Ct, Leicester Fields, presumably the same maker, or a relative, have been found on some stringed instruments dating between 1740 and 1776. [GCM; C. Life, 9 March 1945 and 2 May 1957; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23; V&A Bulletin, January 1965, p. 13]
Hipkins, Russell, 34 New Rd, St George's East, London, carver and gilder (1817–20). [D]
Hipkins, S., Dudley, Worcs., chairmaker (1829). [D]
Hippisley, Edward & Britten, Stephen, Bristol, carpenters and furniture makers (1733–37). Between 1733–37 carried out work in St John's Church, Bristol, charging a total of £713 15s 1d, including £249 1s 8d for panelling, £150 for altarpiece; £45 for pulpit; £47 10s for communion rails, and £2 12s for table. The bill was disputed, legal action taken and assessors appointed who found the work ‘good, Substantial, Artificial & Workmanlike’. Their work was destroyed in 19th-century restorations. [Furn. Hist., 1976, pl. 22A]
Hipston, William, Dover St, Hanover Sq., London, upholder (1778). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., July 1778.
Hipwood, Joseph & Benjamin, London, cm and u (1820–29). Trading at 24 Cannon St Rd, St George's East, 1820–28; nos 23–24 in 1823; and also 12 Wellclose Sq., 1827–28. Joseph was recorded alone in 1826–27 and 1829. Together they took out Sun Insurance policies on 2 October 1823 for £400 on 23–24 Cannon St Rd; £250 on stock and utensils in houses; £100 on workshop in yard behind; £100 on stock utensils and goods in trust or on commission; and £150 on those in open yard and under workshop. Joseph alone insured household goods at 24 Cannon St Rd for £300; and with Benjamin insured nos 23–24 for £500. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 496, refs 100857–58; 1008587–90]
Hircombe, Thomas, Speenhamland, Newbury, Berks., cm (1823). [D]
Hird, George, Boroughbridge, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hird, John, Boroughbridge, York., joiner and cm (1822–34). [D]
Hird, William, address unrecorded. On 4 March 1750 submitted a bill to Lady Monson for ‘A Large Japan Tea Water’, costing £1 5s, and two small ones, £1 15s. Bill paid on 9 March 1750. [Lincoln RO, Monson 12]
Hirst, Edward, 15 Marshall St, Carnaby Mkt, London, u (1784). [D; poll bk]
Hirst, James, Garden St, Wakefield, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hirst, John, top of Green, Huddersfield, Yorks., cm (1814–18). [D]
Hirst, John, Liversedge, Yorks., joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Hirst, John, Holmefirth, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hirst, Jonathan, Clayton, near Bradford, Yorks., cm (1822–30). [D]
Hirst, Joseph, Church St, Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1830–37). [D]
Hirst, Robert, Whitby, Yorks., cm and u (1834). [D]
Hiscock, Jos., Shaftesbury, Dorset, joiner and cm (1798). [D]
Hiscox, John, 133 Thomas St, Bristol, cm (1817–19). [D]
Hitch, James, Star Lane, Ware, Herts., cm and u (1832–39). [D]
Hitcham, Richard, Totteridge, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1771–1841). Aged 70 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hitchcock, Abraham, 2 New Mkt Passage, Broad St, Bristol, cm (1775). [D]
Hitchcock, James, 36 Hackney Rd, London, chair, sofa and bath chair maker (1822–23). [D]
Hitchcock, Joseph, address unrecorded, upholder (1697–d.1744). Son of Joseph Hitchcock of Ebisham, Surrey, yeoman, deceased. App. to John Staples on 5 May 1697, and William Giffard on 26 February 1701. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 16 May 1729, and beadle of the Co., 1740–44. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hitchcock, Joseph, London. On 22 October 1729 signed a receipt for £6 5s received on behalf of his master John Howard, upholder, of the ‘Talbot’, Long Lane, West Smithfield, London. [Herefs. RO, Foley papers, F/AIII/55]
Hitchcock, Peter, Liverpool, cm (1819). App. to John O'Neill in 1819. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Hitchcock, Robert, Woolwich, London, cm and u (1832–39). Trading at Wellington St, 1832–34, and 35 Green's End, 1838–39. [D]
Hitchcock, Samuel, 14 Widegate St, Bishopsgate St, London, carver and gilder (1808). [D]
Hitchcock, Thomas, Mint Lane, Exeter, Devon, cm (1821). Son John Lendon bapt. at St Olave's on 5 September 1821. [PR (bapt.)]
Hitchcock, Thomas, St Michael's Sq., Southampton, Hants., cm (1839). [D]
Hitchcock, William, St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, u (1726). Declared bankrupt, British Journal, 7 May 1726.
Hitchens, —, Upper West St, Gloucester, chairmaker (1802). [D]
Hitchin, Charles, at ‘The White Hart’, East end of St Paul's, London, cm (1709). Named in newspapers in 1709. [Heal]
Hitchin, William, 21 Bridgewater Gdns, Barbican, London, tea caddy, snuff box and card case maker etc. (1835–39). [D]
Hitchings, Daniel, Horsley, Glos., chairmaker (1800). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 27 December 1800 for £300, of which £180 accounted for his new house and shop; £50 on stock and utensils, and £20 on his stable. [GL, Sun MS vol. 37, ref. 73191]
Hitchings, John, Gloucester, cm (1818). Child bapt. at St Catherine's Church in 1818. [PR (bapt.)] Probably John Hitchins.
Hitchings, John, Barton St, Bristol, fancy chair maker (1819–40). Recorded at no. 12 in 1819 and no. 4, 1820–23, 1826–40 [D]
Hitchings, William & Co., North St, Bedminster, Bristol, chairmakers (1805–22). Recorded at the ‘Star Inn’, North St, 1814–30. [D]
Hitchins, —, 46 Ship St, Brighton, Sussex, chair bottomer (1832). [D]
Hitchins, John, Gloucester, chairmaker (1813). Child bapt. at St Michael's Church in 1813. [PR (bapt.)] Probably John Hitchings.
Hitcombe, Thomas, Union Rd, Clapham, London, cm and u (1832). [D]
Hitterley, William, address unrecorded, upholder (1708–24). Son of William Hitterley, freeman haberdasher of London; app. to Thomas Coulton on 5 May 1708, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 5 February 1723/24. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hixon, Thomas, London, u (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hixon, Thomas, 8 John St West, Blackfriars Rd, London, u (1829). [D]
Hoale, Amos, New St, Ross, Herefs., cm (1830). [D]
Hoale, Moses, New St, Ross, Herefs., cm (1835). [D]
Hoar, Richard, Petersfield, Hants., cm (1839). [D]
Hoare, E. W., address unknown. Satinwood sewing table, c.1800, recorded bearing stamp of ‘E W HOARE CVII’. Table has two drawers, a bag drawer, and fine turned legs.
Hoare, James, Hull, Yorks., cm (1814). App. to Robert Waugh in May 1814. [Hull app. reg.]
Hoare, Richard, 18 Gracechurch St, London, carver and gilder, looking-glass and frame maker, printseller and glazier (1804–39). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 11 October 1803 for £500 on house at 30 Brooke St, Holborn, in tenure of a turner and chinaman; on 28 June 1804 for £1,000, including £500 on stock and utensils; and on 8 November 1820 for £1,000, £400 on stock, utensils and goods in trust, prints and paintings; and £65 on stock of glass. Rococo-style giltwood mirror recorded bearing label. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 430, ref. 527233; vol. 430, ref. 762911; vol. 487, ref. 972854; Christie's NY, 20 June 1979, lot 106, illus.]
Hoare, Thomas, London. Tradesman employed by Morel & Seddon who signed the frame of a dining chair supplied to Windsor Castle in 1828. [Gilbert, Leeds Furn. Cat., vol. 1, pp. 101–02]
Hoare, Thomas, 5 Wardour St, Soho, London, u and cm (1835–39). [D]
Hoarsy, John, address unrecorded. Possibly the maker of a Charles II walnut open armchair from Stoneleigh Abbey, Warks. Chair has narrow cane-panelled splat edged with scrolls, crown and putto cresting. A surviving account from John Hoarsy, receipted 13 May 1682, totalling £3 14s 2d includes £1 4s ‘for fashionable cand chayers carved & varnished at 8s’, and £2 4s ‘for Elbo Chayers of ye same at 11s.’ [Christie's, 15 October 1981, lot 99; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, ref. 664]
Hobbird, Martin, 16 Noble St, Falcon Sq., London, upholder and undertaker (1817). [D]
Hobbs, —, 3 Leather Lane, Hampstead Yd, Holborn, London, cm (1808). Rented workshops and sawpits at above address from John Brook, carpenter, of 27 Castle St, Holborn, who took out insurance on 7 April 1808. [GL, Sun MS vol. 443, ref. 814880]
Hobbs, George, London, cm (1764). Mahogany kneehole writing table recorded with label inside drawer stating: ‘London 27 June 1764. Mr. Field. My sisters receipt shall be a discharge from me to you whenever you shall please to pay her. George Hobbs.’ ‘July 13 1764. Received of Mr. Field of Campton the sum of Ten Pounds eleven shillings and sixpence in full for a library Table bought of my brother Geo. Hobbs and all demands by me. Ann Hobbs. Witness Wm. Aspin.’. Table has three drawers at the top, with three graduated drawers at each side; original pierced back-plate handles, leather top, and dummy drawers on reverse. [Conn., June 1953, p. 35]
Hobbs, George, Windsor, Berks., cm (1806). Named in rate bks, but did not poll, in 1806.
Hobbs, George, Mary St, Bridgwater, Som., cm (1840). [D]
Hobbs, James, High St, Abingdon, Berks., brazier, tinman, smith and upholder (1784). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1784 for £600, of which utensils and stock accounted for £500. [GL, Sun MS vol. 321, p. 523]
Hobbs, John, London, cm and u (1827–39). Recorded at 13 Charlotte St, Old St Rd in 1827; 9 Exmouth St, Spitalfields in 1829; 7 Yardley St, Spitalfields in 1835; and 27 King's Rd, Chelsea in 1839. [D]
Hobbs, John, Ebrington St, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1836). [D]
Hobbs, John, Marsh Lane, Southampton, Hants., cm (1839). [D]
Hobbs, Joshua, London, cm (1808–28). Addresses given at 41 Eagle St, Red Lion Sq., 1808; 59 Leather Lane, Holborn in 1813; no. 45 in 1816; 20 Wilson St, Finsbury in 1820; 23 Old Bethlem in 1822; and 2 Liverpool St, Finsbury Circus, 1826– 29. [D]
Hobbs, Nic., corner of Long Acre and St Martin's Lane, London, cm and u (1753). Notice in Public Advertiser, 9 June 1753, read: ‘Lost on Wednesday the 7th inst. a Parcel cont a red letter Portfolio, with Drawings & other Papers, three or four Pieces of Flock Paper, & two mahogany legs for chairs tied tog in a White Linnen wrapper. Whoever brings the said things to Mr. Nic. Hobbs’ Cabinet & Upholstery Warehouse, the corner of Long Acre & St. Martin's Lane, shall have half a guinea reward, they being of no use but to the Owner.’
Hobbs, Nicholas, West Exe, Tiverton, Devon, cm (1830–38). [D]
Hobbs, Samuel, 24 Lower Maudlin Lane, Bristol, cm (1775). [D]
Hobbs, William, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1790). [D]
Hobcraft, Edward jnr, Gravesend, Kent, cm (1824). [D] See John and John Edward Hobcraft of Gravesend.
Hobcraft, John, London (?), joiner, carpenter and builder (1768–84). Submitted long bills for work done for Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End, Essex, between 1768–84. Between 1 June and 9 September 1768 he carried out designs for a Gothic chapel, including details of the interior, and furnishings such as ‘seats and Desks for the side Isles and makeing a modle for Each of Ditto; ‘Drawing and Estimating the Parson's Desk & Chair and Steps’; designing the altar rail and niches above; the iron gate for the cummunion rail, and ‘makeing a modle for Parsons Chair & Desk & Steps’. On 9 September Hobcraft also charged for ‘8 Journeys to Audley End to give Directions & measure the Work’. The designs for the chapel were generally sent to ‘Wheeler’, perhaps the architect. From October 1769 to 15 August 1770 Hobcraft's bill included £37 2s for ‘212 Days Works of Joiners makeing Gothic Chair & Desk’, £16 for ‘Alkins Bill for Carving’, and materials for making the steps on castors. His work for the chapel totalled £32 12s 3½d. Other work which he carried out for Sir John Griffin Griffin included, on 1 May 1770 ‘makeing a Straining frame for a Picture’ and a peruke stand. On 18 December he charged for ‘Mahogany from Messrs. Park & Reed’; and £4 1s for ‘a Gothick Pattern Chair & Drawing for Do.’, and packing case. The full bill was paid by 20 November 1772. Hobcraft submitted a further bill to Sir John on 24 May 1775, charging £10 10s ‘To 5 Temple seats or Chairs’; £5 5s ‘To a Pedestal Table for Temple’; and £6 3s ‘To Carving Ditto by Mr. Alkin’. He also provided ‘Strong Dovetaild packing Cases for Marble pedestale from Nollekins’ and for a harpsichord; and ‘A Cart from Berkley Square and New Burlington Street to ye Waggon at Mr. Nollekins’. The bill totalled £29 13s 2d and was paid on 29 March 1776. As Lord Howard de Walden, Sir John Griffin Griffin paid Hobcraft £16 19s 10d in 1784, including payment for ‘6 Garden seats at £2. 8s.’ [Essex RO, D/DBy/A30/11; A34/3; ALL3/6] He is probably the John Hobcraft of Titchfield St, London, who carved the wooden fireplace in the Green Room at Broadlands and worked at Croome Court and Bowood. [C. Life, 11 December 1980, p. 2250] He was possibly also the supplier of the Gothic furniture at Tissington Hall, Derbs. [C. Life, 22 July 1976, p. 216]
Hobcraft, John, Gravesend, Kent, cm (1824–29). Trading in High St, 1829. [D] See Edward Hobcraft.
Hobcraft, John Edward, Windmill St, Gravesend, Kent, cm (1832–34). [D] See Edward and John Hobcraft.
Hobday, William, Borough Longport, near Canterbury, Kent, cm (1780). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1780 for £200 of which utenils and stock accounted for £50. [GL, Sun MS vol. 284, p. 209]
Hobson, G., London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hobson, George, Bean Ing, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hobson, Henry, Frodsham, Cheshire, u (1839). Admitted freeman of Chester on 3 June 1839. [Chester freemen rolls]
Hobson, James, Newcastle, cm (1740). Declared bankrupt, York Courant, 18 January 1740.
Hobson, John, Boyne's Yd, near White Cloth Hall, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hobson, Jonath., Thames St, London, upholder (1753). Declared bankrupt, Gents. Mag., December 1753.
Hobson, Joseph, 39 Cooper St, Sheffield, Yorks., cm (1793–97). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D]
Hobson, Joseph, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1776–1841). Aged 65 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hobson, Michael, 27 Bottle-bank, Gateshead, Co. Durham, cm and joiner (1838). [D]
Hobson, Nathaniel, Coventry, Warks., cm (1731–54). Took app. named Dan. Mason in 1731 for £20. [S of G, app. index]
Hobson, Nathaniel, London, cm (1754). Subscribed to Chippendale's Directory, 1754, and in the same year was bound app. to Chippendale for a consideration of £20. [PRO, IR 1/19]
Hobson, Samuel, London, carver and gilder (1808–37). Trading at 15 Castle St, Long Acre in 1808 and 17 Phoenix St, Soho, 1835–37. [D]
Hobson, Thomas, 9 Gresse St, Rathbone Pl., London, cm and undertaker (1827–28). [D]
Hobson, William, Darlington, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–34). Trading at Market Pl., 1827, and Tubwell Row, 1828–34. [D]
Hoby, —, address unrecorded, u (1831). In September 1831 charged 13s 7d to 3rd Lord Braybrooke for work done at Audley End, Essex, Billingbear, Berks., or his London house. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A358]
Hoby, James, Skinner St, Snowhill, London, u, trimming manufacturer and warehouseman (1823–39). Trading at no. 17 in 1823, and as Hoby, Robson & Knowles at no. 22, 1835–39. [D]
Hockey, Thos., 10 Kingsmead Sq., Bath, Som., cm (1833). [D]
Hocking, John jnr, 4 James St, Plymouth, Devon, u (1823–24). [D]
Hocking, William, 4 Cornwall St, Devonport, Devon, cm and u (1830). [D]
Hockmill, Daniel, King St, Westminster, London, cm and broker (1779–83). Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1779 for £100, £80 accounting for utensils, stock and goods; and in 1783 for £300, £240 on utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 277, p. 263; vol. 317, p. 84] See H. Hocknill.
Hockney, John, 11 St Anne's St, Manchester, u and paper hanging manufacturer (1825). [D]
Hocknill, H., King's St, Westminster, London, upholder and auctioneer (1784). [D] See Daniel Hockmill.
Hodder, Benjamin, South St, Dorchester, Dorset, cm (1840). [D]
Hodder, Charles, Southwark, London, cm and upholder (1755–87). Recorded at ‘The Mahogany Desk & Bookcase’, corner of Union Yd, no. 100 Tooley St, 1776–87. Took app. named Gilbert in 1755. On 7 March 1766, Charles Hodder, cm and widower of St Olave's, Southwark, and Sarah Osman, widow of St John's, Southwark, were named in the Surrey allegations of marriage. Trade card recorded. [D; S of G, app. index; Heal]
Hodder, John, address unrecorded, turner (1740). Son of William Hodder of Som.; app. to Nathaniel Trimbey, turner, of Marden, Wilts., on 23 June 1740 by common indenture and counterpart, for £3. [Wilts. Apps and their Masters]
Hodder, John, Belvedere Rd, Lambeth, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hodder, Richard, Market St, Croydon, Surrey, cm (b.c.1770–d.1845). Recorded in Croydon at the time of the 1811 Census.
Hodder & Son, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants., cm, brokers and auctioneers (1792–98). [D]
Hoddinet, —, Sherborne, Dorset, cm (1763). Supplied a ‘Norway Oak Bureau’ to the Rev. James Woodforde of Ansford, Som., on 3 October 1763, costing £3 3s. On 15 October 1763 valued the contents of a house at Wells belonging to James Woodforde's uncle. [The Ansford Diary of the Rev. James Woodforde, ed. R. L. Winstanley, vol. 1, p. 73; vol. 2, p. 74] Either John Hoddinet or James Hoddinot(t)(s).
Hoddinett, John, Sherborne, Dorset, cm (1763–d. by 1768). Took app. named Allen in 1736. [S of G, app. index] Succeeded by:
Hoddinot(t)(s), James, Sherborne, Dorset, cm, u and sworn appraiser (1768–74). Announced that he was taking over the business of his late brother, John, in Western Flying Post or Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury and General Advertiser, 30 May 1768. His notice read: ‘Gentlemen and Ladies may be assured of having their work done in the most elegant Manner, and on as reasonable Terms as in London. N.B. He has a large and genteel Assortment of the newest Patterns of Paper-Hangings, which he sells and puts up in the best Manner.’ J. Hoddinott, u, late of Sherborne, declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., December 1770. James took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1774 for £200, £100 accounting for utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 324, p. 375]
Hodge, James, Liverpool, cm (1792). Found guilty, with James Basnett, turner, of stealing a case bottle and rum, the property of J. Lee, at the General Quarter Sessions in Liverpool, and ‘committed to the house of Correction for two months’. [Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 17 December 1792]
Hodge, James, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1798–1814). Address given at Southside St in 1814. [D]
Hodge, John, 13 Rose St, Covent Gdn, London, cm (1782–85). Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1782 for £100, £50 accounting for utensils, stock and goods; and on 26 September 1785 for £100 on utensils, stock and goods in trust, and £80 on household goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 304, p. 319; vol. 331, p. 630]
Hodge, John, 20 Charlotte St, Fitzroy Sq., London, u, appraiser and undertaker (1809–11). [D]
Hodge, John, 69 Old St, St Luke's, London, cm (1837). [D]
Hodge, Robert, address unrecorded. Mahogany armchair, c.1780 or later, recorded with small stamp of raised letters on seat rail, ‘ROBT HODGE’. Chair has upholstered oval back, arm pads, stuffed-over seat, and straight front legs.
Hodge, Samuel, James St, Devonport (or Plymouth) Dock, Devon, cm (1814–38). Recorded at no. 82, 1823–38. [D]
Hodge(s), William, 9 Ratcliff(e), Highway, London, cm and broker (1780–93). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1780 for £300, £100 accounting for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 287, p. 528]
Hodges, George, Mardol, Shrewsbury, Salop, u (1796). [Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Hodges, Henry, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hodges, Jesse, Weymouth, Dorset, joiner and cm (1798). [D]
Hodges, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1727–34). Son of Thomas Hodges, freeman painter stainer of London. App. to Thomas Hathaway on 7 June 1727 and Richard Righton on 7 August 1730. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 October 1734. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hodges, John, Shrewsbury, Salop, u (1777–80). Recorded at Shoplatch when took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £500 of which £400 accounted for utensils and stock. Named in the Shrewsbury burgess roll in 1780. [GL, Sun MS vol. 262, p. 66]
Hodges, John, 9 Mercer St, London (?), upholder (1781). Insured houses for £300 in 1781. [GL, Sun MS vol. 295, p. 373]
Hodges, John, 1 Aldgate Within, London, u, bed and mattress warehouseman (1829–35). [D]
Hodges, John, 10 Hoxton Mkt, London, cm and beer engine maker (1835). [D]
Hodges, Joseph, parish of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, cm (1774). [Poll bk]
Hodges, Richard, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, Salop, cm (1796). [D; Shrewsbury burgess roll]
Hodges, Richard, Tewkesbury, Glos., cm (1814). [PR (bapt.)]
Hodges, Richard, Hereford, cm (1818). [Poll bk]
Hodges, Richard, Homend, Ledbury, Herefs., turner and chairmker (1830–35). [D]
Hodges, Richard, Ordnance Wharf, Pedlar's Acre, London, Tunbridge-ware manufacturer (1826–28). [D]
Hodges, Richard, 54 Gravel Lane, Southwark, London, cm, u and undertaker (1835–39). [D] See Thomas Hodges.
Hodges, Thomas, Bristol, upholder (1739). [Poll bk]
Hodges, Thomas, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1805–11). Addresses given at 54 Paradise St in 1805, 61 Church St in 1810, and no. 64 in 1811. [D]
Hodges, Thomas, 15 Edward St, Blackfriars Rd, London, chairmaker (1808). [D]
Hodges, Thomas, 28 Gravel Lane, Southwark, London, cm (1809–29). Trading as Thomas & Son in 1820. [D] See Richard Hodges.
Hodges, Thomas, 101 Dale End, Birmingham, cm and upholder (1816–18). [D]
Hodges, Thomas, Chester, carver and gilder (1816–37). Recorded at Bridge St Row, 1816–18, and City Walls, 1834. [D]
Hodges, Thomas, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, u (1832–36). Son William by Frances Hodges bapt. on 6 June 1832; and son Frank on 7 September 1836. [PR (bapt.)]
Hodges, Thomas, Manchester, carver and gilder (1833). His son, James Edward's death aged 20 on 22 August 1833 at Manchester reported in Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales, 3 September.
Hodges, W. J., 16 Bouverie St, London, writing desk and dressing case maker (1829–35). [D]
Hodges, William, Sawclose, Bath, Som., cm (1819–26). [D]
Hodges & Lawrence, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury, Salop, u (1786– 98). [D]
Hodges & Pratt, 15 Gower Pl., Euston Sq., London, carver and gilder (1835). [D]
Hodgkins, Charles, 26 Colmore Row, Birmingham, cm (1770– 80). Insured his house for £300 in 1776. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 253, p. 519]
Hodgkins, Timothy, Chipping Campden, Oxon., cm, u, undertaker and auctioneer (1823–30). Trading at High St in 1830. [D]
Hodgkins, William, Birmingham, cm and u (c.1753–1801). Addresses given at Bull St, 1767; 9 The Square, 1770–80, no. 81 in 1773; and Long Entry, Colmore Row, 1800–01. Probably two generations are concerned here. Received payment for furniture supplied to Matthew Boulton and to his warehouse, 1753–63, including £15 15s ‘for making my desk & wood & brasswork’. Took app. named Stokes in 1762. [D; City of Birmingham Lib., Boulton MS early accounts, 161– 66; notebook 1, p. 43; S of G, app. index]
Hodgkins & Son, Chipping Norton, Oxon., cm, u and builders (1823–53). Trade card reads: ‘Carpets & Hearth Rugs, Bedds, Ironmongery, Paper Hanging, Coffin Furniture, Glasses Framed & Silvered, General Assortment of Household Furniture, Barometers, Umbrellas, Desks, Tea Chests & Caddies…’. [D; Johnson Coll., Bodleian Lib., Oxford; Furn. Hist., 1974, pl. 45]
Hodgkinson, Francis, Liverpool, chairmaker (1807–14). Addresses given at 16 Cunliffe St, 1807–11, with shop at 34 Park Lane, 1811, and no. 42, 1813–14. [D]
Hodgkinson, Francis, Salford and Blackburn, Lancs., chairmaker (1828). [D]
Hodgkinson, Isaac, Nottingham, cm (c.1800–60). One of a family of cm and chairmakers of the name of Hodgkinson or Hodgkison. The family lived in the Amersham, High Wycombe and Thame districts between 1770–80. One of them, another Isaac Hodgkinson, chairmaker, emigrated to Australia and formed a business with Henry Corlass of Yorkshire, cm. Other members of the Hodgkinson family spread to other parts of England, including John Hodgkinson, chairmaker, to Carlisle, and Isaac, cm, to Nottingham. The family chairmaking firm is still in existence in High Wycombe, the family having moved there from either Derbyshire, or Lancashire, possibly the Preston area, long associated with chairmaking.
Hodgkinson, James, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1811–41). Aged 30 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hodgkinson, John, Carlisle, Cumb., chairmaker, see Isaac Hodgkinson.
Hodgkinson, Richard, Grove St, Retford, Notts., u (1832). [D]
Hodgkinson, Samuel, Snidullgate, Dean parish, Westhoughton, near Bolton, Lancs., chairmaker (1825). [D]
Hodgkinson, Thomas & Co., 91 New Bond St, London, furniture printers, carpet manufacturers and general u (1837). [D]
Hodgson, —, Newington, London, cm and upholder (1808). [D]
Hodgson, Charles, Aiskew, near Bedale, Yorks., cm (1840). [D]
Hodgson, Christopher, Lancaster, cm (1789–90). Lancaster freemen rolls state ‘of Liverpool’.
Hodgson, Daniel, Newcastle, u (1723–41). Admitted freeman by apprenticeship on 22 July 1723. [Newcastle freemen reg. and poll bk]
Hodgson, David, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow Records, 1784–97. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hodgson, Elizabeth, Suffolk St, Liverpool, u (1835–39). Trading at no. 6, 1835–37, and no. 11 in 1838. [D]
Hodgson, Francis, Wych St, London, cm and u (1787–93). Recorded at no. 49 in 1787; no. 47 in 1789; and no. 49 in 1793. Insured goods to the value of £300 on 8 June 1787. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 342, ref. 531409]
Hodgson, George, Brook St, Holborn, near ‘The Sun Tavern’, London, u and cm (1745). [Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23]
Hodgson, George, York, cm (1775). Son of Michael Hodgson, deceased, of Scarborough; app. to John Sanderson, cm, on 9 November 1775. [York app. reg.]
Hodgson, Henry, Oxford Rd, High Wycombe, Bucks., carver (1839). [D]
Hodgson, Isaac, 21 Hanover St, Liverpool, with shop in College Lane, cm (1818). [D]
Hodg(e)son, James, Lancaster, joiner and cm (1769–89). App. to Bateman & Forrest in 1769, and admitted freeman, 1779– 80. Named in the Gillow records, 1786–89. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Hodgson, James, Eastgate, Pickering, Yorks., cm and chairmaker (1830–40). [D]
Hodgson, John, Lancaster, cm (1767–68). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hodgson, John, Caton, Lancs., cm (1784). [Lancaster poll bk]
Hodgson, John, Lancaster, cm (1788–1826). Two contemporary tradesmen of the same name are recorded, one app. to R. Mashiter in 1785, the other to J. Neill in 1787. One was admitted freeman, 1789–90, the other, 1801–02. One was named in the Gillow records, 1788–1804. One was trading at Friargate in 1811 when he announced in the Lancaster Gazette, 1 June that ‘he intends to decline the undertaking of funerals’. John Hodgson, cm, traded in Moor Lane, 1816–22; and of Moor Lane and Friar St he advertised in the same paper on 13 May 1826 ‘that he has taken into partnership, his Foreman, John Battersby, who has been many years in his service; and Robert Battersby, late of the firm of Lodge & Battersby of this town; and it is their intention to carry on the business upon a more extensive scale, under the firm Hodgson & Battersbys at the same shop and premises in Friar Street and Moor Lane…’. A notice in Lancaster Gazette, 13 May 1826 read: ‘Turner & Hodgson, upholsterers, return their thanks to their numerous friends and the public, for all favours conferred upon them in the above business and respectfully solicit a continuance of their support.’ [D; Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Hodgson, John, Hull, Yorks., cm (1803–06). Trading at 16 Robinson Row in 1803 and Witham in 1806. [D]
Hodgson, John, Liverpool, cm (1811–34). Recorded at 24 Limekiln Lane in 1811; no. 32 in 1813–14; Bloomsbury Buildings, Milton St in 1816; and 48 Milton St in 1834. [D] See John Hodson of Liverpool.
Hodgson, John, St Ann's Staith, Whitby, Yorks., carver and gilder (1823). [D]
Hodgson, John, Back St, Brampton, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1829–34). [D]
Hodgson, John, Maldon, Essex, cm (1832–39). [D]
Hodgson, Joseph, Liverpool, cm and u (1818–19). Trading at 2 Limekiln Lane in 1818. Marriage to Miss Mary Ann Alderson, lamp and oil merchant, on Tuesday 13 April 1819, reported in Liverpool Mercury, 23 April. [D]
Hodgson, Joseph, Workington, Cumb., cm and joiner (1834). [D]
Hodgson, Leonard, Staindrop, near Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, cm (1815–17). Daughters bapt. on 11 May 1815 and 30 November 1817. [PR (bapt.)]
Hodgson, Leonard, Liverpool, cm (1816–19). Recorded at 18 White Hill St in 1816, and in partnership with Thomas Guy at 36 Wood St in 1818. Dissolution of this partnership announced in Liverpool Mercury, 3 December 1819. [D]
Hodgson, Mrs, 59 Sir Thomas Building, Liverpool, u (1813–14). [D]
Hodgson, Mary, 14 Manesty's Lane, Liverpool, u (1818). [D]
Hodgson, Philip, Newcastle, u (1777). [Poll bk]
Hodgson, Ralph, York, cm (1831). Son of Ralph Hodgson of Holgate, York; app. to John Taylor, cm, on 26 April 1831. [York app. reg.]
Hodgson, Richard, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1761). Former app., Richard Jolly, petitioned freedom in 1761. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Hodgson, Richard, Wolsingham, Co. Durham, spinning wheel maker (1827). [D]
Hodgson, Richard, Camberwell, London, cm and u (1826–29). Trading at High St in 1826. Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 16 January 1829.
Hodgson, Robert, Preston, Lancs., cm (1702–22). Named in the Preston Guild record of burgesses in 1702 being admitted on payment of a fine of £3; and named again in 1722.
Hodgson, S., 7 Swan Ct, Gt Dover St, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hodgson, Septimus, Walcot Pl., Lambeth, London, u (1826–35). [D]
Hodgson, Thomas, Lancaster, cm (1773–80). App. to H. Baines in 1773, and admitted freeman, 1779–80. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hodgson, Thomas, 12 Tufton St, Westminster, London, cm (1787). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 14 February 1787 for £300 on household goods, and stock in a timber workshop in the yard. [GL, Sun MS vol. 342, ref. 527583]
Hodgson, Thomas, London, u (1808–12). Trading at 40 Blackman St, Southwark, 1808–11; in parnership with James Hodgson, 1809–11; and at 24 Westminster Rd in 1812. Declared bankrupt, Ackermann's Repository of Arts, July 1809. [D]
Hodgson, Thomas, Thomas, York, cm (1812–34). Addresses given at Stamford Bridge in 1820; and 41 Walmgate in 1830. Son of Richard Hodgson, yeoman of Acomb, York; app. to John Taylor, cm, on 2 March 1812, and admitted freeman in 1820. [D; York app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hodgson, Thomas, High St, Camberwell, London, cm and u (1822). [D]
Hodgson, Thomas, 15 Middle Row, Reading, Berks., u and cm (1826–40). [D]
Hodgson, Thomas, Church St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1832). [D]
Hodgson, William, Gt Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, u and cm (1777–1811). Addresses given at no. 39 in 1777, no. 70, 1783–1803, and no. 50, dates unspecified. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1777 for £1,000 of which utensils, stock and goods accounted for £720; and on 9 May 1801 for £500. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 260, p. 591; vol. 419, ref. 718347]
Hodgson, William, 10 Lord St, Chorlton Row, Manchester, cm (1825). [D]
Hodgson, William, Wigton, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828–34). Addresses given at West St in 1828–29; Union St in 1829; and Water St in 1834. [D]
Hodgson, William, Gt Dockray, Penrith, Cumb., chairmaker (1834). [D]
Hodkin, Christopher, Holywell St, Chesterfield, Derbs., cm (1818–22). [D]
Hodkin, Daniel, Holywell St, Chesterfield, Derbs., cm (1818–22). [D]
Hodsden, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1686–1717). Son of Richard Hodsden, freeman plumber of London; app. to James Sargeant on 2 April 1686, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 18 June 1717. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hodskins, William, Birmingham, cm (1751). Took app. named Rock in 1751. [S of G, app. index]
Hodson, —, address unrecorded. In March 1725 supplied Sir John Chester with ‘Chairs & Stooles for ye Gt. Parlour’, costing £34, for Chicheley Hall, Bucks. [Bucks. RO, ref. D/C/ 3/ii)]
Hodson, —, address unrecorded, cm (1733–42). Named in the accounts for Holkham Hall, Norfolk in 1733 providing a table costing £1 8s; in 1734, a ‘neat two leaf screen on turn'd pillars, mahogany frame and covered with French prints’, £1 16s, and a ‘new pillar to a round mahogany table’, £1; and in 1742, a ‘beditt’, costing £5 15s. [V&A archives] Probably John Hodson of London.
Hodson, —, 16 Titchfield St, London. In 1782 supplied pier glasses, Carlo Maratta picture frames, a chimney glass, and ‘3 tops to glasses’ for Blickling Hall, Norfolk. [Norfolk RO, 19180]
Hodson, Benjamin, address unrecorded, upholder (1709–30). Son of Benjamin Hodson, clerk of Broughton, Hunts.; app. to Thomas Ferrers on 8 February 1709, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 6 May 1730. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hodson, Charles, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b.c. 1811–41). Aged 30 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hodson, John, London, upholder and cm (1709–86). Son of Thomas Hodson, innholder of Lincoln. App. to Thomas Arne jnr on 23 February 1709, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 December 1718. Took app. named Lawrence Rudyard, 1733–45. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Appears to have succeeded Robert Hodson, and acted as head of the firm of Hodson's, looking-glass and cabinet warehouse in Frith St, Soho, from 1723 until as late as 1786. An earlier address for John Hodson, in Bedford St, St Paul's, Covent Gdn, is given in 1718, when he insured goods and merchandise on 4 November with the Sun Co. A note added to the policy on 12 October 1723 stated that he had moved to ‘The Fleece’, Frith St, St Ann's. John Hodson took out another policy on 12 December 1730 for £1,400 on household goods and stock in trade in workshops adjoining the ‘Slade House’, next to his own house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 8, ref. 12498; vol. 33, ref. 52401] The firm appears to have been headed firstly by Robert Hodson, who wrote to the Earl of Radnor in September 1725 concerning a ‘compting bureau’ supplied to Longford Castle. [V&A archives] Later bills from Hodsons were generally submitted by John, and from 1730– 86 often have the same heading which shows furniture in the style of the 1730s–40s: elaborately carved pier and dressing tables, an elbow chair, tripod reading desk, japanned cabinet on stand, kettle table, and looking-glass with carved masks and flanking candle holders. The heading bears the inscription: ‘At Hodsons Looking Glass and Cabinet Warehouse in Frith Street, Soho, is ready made great variety of all sorts of Furniture in the neatest and most Fashionable manner, by choice and experienced Workmen employ'd in his own house. By which means Customers may better depend on the goodness of ye materials and duration of the Work: There are also many well contriV&Apos;d Machines for weak and Sickly people, all performd at moderate prizes, and in the utmost perfection. NB. Coach, Chair, and Sash Glasses are sold, at the very lowest prizes.’ [Banks Coll., BM; C. Life, 9 June 1966, p. 1462; 26 January 1967, p. 184] The earliest known bill with this heading was submitted to Robert Packer, Lord of Shellingford Manor, on 18 March 1730, and was for a pillar and claw table, dressing glass, walnut corner cupboard, and sconces. [Berks. RO, Hartley Russell MS D/EHy A2/4 and 36] In April 1732 John Hodson charged a Mr Stannix £4 12s for a table and various repairs. [Chetham Lib., Manchester, Halliwell-Phillipps Coll. of Broadsides, no. 1242] In 1736 he supplied mahogany tables costing £44 to Holkham Hall, Norfolk. [V&A archives] He sent two accounts to Lord Monson dated 1735 and 1741 [Lincoln RO, Monson papers]; and one to the Duke of Atholl of Blair Castle, Tayside, dated January 1738, amounting to £150 1s 6d. Items he supplied include a tripod table, mahogany claw table with galleried top, a fine carved and painted side table and a wine cooler. It may be possible to identify furniture from this commission with that still at Blair Castle. [Conn., April 1963, pp. 223–30; G. Bernard Hughes, ‘Mahogany Claw Tables’, C. Life, 17 March 1955, illus.; 18 November 1949; Heal] The usual heading occurred on a bill sent by Hodsons to Sir Herbert Pakington of Westwood Park, Worcs., dated 2 May 1733, for ‘a Large Oblong mohogeney dining Table with 2 flapps to hold 12 people’, costing £3 10s. [Worcs. RO, 2309–705: 380–17] A bill headed as before was submitted to Coll. Kennedy for items supplied to Dalquharran, 1735–36, costing a total of £14 6s. This included £3 18s for ‘6 Virginia walnutt Chairs’ on 3 October 1735; and £2 12s 6d for ‘a mohogoney Armd Chair on brass Castor’ on 18 September 1736, all with ‘seats Stuft and covered with black Leather’. On 24 December 1736 Hodsons charged for transporting looking-glasses from Chelsea to London; and on 14 February 1736–37, for packing furniture including a pillar and claw table, a ‘mahogeney Elbow Chair’, ‘6 Yoak back chairs’, and ‘18 Walnut Chairs’, and transporting them from Frith St to Scotland Yd, ‘& Expences it being parliament time’, and paying a man for ‘going to put the Goods on board the ship’. Hodson also cleaned and repaired furniture, beds, bedding and window curtains. [V&A archives] Another extant bill with the usual Hodson heading was sent to William Clayton in December 1744, totalling £17 8s, including £4 4s for a ‘neat wainscott Cloaths Press’; £10 10s for ‘10 Neat mohog. Chairs Stuft and covered with black Spanish leather studed with brass nails’; and two elbow chairs with quilted leather cushions. The bill to Clayton was receipted by P. Smagget for ‘Hodson & Self’. [Heal Coll., BM] Bills with the usual heading were sent from Hodson & Co. to the Duke of Gordon in 1745. The first, dated 28 March 1745 is for ‘2 Neat Redwood Standishes with Drawers & Covers’, for £1 6s. Another, dated and receipted by P. Smagget on 3 May 1745, was for ‘2 Neat Saxogotha Standishes with Drawers & Covers’, costing the same. On 1 June 1745 two further standishes were bought, one of ‘neat alliganxant’, with silver handle and hinges; and both with cut glass bottles mounted with silver, totalling £5 10s. [Scottish RO, GD 44/51/202/2/23 and 33; GD 44/51/300/1/62] See Hodson & Rudyard. A.E.
Hodson, John, at the ‘Sherpherdess’, Myton St, Hull, Yorks., as victualler, and Trundle St as cm and u (1823). [D]
Hodson (or Hodgson), John, 51 Milton St, Liverpool, cm (1827–29). [D] See John Hodgson of Liverpool
Hodson, Richard & Corney, William, 4 Broad St, Carnaby Mkt, London, brokers and cm (1791). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 23 August 1791 for £1,800 on their household goods, house, workshop, and house at 14 Bentinck St. Policy included £1,250 on utensils, stock and goods in trust, and £150 on workshop. [GL, Sun MS ref. 587677]
Hodson, Robert, at ‘The Cabinet’, Frith St, Soho, London, cm (1712–24). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 25 March 1712 on his goods; and a Hand in Hand policy for £250 on his house on 11 July 1716. On 27 May 1719 insured goods and merchandise in his house with the Sun Co. A note added to this policy on 31 August 1723 stated that these had been removed to Mr Smith's, apothecary, a few doors away. Insured goods and merchandise for £1,000 on 9 November 1723 with the Sun Co. [GL, Sun MS vol. 2, p. 3; vol. 9, p. 271; vol. 16, ref. 30360; GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 16, p. 67] Appears to have been the predecessor of John Hodson who headed the firm of Hodson's in Frith St during the 18th century. In 1718 he supplied chairs and stools for the Duke of Montrose's London house in Bond St; and a bill for ‘10 Walnut chairs with Matted Seats’, costing £10, receipted in 1724, was probably also for the Duke of Montrose. [Scottish RO, GD 220/6/1192/38; 1250/30] On 19 June 1724 he provided ‘a Neat Mahogeny Tea Table’ at £1 15s to Temple Newsam House, Leeds. [Furn. Hist., 1967] Robert Hodson wrote to the Earl of Radnor in September 1725 concerning a ‘compting bureau’ supplied to Longford Castle. [V&A archives]
Hodson, Samuel, 11 Back Queen St, Manchester, gilder (1800). [D]
Hodson, Thomas, East Retford, Notts., chairmaker (1759). Will dated 2 June 1759. [Notts. RO, probate records]
Hodson, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1761). Admitted freeman on 29 November 1761. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hodson, William & Co., 18 Booth St, Tib Lane, Manchester, gilders and embossers (1813). [D]
Hodson & Rudyard, St Ann's, Soho, London, u (1748). Declared bankrupt in 1748. [Heal; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23] Possibly John or Robert Hodson of Frith St.
Hogarth, John, Corbridge, Northumb., joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Hogben, John, 19 Vine Ct, Spitalfields, London, cm (1820–24). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 5 November 1821 for £250 of which £230 accounted for stock and utensils; and on 1 January 1824 for £350, £205 on stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 487, ref. 985261; vol. 496, ref. 1012289]
Hogben, Robert, Canterbury, Kent, u (1705). [Canterbury freeemen rolls]
Hogg, —, address unrecorded, cm (1757). Named in the accounts for Felbrigg, Norfolk, on 17 May 1757 receiving 10s for glasses. [Norfolk RO, Felbrigg papers, WKC 6/454, index to payments]
Hogg, —, Brandons Row, Newington, London, bedstead maker (1820). [D]
Hogg, George, Skinnergate, Darlington, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827). [D]
Hogg, George, Middleham, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hogg, George, 11 Castle Lane, Pimlico, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hogg, James F., Sunderland, Co. Durham, cm (1798–1827). Recorded at High St, Bishop Wearmouth in 1827. [D]
Hogg, John, Howard St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, carver and gilder (1822). [D]
Hogg, John, St Stephen St, Norwich, carver and gilder (1830). [D; poll bk]
Hogg, John, Keswick, Cumb., cm and joiner (1834). [D]
Hogg, Robert, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hogg, Thomas, Sheep St, Skipton, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1837). [D]
Hogg, William, Newcastle, cm, joiner and carpenter (1778–82). Recorded at Castle Yd in 1778 and High Bridge in 1782. [D]
Hogg, William, 50 Close, Newcastle, u (1824–38). [D]
Hogg, William Johnson, Lowestoft, Suffolk and Bungay, Norfolk, cm (1818–30). Polled at Norwich of Lowestoft in 1818; and of there, named in the calendar of marriage licence bonds in 1819. Polled at Norwich of Bungay in 1830. [Suffolk RO, FAA: 50/2/118, p. 61]
Hogg & Co., Stephen St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, chairmakers (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hoggart, Barton John, Lancaster, cm (1789–90). Admitted freeman, 1789–90, when stated of Moorfields, London. [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hoggart, John, Lancaster, cm (1768–80). App. to J. Wright in 1768, and admitted freeman, 1779–80. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hoggat, William, Lancaster, cm (1806–07). Admitted freeman, 1806–07, when stated ‘of London’. [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Hogget, John, Tadcaster, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hoghton, James, London, cm (1742). Named in the Preston Guild record of burgesses in 1742 as brother of Thomas Hoghton of Preston, tinman.
Hoil, Thomas, Mint, Rye, Sussex, chairmaker and turner (1826–39). [D; Dover poll bks]
Hoit, William, 70 Oldham St, Manchester, cm (1819). [D]
Hoitwell, Samuel, 3 Barnet St, Hackney Rd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Holbart, Thomas, Berwick St, Westminster, London, u (1749). [Poll bk]
Holbeach, —, Bristol, u (1707). Notice in London Gazette, 27 November 1707 concerned a ‘Box of Writings’ which was to have been ‘left with Mr. Holbeach, an Upholsterer, upon the Bridge in Bristol’, and was delivered to ‘The Swan’ on Holborn Bridge, London, on 19 July, but is now missing. A reward was offered to the finder.
Holbird, Isaac, 13 Catherine St, Strand, London, u and cabinet manufacturer (1816–17). [D]
Holbird, James, 19 White Lion Row, Islington, London, u (1779). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1779 for £700, £190 accounting for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 279, p. 429]
Holbird (or Holberd), James, 16 Noble St, Cheapside, London, upholder, appraiser and undertaker (1789–1803). Notices regarding bankruptcy in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 17 October and 19 December 1796. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Holbird (or Holberd), M., 16 Noble St, Foster Lane, London, u (1802–23). [D]
Holbrook, George, 24 Trenchard St, Bristol, chairmaker and turner (1827–28). [D]
Holbrook, James, 4 Merchants Passage, Bath, Som., cm and u (1826). [D]
Holbrook, Richard, Bristol, cm (1774–81). Recorded at 35 Old Mkt in 1775. [D; poll bks]
Holbrook, William, Bristol, cm (1774–75). Recorded in St Mary's parish, Redcliffe, 1774, and 49 Redcliffe St in 1775. [D; poll bk]
Holbrow, Daniel, address unrecorded, upholder (1755–65). Son of Thomas Holbrow, Gent. of Bagspear, Glos. App. to Thomas Humphreys on 6 February 1755, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 4 March 1762. Took app. named Robert Brooke, 1764–65. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Holcroft, Richard, Salford, Lancs., cm (1808–17). Trading at Shaw Brows in 1808 and 32 Spinning Field in 1817. [D]
Holden, Andrew, Kent Rd, London, u and auctioneer (1809–11). [D]
Holden, Henry, Dearden Gate, Haslingden, Lancs., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Holden, James, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, cm (1832–40). Recorded as J. & James, 1832–39; James & Son in 1834; and alone, 1836–40. [D]
Holden, John, Millgate, Wigan, Lancs., cm and chairmaker (1818–34). [D]
Holden, John, Belgrave Gate, Leicester, u (1828). [D]
Holden, John, Liverpool, cm (1835–37). Trading at 7 Codrington St in 1835 and 32 Prescot St, 1837. [D]
Holden, Samuel, London, upholder, cm, undertaker, appraiser and auctioneer (1767–94). Addresses given at 9 Aldersgate St, 1775–81; Whitecross St in 1786; 37 Charles St, Westminster in 1792; and near the Horse Guards in 1794. Son of Robert Holden, freeman mercer of London. App. to Henry Hall on 28 September 1767, and Samuel Martin on 1 April 1772. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 5 October 1774. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1778 for £3,700 of which £2,000 accounted for utensils, stock and goods; and in 1779 with Josiah Phipp, for £2,000, £800 on utensils, stock and goods. Declared bankrupt with Josiah Phipps, Gents Mag., October 1781. Rococo trade card of Holden, 9 Aldersgate St is in the BM. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Sun MS vol. 264, p. 131; vol. 275, p. 142]
Holden, Stephen, North St, Lewes, Sussex, chairmaker and turner (1832–39). Recorded in North St, Greenwall, 1837, and Green Wall, 1839. [D; poll bk]
Holden, Thomas, at ‘The Sign of the Chair’, Hanover St, near Castle St, Long Acre, London, cm, appraiser and undertaker (c.1750). Trade card shows Rococo cartouche framing an elbow chair with compass seat, cabriole legs with scroll feet, back and front, and a tall shaped upholstered back. Card states that Holden ‘Makes & sells all sorts of Cabinet Makers Work in the newest and compleatest Manner at the most reasonable Rates: ALSO Buys & Sells Second hand Household Furniture of all Sorts.’ [Heal; C. Life, 7 July 1966, p. 48; Humberside RO, DDCC/150/114, Chichester Constable MS]
Holden, Thomas, Barnsley, Yorks., cm and joiner (1793). [D]
Holden, Thomas, 18 Highfield St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1794). [D]
Holden, Thomas, 13 Clayton St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1835– 39). [D]
Holden, Thomas Patrick, Liverpool, u (b.1815–1836). Son of Thomas Holden gunsmith; admitted freeman on 9 July 1836. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Holden, William, Upper Union St, Hull, Yorks., cm and u (1823). [D]
Holden, William, 13 George St, Halifax, Yorks., cm (1834–37). [D]
Holden (or Holder), Willoughby, Knutsford, Cheshire, u (1822–30). Trading at Silk Mill Yd in 1822. Death of his wife reported in Chester Courant and Anglo-Welsh Gazette, 12 October 1830. [D]
Holder, George, Union St, North Shields, Northumb., cm and u (1827). [D]
Holder, Nathan, 29 Trenchard St, Bristol, cabinet turner in general (1835–37). [D]
Holder, Samuel, St James's, Bristol, picture frame maker (1739–54). [Poll bk]
Holder, W., 29 Scale Lane, Hull, Yorks., carver and gilder (1840). [D]
Holder, William, St Giles, Oxford, cm (d.1766). Probate will granted on 30 May 1766. [Bodleian Lib., Oxford, index of wills]
Holder (or Holdon), William, Hull, Yorks., cm (1813–18). App. to George Spencely of Hull in June 1813, and assigned to Robert Waugh in November 1818. [Hull app. reg.]
Holdford (or Holdforth), Joseph, Leeds, Yorks., u (1782–1801). Trading in Kirkgate in 1798. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1782 for £600, £475 on utensils and stock; and on 16 August 1786 for £200 on household goods, and £300 on utensils and stock. On 17 January 1801 bought ‘a plot of land with Building abutting on the south of the Coloured Cloth Hall at a place called Green Hill’, from Samuel Smith of Leeds (who held a sixty-year lease on the property) for £840 ‘for the remainder of the term’. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 304, p. 346; vol. 338, p. 305; Leeds archives dept, DB 32/31]
Holding, Charles, Wigan, Lancs., chairmaker (1798–1822). Trading at Millgate, 1816–17, and Scholes, 1822. [D] See John Holding.
Holding, George, Scholes, near Wigan, Lancs., chairmaker (1828). [D]
Holding, Henry & Son, 32 Princess St, Manchester, carver and gilder (1836–40). [D] See Thomas Eccles.
Holding, J., 7 Grafton St, Soho, London, cm (1820). [D]
Holding, John, Millgate, Wigan, Lancs., chairmaker (1814–25). [D] See Charles Holding.
Holding, W., 5 Grays Buildings, Bath, Som., cm (1819). [D]
Holdsworth, Samuel, Hull, Yorks., cm (1784). (Poll bk]
Holdsworth (or Houldsworth), William, Liverpool, u (1809–34). Addresses given at 30 Mount Pleasant in 1816; South Myrtle St in 1818; 4 Vine St in 1827; and 18 South Myrtle St, 1834. Indenture dated 1809. Petitioned freedom on servitude to George Philander Lyon in 1818, paying 6s 8d. Admitted freeman on 15 June 1818. [D; Liverpool freemen's committee bk and reg.]
Hole, Amos, Park St, Frogmore St, Bristol, cm (1818–19). Trading as Hole & Norris in 1818. [D]
Hole, Amos, Ross-on-Wye, Herefs., cm (1822). [D]
Hole, John, Dunster, Som., cm, u and appraiser (1840). [D]
Holey, Thomas, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1834–56). Addresses given at 18A Call (or Castle) Lane, 1834; Lambert's Yd, Briggate, 1837, and no. 9 in 1839. [D]
Holford, —, address unrecorded, chairmaker (1739). On 9 August 1739 provided Earl Fitzwalter with ‘a Windsor Chair for 3 people’ costing £1, for Moulsham Hall. [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, p. 108]
Holford, J., 30 Mint St, Southwark, London, upholder and cm (1817). [D]
Holhead, John, Market Pl., Kendal, Westmld, cm (1808). [D]
Holiday, George, 15 Dooley St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, cm (1837). [D]
Holinshade, —, 15 Dooley St, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, cm (1837). [D]
Holinshade, —, King St, Drury Lane, London, cradle maker (1803). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers. Possibly William & Joseph Hollinshed.
Holl, Richard, 11–12 King St, Holborn, London, upholder and cm (1823–27). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 24 September 1823 for £3,500 of which £850 accounted for utensils and stock. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 498, refs 1008169–71]
Holl, Samuel, Bethel St, Norwich, cm (1839). [D]
Holladay, William, Canterbury, Kent, cm (1791). [Canterbury freemen rolls]
Holland, —, near Red Lion St, London, cm (1765). Marriage to Miss Alice Peck of Histon, Cambs., reported in Cambridge Chronicle, 26 January 1765. Possibly Philip Holland.
Holland, —, Frankfort St, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1812). [D]
Holland, —, Devonport, Devon, cm (1825). Death of infant son reported in The Alfred, 1 March 1825.
Holland, —, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1828). Notice in Exeter Flying Post, 21 February 1828 reads ‘A cocoa nut in a perfect state, was discovered on February 14, 1828, in a log of mahogany belonging to Mr. Holland, Cabinet Maker, Plymouth, by the sawyers who were emplyed in cutting it…’. Possibly John Holland of Plymouth.
Holland, Alice, Liverpool, upholsteress (1774–1803). Addresses given at 42 School Lane, 1774–77; no. 39 in 1790; and 1 Murray St in 1796. [D]
Holland, Charles, at ‘The Golden Key’, Drury Lane, London, upholder (1719). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 April 1719 for goods and merchandise in his house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 9, p. 181]
Holland, Charles, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, cm (1766). Taken as app. on 3 March 1766 for £26 10s. [PRO, IRI/24]
Holland, George, Chester, cm and timber dealer (1814–22). Trading at Northgate St, 1814–15; and Lower Bridge St, 1816–22, nos 45–46 in 1821. Admitted freeman on 26 October 1814. Advertised in Chester Guardian and Cambrian Intelligence, 15 February 1821, ‘that having declined keeping a sale shop in the Cabinet line he will in future attend to orders only and particularly to the Timber Trade which he means to extend. AND in consequence of the above arrangement the whole of his STOCK OF CABINET GOODS, which is considerable and manufactured of the best and finest mahogonies etc. will be SOLD BY AUCTION without the least reserve on the Premises, No. 45 and 46 Lower Bridge St. Chester on Thursday the 22nd February inst. By MR. S. NICKSON…’. [D; poll bks; Chester freemen rolls]
Holland, J., Old Town St, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1814). [D]
Holland, James, Hereford, upholder, cm and joiner (1761–77). Took app. named Smallman in 1761. Advertised in Pugh's Hereford Journal, 23 January 1777 refuting the report that ‘hath for some time past been propagated (and with seeming industry circulated)’ that he ‘intended soon to leave off and retire from the trade’. He announced that ‘he had no such intention’, and ‘intends to carry on his trade as usual…NB, He has now ready for sale variety of Mahogany chairs and other Cabinet Work of the newest fashion and best workmanship, and sundry other articles of Furniture in the Upholstery way, at the most reasonable rates.’ [S of G, app. index]
Holland, James, 31 Shudehill, Manchester, cm and broker (1813). [D]
Holland, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1750–57). Son of John Holland, weaver of Norwich; app. to Nicholas Pennington on 19 July 1750, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 8 September 1757. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Holland, John, Totnes, Devon, cm and u (1782–85). Taken as app. in 1782. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 22 January 1785 for £50 on household goods, and £150 on utensils and stock in his house and adjoining workshop. [D; app. indentures, Totnes Museum; GL, Sun MS vol. 237, p. 202]
Holland, John, Plymouth, Devon, u and cm (1822–38). Addresses given at Whimple St in 1822; no. 8, 1823–24; no. 32 in 1830; and 45 Union Pl. in 1838. [D] See Holland, —, of Plymouth.
Holland, John, London, u (1835–39). Addresses given at 75 Castle St, Oxford St in 1835; and 3 Summers Ct, Bishopsgate Within, 12 West St, Seven Dials and 16 Lower St, Islington in 1839. [D]
Holland, John & Sons, Humberstone Gate, Leicester, cm (1840). [D]
Holland, Joseph, Hereford, cm (1826–40). Trading at The Close in 1835 and in St Nicholas Sq., 1837–40. [D; poll bks]
Holland, Matthew, Chester, cm (1819–26). Recorded in Boughton in 1819, and Watergate St, Chester, in 1826. [Poll bks]
Holland, Matthias, Chester, cm (1793–1801). Son of Matthias Holland, painter; admitted freeman in March 1793. Took app. named James Roberts in 1797, assigned to William Faulkner in 1801 with three years left to serve. [Chester freemen rolls and app. bks]
Holland, Philip, 4 Chapel St, Red Lion Sq., London, cm (1779). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1779 for £500 of which £40 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 277, p. 144] Possibly Holland, —, near Red Lion St.
Holland, R., 1 Lower Union Ct, Lower Union St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). [D]
Holland, Robert, Ardleigh, near Colchester, Essex, chairmaker (1747). Supplied six kitchen chairs costing 9s to Peter Creffeild of Ardleigh in July 1747. [Essex RO, D/DRc F29]
Holland, Robert, West St, Poole, Dorset, cm and u (1840). [D]
Holland, Robert, Market Pl., Bridlington, Yorks., cm (1840). [D]
Holland, Samuel, London, joiner and cm (1768). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Richard Copeland in 1768, paying 6s 8d. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Holland, Thomas, address unrecorded. From June to October 1740 he made, cleaned, varnished and repaired frames for a total of £2 6s 2d for Sir R. Hoare at Barn Elms House. [V&A Lib., English Manuscripts, tradesmen's bills]
Holland, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1784–1812). App. to John Horocks in 1784. Petitioned freedom on servitude in 1812, but petition postponed. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Holland, Thomas, Market Pl., St Lawrence's parish, Reading, Berks., cm and u (1785–91). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 21 June 1785 with Higgs for £2,800, including £420 on house, shops and warehouses, all adjoining, and £990 on utensils and stock; and on 24 June 1791 for £1,000, all on utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 329, p. 480; vol. 377, p. 609] See Holland Thomas Higgs.
Holland, Thomas, Chepping Wycombe Borough, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798). [Militia Census]
Holland, Thomas, Tarporley, Cheshire, cm (1828). [D]
Holland, Thomas, 49 King St, Southwark, London, cm (1835– 39). [D]
Holland, William, Hull, Yorks., cm (1780–1810). Recorded in Wincolmlee, 1790–99, and Mill St, 1803–10. [D; poll bks]
Holland, William, Fore St Hill, Exeter, Devon, cm (1791–96). [D]
Holland, William, address unrecorded. App. to Edward Binns, cm, of St George's Hanover Sq., London, for £20, 1794– 1801. [PRO, IRI/36]
Holland, William, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Holland, Williamson, Whalley parish, Padiham, Lancs., joiner and cm (1825). [D]
Holland & Roberts, 6 Post Office Pl., Liverpool, cm (1837). [D]
Holland & Sons. Their Victorian activities are beyond the scope of this work (see Taprell & Holland for work to 1843) but the enquirer should consult the late Edward T. Joy's typescript on the firm. [V&A archives]
Hollandish, Andrew, 11 Bridewell Lane, Bristol, cm (1830). [D]
Hollandish, John, 7 Narrow Wine St, Bristol, coach and cabinet carver (1821). [D]
Hollands, Thomas, 2 Castle St, Clerkenwell, London, cm (1808). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 23 April 1808 for £300 of which £200 accounted for stock and utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 446, ref. 816325]
Hollaway, Richard, 34 King St, St Ann's, London, cm, milliner and haberdasher (1786). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 27 July 1786 for £200, £70 on utensils, stock and goods in trust. [GL, Sun MS vol. 339, p. 180]
Holleday, —, London, joiner or carver (1694). On 26 June 1694, as a member of the ‘Company of Joyners Carvers of London’, he signed a petition presented by that Company to the City of London. [Furn. Hist., 1974]
Holler, William, St John St, Lewes, Sussex, journeyman cm (1818). [Poll bk]
Holliday, Henry Spence, 73 Leather Lane, London, cm (1790). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 27 July 1790 for £500 of which £200 accounted for utensils and stock in workshop and yard. [GL, Sun MS p. 375, ref. 572209]
Holliday, Matthew, Easingwold, Yorks., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Holliday, Robert, Epsom, Surrey, cm (1838). [D]
Holliday, Thomas, High Wycombe, Bucks, chairmaker (1834–38). Daughters bapt. in 1834 and 1838, son in 1836. [PR (bapt.)]
Holliday, William, London, cm (1803–31). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. [Colchester poll bks]
Hollingberry, William, Canterbury, Kent, cm (1791). [Canterbury freemen rolls]
Hollingsworth, Francis, King's Ct, High St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). [D]
Hollingsworth, John, 9 Brokers Alley, Drury Lane, London, upholder and cm (1820–23). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 27 March 1823 for £400, of which £300 accounted for utensils and stock. [D; Sun MS vol. 498, ref. 1001928] Susannah Hollingsworth was trading as a furniture broker at 3 Brokers Alley, 1835–39. [D]
Hollingsworth, Samuel, 6 Bedford St, Bedford Row, London, cm and u (1813–27). Recorded also as S. & J. Hollingsworth, 1813–27. Took out a Sun Insurance policy alone on 30 July 1823 for £1,000, £900 on stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 496, ref. 1006454]
Hollingsworth, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1807–23). Addresses given at 81 Hanover St in 1807, with timber yd at 18 Mason St, 1807–11; 11 Williamson St, 1810–16; 2 Hood St, 1818; 4 and 16 Lime St in 1821; and nos 4, 3 and 16 in 1823. [D]
Hollingsworth, Thomas, 15 Robinson Row, Hull, Yorks., carver and gilder (1837–46). Trading as a ship and general carver in 1842, and ornamental carver in 1846. [D]
Hollingsworth, William, Hull, Yorks., carver, gilder, lookingglass manufacturer (1826–34). Trading at 2 Queen St, 1826– 31, and 27 Silver St in 1834. [D]
Hollingworth, James, Meltham, Huddersfield, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Hollingworth, John, Meltham, Huddersfield, Yorks., cm (1822–34). [D]
Hollingworth, William, Leicester, cm (1744). App. to Thomas Hand of Oakham, cm, and admitted freeman in 1744. [Leicester freemen rolls]
Hollingworth, William, address unrecorded. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754.
Hollingworth, William, Baxtergate, Gt Grimsby, Lincs., joiner cm and u (1819–35). [D]
Hollinrake, James, Hebden Bridge, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hollins, George, Stafford Row, Hanley, Staffs., chairmaker (1818–23). [D]
Hollins, George, York, carver and gilder (1821). Son of John Hollins, tailor; app. to William Fawcett Dodgson, carver and gilder on 7 July 1821. [York app. reg.]
Hollins, John, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., cm (1802–18). [D; poll bk]
Hollins, William, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hollinshed, Daniel, Chestergate, Macclesfield, Cheshire, cm (1816). [D]
Hollinshed, Thomas, corner of Gt Queen St, Drury Lane, London, turner (1755). Rococo trade card states that he ‘Makes & Sells all Sorts of Turnery Goods, in Mahogany, Wallnuttreee &c. Viz. Dumb Waiters, Claw Tables, fire Screens, Tea kettle Stands, Candle Stands, Shades & Screens, Trays & Tea Boards, in the newest fashion; also Mops, Brushes, Brooms, Baskets & Matts. NB. Turning Work done for Cabinet Makers, House & Bed Joyners, Ornaments for Carvers, Models for Chasers, Sculpt. &c. Temples, Vases, Flower Pots &c. for Shell Work.’ [Heal; C. Life, 2 May 1957, pp. 865–66]
Hollinshed (or Hollinshead), Thomas, 21 High St, St Giles, London, turner and cm (1804–08). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 1 September 1804 for £600 of which £150 accounted for utensils and stock, and £250 on goods in trust in workshop and open yards. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 431, ref. 764776]
Hollinshed (or Hollingshead), William & Joseph, King St, Seven Dials, London, bedstead makers and u (1808–39). Trading at no. 60, 1808–20, and no. 56, 1825–39. [D] Possibly Holinshade, —.
Hollin(s)worth, William, address unrecorded, u (1758–61). The 4th Duke of Bedford ordered ‘a neat French commode’ from William Hollinsworth for £16 16s in June 1758, probably for Woburn Abbey. In the following October he paid W. Hollin(s)worth & Co. £109 16s for the spectacular carved and gilt chandelier with eighteen branches which still hangs in the Saloon at Woburn. Another of the same design was sold Christie's, 29 November 1984, lot 43. [Bedford Office, London; Apollo, March 1956, p. 79, fig. XXIII; G. Scott Thomson, Family Background, 1949, p. 70]. Trade card of W. Hollingworth, u, 1761, recorded. [Heal]
Hollis, John, 101 Dale-end, Birmingham, cm (1822). [D]
Hollis, Robert, Fish St and Little London St, Whittlesey, Cambs., cm (1839). [D]
Hollister, John, Bristol, cm (1650– beyond 1696). Son of John Hollister, mason; app. to Thomas Fry, joiner, on 16 August 1650. Made a burgess of Bristol on 1 October 1657. He and his wife Edith took several apps, and appear in a rate assessment list for 1696. [Manchester City Art Gallery archives] A chest of drawers, c.1690, veneered in laburnum oyster wood at Wythenshawe Hall, Manchester, bears label which reads: ‘Bought of John Hollister, At the Stair in Horstreet In Bristol’. Similar chests of drawers are recorded, one of oyster laburnum, decorated with floral marquetry of various woods on a walnut ground, the sides with oval panels inlaid with grotesque masks in profile; inscribed in top drawer: ‘Bought of John Hollister in horsestreet ye Sine of ye Star in Bristoll’. [C. Life, 6 March 1975, supplement, p. 47] Another, or the same, veneered chest of drawers is recorded bearing the inscription: ‘Bought of John Hollister in Hogestreet at ye Sine of ye Star in Bristoll’. [V&A archives]
Holliwell, John, Shepton-Mallet, Som., cm (1798). [D]
Holliwell, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1806–35). Recorded at Warren Ct, Heath St and 2 Park Lane in 1816. Petitioned freedom on servitude to John Ward Turner in 1806. Admitted freeman on 16 June 1816. Took apps named Charles Heyland in 1819 and Thomas Moreton in 1822. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Holliwood, —, Fleet Ditch, near Black-Fryers, London, bedstead maker (1734). Named in newspapers in 1734. [Heal]
Holloway, —, address unrecorded, upholder (1779–83). Named in the Longford Castle, Wilts. accounts in 1779 receiving £80; in 1781, £20 2s; and in 1783, £7 7s 6d. [V&A archives] Possibly Richard Holloway of St Martin's Churchyard.
Holloway, —, Banbury, Oxon., cm and u (1834–39). Trading at Catherine Wheel Yd, 1834–37, and Calthorpe Lane, 1839. [D]
Holloway, Charles, Tamworth, Staffs., chairmaker and turner (1828–35). Addresses given at Lichfield St in 1828, Church St in 1834 and George St in 1835. [D]
Holloway, George, Christchurch, Hants., glazier and furniture maker (1823–24). [D]
Holloway, George, Castle St, Christchurch, Hants., u (1830). [D]
Holloway, J., Worcester St, Stourbridge, Worcs., cm (1820). [D]
Holloway, Jeremiah, 231 Whitechapel Rd, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Holloway, John, 101 Gt Saffron Hill, London, cm and u. Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Holloway, John William, Hart St, parish of St Olave, London, cm (1783). Took app. named William Smith in 1783. [Westminster Ref. Lib., MS E2566, p. 105, register of St Margaret and St John]
Holloway, John, North St, Wolverhampton, Staffs., carver and gilder (1827–38). [D]
Holloway, John, Bromsgrove, Worcs., cm (1820–31). Trading at Worcester St in 1820. [D; poll bk]
Holloway, John, Chester, u, cm and furniture broker (1838–40). Trading in Watergate St in 1838, when admitted freeman on 25 July. Recorded in 1840 as late of Cook St, previously of Watergate St Row, when declared bankrupt, Chester Chronicle, Cheshire and North Wales Chronicle, 12 April. [Chester freemen rolls]
Holloway, Richard, Oxford, u (1761–84). Recorded in High St in 1766. Took app. named Smith in 1761. [D; poll bk; S of G, app. index] Made regular announcements in Jackson's Oxford Journal between 1763 and 1780. Election as bailiff reported on 19 September 1763. On 17 November 1764 announced that he had decided to remain in Oxford rather than go to a shop in London, where he served his apprenticeship. Notice of 20 February 1766 read that William Smith, app., had run away from Holloway, and was suspected of thefts. Holloway advertised a large number of sales between 1766 and 1780. A notice from him of 20 October 1770 denied a charge of embezzling land tax collected for 1765, declared in an anonymous paper on St Mary's Church door; the Vestry testified in his favour. On 17 February 1773 he advertised sale of 30–40 tons of lead; and on 10 March 1775 offered a reward for the return of two spoons missing from the Judges’ Lodgings. Election as City Assistant, replacing Ralph Kirby who resigned, announced on 6 November 1775; and election and swearing-in as Mayor on 15 September and 30 September 1777. Acted as agent in bankruptcy case reported on 25 April 1778.
Holloway, Richard, St Martin's Church Yard, London, ‘Cabinet & Chair Maker, Upholder &c. Funerals Furnished’ (1777). Rococo trade card reads as above, and shows Chippendalestyle chair and bureau bookcase. [Banks Coll., BM] Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £400, of which £300 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 261, p. 433] See Robert Holloway, and Holloway, —.
Holloway, Richard, 34 Rathbone Pl., London, u and undertaker (1800–08). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D]
Holloway, Robert, Church-yard, St Martin's Lane, London, cm (1784). [D] See Richard Holloway.
Holloway, Thomas, address unrecorded, u (1712). Took app. on 9 October 1712. [PRO, app. reg.]
Holloway, William, Christchurch, Hants., turner and chairmaker (1747–93). In 1747 took app. named Ayles, possibly Benjamin Ayles, to whom he was appointed Guardian in 1749 for the administration of the estate of James Ayles. Took app. named Gutheridge in 1753. [S of G, app. index and Winchester Guardianships] Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1778 for £200, utensils and stock accounting for £34. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 264, p. 586]
Holloway, William, Market Harborough, Leics., cm (1822–28). Recorded at Sheep Mkt in 1828. [D]
Hollowell, Mrs, Church Lane, Banbury, Oxon., cm, u and joiner (1833–37). [D]
Hollowell, Charles, Church Lane, Banbury, Oxon., cm, u and joiner (1830–32). [D]
Holly, T., 3 Sheffield St, London, carver and gilder (1820). [D]
Hollyday, Mary, address unrecorded, upholder (1716). Daughter of John Cooper; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 5 December 1716 ‘by her father's copy’. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hollyer, Matilda, 31 Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, Tunbridge-ware manufacturer (1835). [D]
Hollyoak, Roach, 55 Weamon St, Birmingham, u (1830). [D]
Holman, —, 10 Bartholomew Sq., London, cm (1835). [D] See Nathaniel and William Holman.
Holman, Edward, Cranbrook, Kent, cm (1826–29). [D]
Holman, James, formerly of the parish of SS Philip and Jacob, Bristol, late of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London, joiner and cm (1757). Declared a ‘Fugitive for Debt’ in London Gazette, 14–17 June 1757.
Holman, James, 97 Broadwall, Blackfriars Rd, London, u (1839). [D]
Holman, John, Merchant St, Bristol, cm (1795). [D]
Holman, John, Magdalen St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1835). Son Robert bapt. at Holy Trinity Church on 12 July 1835. [PR (bapt.)]
Holman, Nathaniel, 13 Bartholomew Sq., London, cm and u (1839). [D] See Holman, —.
Holman, William, London, carpenter, cm and u (1808–39). Addresses given at 1 Brick Lane, Old St in 1808; 23 Ironmonger(s) Row, Old St in 1822; no. 93, 1827–28; and 12 Bartholomew Sq. in 1839. Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 25 February 1822 for £300, of which stock and utensils accounted for £200. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 491, ref. 989493] See Holman, —.
Holme, Henry, Lancaster, cm (d.1791). Death on 1 September 1791 reported in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 5 September.
Holme(s), James, Liverpool, cm (1760–61). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Thomas Rigby in 1760, and admitted freeman on 29 November 1761. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk and reg.]
Holme(s), James, Turk's Head Ct, Preston, Lancs., joiner and cm (1814–18). [D]
Holme(s), John, Turk's Head Ct, Preston, Lancs., joiner and cm (1816). [D]
Holme(s), Robert, Lancaster, cm (1823–32). App. to L. Redmayne in 1823, and admitted freeman, 1830–31. Named in the Gillow records in 1826 and 1832. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls; Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow]
Holme, Thomas, Lancaster, cm (1767–68). [Lancaster freemen rolls]
Holmes, —, address unrecorded, chairmaker (1789). Recorded in the account book of Sir George Cornewall of Moccas Court, near Hereford, and Stanhope St, London, on 13 May 1789 receiving £6 11s 6d. [Herefs. RO, Moccas papers, J56/ IV/4]
Holmes, —, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Holmes, Alexander, 15 Brokers Row, Moorfields, London, cm, broker, appraiser and undertaker (1790–1811). Trade card gives address at ‘The Unicorn’, 15 Brokers Row. Recorded at 15 Moorfields, 1809–11. [D; BM]
Holmes, Charles, 15 Blackfriargate, Hull, Yorks., cm and u (1814–26). [D] See Joseph Holmes.
Holmes, Edward, Nottingham, cm (d.1806). Probate will dated 3 May 1806. [Notts. RO, probate records]
Holmes, George & Griffin, William Morley, Whitcomb St, Leicester Fields, London, sedan chairmakers (1778–99). Recorded also at Coventry St, St James's, 1780–88, so presumably their business was at the corner of Coventry St and Whitcomb St. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1780 for £300 on utensils and stock; in 1782 for £1,400, £1,000 on utensils and stock; in 1784 for £400 on premises at 22 Warwick St, Golden Sq.; and on 5 July 1791 for £900 on utensils, stock and goods in trust in their house. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 286, p. 532; vol. 301, p. 638; vol. 324, p. 621; ref. 586102] A bill in the Monson archives, dated 24 July 1777 is for making sedan chairs costing £130 13s. [Lincoln RO, Mon/II/9] In 1784 Holmes & Griffin submitted a bill to Alexander Wedderburn for £28. 8s. [Scottish RO, GD 164/ 120 Box/A7/2 and B] On 21 March 1786 the firm was paid £1 10s 6d by Baron Grey de Wilton (formerly Sir Thomas Egerton, Bart., later 1st Earl of Wilton) for items supplied to Heaton Hall, Manchester. [Preston RO, Bank deposit and account bks, DDEg] Holmes & Griffin, chairmakers, are named in the Royal Household accounts on 5 April 1788 receiving £7 8s; and on 5 April 1794, £17 11s 6d. [Windsor Royal Archives] See W. & T. Griffin.
Holmes, George, Rosemary Lane, Fisher St, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1811). [D]
Holmes, George, Long Causeway, Peterborough, Northants., carver and gilder (1822–23). [D]
Holmes, Henry, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1805–34. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Holmes, Henry, Corn St, Leominster, Herefs., cm (1840). [D]
Holmes, J. H., 13 Fish St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1828–29). [D]
Holmes, James, St George Colgate, Norwich, cm (1761–80). [Poll bks]
Holmes, James, Uppingham, Leics., cm (1791–98). [D]
Holmes, James, Bridge St, Belper, Derbs., joiner and cm (1835). [D]
Holmes, James Biggs, 43 Basinghall St, London, portable desk, dressing case, work box and cabinet case maker (1839). [D]
Holmes, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1727–38). Son of John Holmes, carpenter of Southwark, London. App. to Isaac Cooke on 3 May 1727, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 May 1738. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Holmes, John, London, upholder (1752). Notice in Gents Mag., June 1752, reads: ‘The Lord Mayor nominated for sheriffs… John Holmes, upholder…He paid a fine to avoid duty’.
Holmes, John, late of Wood St, St Alphege, London, cm (1761). Discharge from Debtors’ Prison reported in London Gazette, 25 August 1761.
Holmes, John, Aldersgate St, London, freeman clothworker, cm (1773). Employed one non-freeman for six weeks in 1773. [GL, City Licence bks, vol. 8]
Holmes, John, 2 Red Cross Sq., Jewen St, London, carver (1775). Insured house for £100 in 1775. [GL, Sun MS vol. 243, p. 202]
Holmes, John jnr, 4 London Rd, St George's Fields, London, carver and gilder (1803). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 2 February 1803 for £150. [GL, Sun MS vol. 426, ref. 745411]
Holmes, John, London, carver and gilder, looking-glass and frame maker (1808–23). Addresses given at 16 George's Ct, Clerkenwell in 1808, and 57 Red Lion St, Clerkenwell, 1809–23. [D]
Holmes, John, 10 Bridge Rd, Lambeth, London, looking-glass and frame maker (1820) and u (1823–29). [D]
Holmes, John, Norwich, cm (1818). App. to William Norris; admitted freeman on 24 February 1818. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Holmes, John, 2 Commercial St, Leeds, Yorks., floor cloth warehouseman and cm (1826). [D]
Holmes, John, Sidmouth, Devon, cm (b. 1803–d.1826). Notice in Exeter Flying Post, 30 March 1826, read: ‘An inquest was held yesterday, at the Yorkminster Arms, Foley-street, Mary la bonne, on the body of John Holmes, aged 23, who shot himself. The deceased was a cabinet-maker, and resided in Ogle Mews. He was a native of Sidmouth, in Devon, where he became enamoured of a dairy-maid, who however did not return his love, but preferred the society of a more favoured swain. The deceased provided himself with a pistol and challenged his rival, who declined the invitation. Finding all attempts to gain the fair one ineffectual, came to London, and brooding over his misfortunes, he became phrenzied, and shot himself. The jury returned a verdict of Insanity.’
Holmes, Jonathan, Gt Pulteney St, London, carver (1784). [Poll bk]
Holmes, Joseph, Jon & Robert, London, u (1722–23). Trading at ‘The Bell Inn’, Aldersgate, in 1722, when they insured goods and merchandise in warehouse there for £500 on 17 January. A memo of 17 December 1723 adds that they removed to a warehouse opposite the gate in the ‘Spread Eagle Inn’, Gracechurch St. [GL, Sun MS vol. 15, ref. 27417]
Holmes, Joseph, Graham Pl., Fontenoy St, and 96 Fontenoy St, Liverpool, cm (1804–12). App. to Edward Lowe in 1804. Admitted freeman on 5 October 1812. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Holmes, Joseph, Wokingham, Berks., cm (1823). [D]
Holmes, Joseph, Hull, Yorks., cm, u and furniture broker (1823–34). Addresses given at 32 Blackfriargate in 1823; no. 15, 1826–31; and 21 Humber Dock St in 1834. [D] See Charles Holmes.
Holmes, Mathew, Hinckley, Leics., cm (1791). [D]
Holmes, Norman, York, carver and gilder (1821). Son of William Holmes of Christ parish, carver and gilder; app. to his father on 16 August 1821. [York app. reg.]
Holmes, Richard, Barbican, London, freeman carpenter, cm, looking-glass manufacturer and glass grinder (1755–86). Recorded at no. 55, 1777–78; no. 22, 1778–86; and as Richard Holmes & Son, 1781–86. Rococo trade card, c.1781, shows Chippendale-style chair, tea table with deep fretwork rims, and tea chest, and reads: ‘Rich.d Holmes, Cabinet Maker & Glass Grinder at the Tea Chest in Barbican, LONDON. Makes all Sorts of Looking Glasses in Carved and Mahogany Frames. Likewise all Sorts of Cutt Trays, Scollop & Round Tea Boards. Tea Chests for Exportation. NB. Old Glasses New Framed & Silvered.’ In 1755 he employed one non-freeman for three months; in 1771, seven for twelve weeks; and in 1780, fifteen for six weeks. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1778 for £1,800, of which £800 accounted for utensils and stock; and in 1781 for £2,800, £1,500 on utensils and stock. [D; Heal; C. Life, 9 December 1971, p. 1666, 2 May 1983, pp. 865–66, and vol. CXXX, no. 3350, p. 91; GL, City Licence bks, vols 1, 7 and 10; GL, Sun MS vol. 266, p. 101; vol. 294, p. 61] See Thomas Holmes of Barbican.
Holmes, Richard, Ingleton, near Settle, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Holmes, Robert, Clement's Lane, London, u (1742–45). Trading as Robert & Co. in 1742. [D] See Holmes, Wheatley & Holmes.
Holmes, Rob., Nottingham. Signed the Nottingham Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, on behalf of the masters.
Holmes, Robert, Gomersal, Yorks., cm and joiner (1828–37). [D]
Holmes, Robert, 2 Broad St, Pendleton, Lancs., cm and u (1836–40). [D]
Holmes, Robert, 8 Margaret St, Hackney Fields, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Holmes, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1762). Petitioned freedom on servitude to Nicholas Cross, who appeared in person to certify servitude, in 1762. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Holmes, Thomas, address unrecorded, cm and glass grinder (1786). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 July 1786 for £1,500, £100 on utensils and stock; £500 on those in silvering rooms and workshop; and £100 on glass in trust therein. [GL, Sun MS vol. 339, p. 53] Possibly:
Holmes, Thomas, 22 Barbican, London, cabinet and lookingglass manufacturer (1786). [D] See Richard Holmes of Barbican.
Holmes, Thomas, Northampton St, Clerkenwell, London, cm (1796). Notices regarding bankruptcy appeared in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 12 September and 28 November 1796.
Holmes, Thomas, High St, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., cm and u (1818–34). [D]
Holmes, Thomas, Northampton St, Leicester, chairmaker (1835). [D]
Holmes, Thomas, 111 Gt Titchfield St, London, u and cm (1835–37). [D]
Holmes, Thomas, 112 London Rd, St George's East, London, u, cm and undertaker (1835–39). [D]
Holmes, W., Tonbridge, Kent, u (1826–30). [D]
Holmes, William, Liverpool, cm (1800–39). Addresses given at 21 Mersey St, 1800–03; no. 22 with shop at no. 32 in 1805; 60 Hurst St in 1807; 32 Gilbert St in 1823; and 1 Spencer Buildings, Hunter St, 1829–39. [D]
Holmes, William, York, carver and gilder (1806–23). Recorded in Christ parish in 1821; and Hay Market in 1823. Son of Joseph Holmes, baker; admitted freeman in 1806. Took his son William as app. on 16 August 1821. [D; York app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Holmes, William, Morrow & Parry, William, 194 Oxford St, London, u, cm, auctioneers and appraisers (1814–21). Holmes & Parry alone took out Sun Insurance policies on 22 November 1820 for £1,500 on their house and workshops; and on 22 February 1821 for £1,000, £500 on house and workshops, £500 on stock and utensils therein. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 483, ref. 972908; vol. 488, ref. 976498]
Holmes, William, 21 Duke St, Bloomsbury, London, cm and u (1821). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 7 May 1821 for £1,500, of which £500 accounted for stock and utensils. [GL, Sun MS vol. 488, ref. 980751]
Holmes, William, 48 Albemarle St, Piccadilly, London, cm and u (1821–29). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 1 November 1821 for £1,500, £500 accounting for stock and utensils. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 488, ref. 985157]
Holmes, William, 69 Church St, Whitehaven, Cumb., cm (1829). [D]
Holmes, William, 21 Camelford St, Brighton, Sussex, carver and gilder (1832–40). [D]
Holmes, William, 12 St John's St, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1834–57). Recorded sometimes also at nos 6 and 11. [D]
Holmes & Guichenet(t), Threadneedle St, London, upholders (1742–55). [D]
Holmes, Wheatley & Holmes, Clement's Lane, London, u (1753–55). [D] See Robert Holmes at this address.
Holroyd, John, Honley, near Huddersfield, Yorks., cm (1830–37). [D]
Holroyd, John, Holme, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1837). [D]
Holroyd, Squire, Goodman's End, Bradford, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Holroyd, Tym, Hull, Yorks., cm (1753). Took app. named Travis in 1753. [S of G, app. index]
Holsgrove, George, Cambridge St, Golden Sq., London, upholder (1790–93). [D]
Holson, Joseph, West Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798–1830). Named in the Militia Census in 1798, and directories in 1830.
Holston, William, 294–95 High Holborn, London, cm and u (1840). [GL, Sun MS ref. 1333645]
Holt, Edward, Berry St, Liverpool, cm etc. (1827–39). Addresses given at no. 24 in 1827, no. 28, 1827–29, no. 41, 1835–37, and no. 29 in 1839. [D]
Holt, George, North St, Guildford, Surrey, cm (1831–37). [Poll bks]
Holt, James, Langfield, Todmorden, Yorks., cm (1822–37). Trading at York St in 1837. [D]
Holt, James, Blackburn, Lancs., cm, joiner and house-builder (1824–34). Trading at Redlam Brow, 1824–28, and Witton, near Blackburn, in 1834. [D]
Holt, John, High St, Lewes, Sussex, turner and chairmaker (1794–1839). Recorded at no. 16, 1795–1832, and no. 17 in 1839. [D; poll bks]
Holt, Rachel, 34 Ben Jonson St, Liverpool, u (1824). [D]
Holt, Richard, 30 Berwick St, Soho, London, cm (1826–28). [D]
Holt, Richard, 12 King St, High Holborn, London, cm and upholder (1827–28). [D]
Holt, William, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Holt, William, 70 Oldham St, Manchester, cm (1808–18). [D]
Holt & Morris, Liverpool, u etc. (1834–39). Trading at 2 Webster St, Everton, 1834–37, and 2 Bute St, Fox St in 1839. [D]
Holworthy, —, 3 Onslow St, Hatton Gdn, London, cm and u (c.1800). Trade card framed by Neo-classical drapery swags centring on an urn shows Sheraton-style writing or artist's desk, and bookcase. Card gives address and reads: ‘Estm.d Holworthy, UPHOLSTERER, Cabinet Chair Maker and Undertaker…BEDSTEAD MANUFACTORY, NB. variety of Paper Hangings.’ [BM]
Holyoak & Dixon, 158 Fenchurch St, London, turners (1799). [D]
Holyoake(s), William, Cirencester, Glos., carver and gilder (1820–40). Trading at Gosditch St, 1820–22 and Castle St, 1839–40. [D]
Homan, John, 136 Fenchurch St, London, u (1813). [D]
Homer, Benjamin, Wednesfield, Staffs., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Homer, Benjmain, Willenhall, Staffs., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Homer, Thomas, address unrecorded. George I pier glass recorded, in carved wood and gesso frame with foliate mouldings; arched cresting carved with eagles’ heads centred by winged cherubs’ heads and overlapping foliage; the back inscribed in ink: ‘The Maker Thomas Homer’. [Sotheby's, 9 March 1951, lot 143]
Homer, William, Weaman St, Birmingham, gilder (1818). [D]
Homer, William, St Peter's, Norwich, cm and u (1822). [D]
Homersham, Thomas, Southwark, London, upholder and cm (1781–1816). Addresses given at 238 St Margaret's Hill in 1781; 238 Borough High St, 1784–96; and no. 245, 1786– 1816. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 22 March 1786 for £500 of which utensils and stock accounted for £250; on 23 April 1807 for £800 on his house where no cabinet work or carpentry was done; and on 2 April 1818 for £1,000 on his house. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 337, p. 9; vol. 438, ref. 802367; vol. 449, ref. 841782]
Hone, John, Leather Lane, Holborn, London, cm (1775). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1775 for £1,000 of which utensils and stock accounted for £800. [GL, Sun MS vol. 242, p. 319]
Hones, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1780). Former app., William Rea petitioned freedom in 1780. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Honey, —, 6 Golden Lion Ct, Aldersgate St, London, cm (1829). [D]
Honey, H. & W., Plymouth, Devon, cm (1814). Dissolving of partnership announced in Western Luminary, 22 February 1814. H. Honey recorded alone at Frankfort St in 1814. [D]
Honey, R., Frankfort St, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1814). [D]
Honeycroft, —, Brown St, Salisbury, Wilts., chairmaker (1839). [D]
Honeywell, John, Fordingbridge, Hants., chairmaker (1792–1824). [D]
Honeywell, John, The Quay, Weymouth, Dorset, chairmaker (1840). [D]
Honeywell, Richard, Downton, Wilts., chairmaker (1742–76). Took app. named Jacob Taunton, 1742–43. Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1776 for £100, £80 accounting for stock. [Wilts. Apps and their Masters; GL, Sun MS vol. 249, ref. 369454]
Honiss, William & Edward, York House Hastings, and 43 Marina, St Leonards, Sussex, cm, u, painters and glaziers (1831–40). Trading as plumbers and auctioneers at Priory and 43 Marina St in 1832. Trading only in St Leonards in 1833 and 1840. Honais, plumber and painter, traded in Hastings in 1833. [D]
Honiss, William Henry, York St (or Buildings), Hastings, and 43 Marina, St Leonards, Sussex, u (1837–39). Advertised in Sussex Agricultural Express, 10 June 1837, offering thanks for fifteen years of liberal patronage, and stating that he has ‘an extensive assortment of Furniture which he is enabled to offer at very low prices, for ready money consisting of loo, dining, Pembroke and other tables; chiffonirs, sideboards, elegant mahogany and other chairs, wardrobes, chests of drawers, mahogany, stained and painted bedsteads, beds, matresses, wash-hand-stands, dressing tables, chimney, pier, and swing glasses, floor cloths, painted baizes &c.’ He also offered invalid furniture for hire or purchase to visitors; wallpaper fitting service; and hire of furniture, plate and cutlery. He also offered his services as auctioneer, appraiser, house and estate agent; and gave his address at York House, Priory, Hastings. Advertised sale of ‘Patent Imperial Cottage Piano Forte’ in Sussex Agricultural Express, 23 September 1837; and an auction on 31 March 1838. [D]
Honor, George, Brueton's Walk, Birmingham, chairmaker and cm (1835). [D]
Honshaw, Samuel, Noel St, London, chairmaker (1784). [Poll bk]
Honton, James, New Market Pl., Bradford, Yorks., cm and u (1834). [D]
Hood, David, 4 Crescent St, London, painter and gilder (1808). [D]
Hood, James, Tweedmouth, Northumb., joiner and cm (1834). [D]
Hood, John, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, Salop, chairmaker (1747). [Poll bk]
Hood, Robert, Southwark, London, then Tower Hill, and died at Enfield, cm and naval carpenter (b.1696–d.1795). Member of the Livery of the Joiners’ Co. in 1750. Report of his death in Gents Mag., February 1795 stated that he was born on 15 August 1696 at Lower Deeping, Lincs., and ‘made the wooden model for Westminster Bridge, and fitted-up, at considerable expence, Lord Rodney's first cabin; and then retired’. [GL, Joiners’ Co. records, list of Liverymen]
Hood, Thomas, address unrecorded, upholder (1705–15). Son of Thomas Hood, freeman joiner of London; app. to Samuel Halford, in trust for R. Farmer, clothworker, on 9 January 1705/06. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 9 March 1714/15. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hood, Thomas, Bristol, cm (1774). [Poll bk]
Hood, Thomas Frederick, Islington, London, carver and gilder (1818–26). Admitted freeman of Hereford in 1818, and polled there in 1826. [Hereford freemen rolls] Possibly:
Hood, Thomas, 27 Meredith St, Clerkenwell, London, carver and gilder (1835–39). [D]
Hook, John, Newham, Glos., cm (1839). [D]
Hook, Richard, St Martin's Lane, Lewes, Sussex, journeyman cm (1818). [Poll bk]
Hook, William, Windmill Hill, Hampstead, London, cm (1809–11). [D]
Hooker, John, Greenwich, London, cm and u (1824–38). Trading at Blackheath Hill, 1824–26 and Greenwich Rd in 1838. [D]
Hooker, Robert, Chester, cm (1757). App. to Philip Presbury on 18 April 1757. [Chester app. bks]
Hookey (or Hockey), George Goldfwyre/er, Southampton, Hants., carver (1774–81). [Bristol and Southampton poll bks]
Hookey, George, High St, Southampton, Hants., upholder and auctioneer (1805–11). [D; Southampton reg.]
Hooks, Robert, Thornton, Norfolk, cm (1836). [D]
Hoole, John, London, u (1690–1710). Announced in London Gazette, 1 May 1690, that he had ‘removed from the Rose in Cornhill, to the Rose in Bishopsgate Street near Cornhill; who hath new fashioned Silk and Stuff Beds ready standing Glasses, Tables and Chests of Drawers, to be sold at reasonable Prices.’ Advertised in Athenian Mercury, 18 March 1693; and a notice in Daily Courant, 17 October 1709 read: ‘John Hoole, Upholsterer, at the Rose in Bishopsgate-street over against Thread-needle-street, leaving off his Trade, selleth his Goods very cheap: The House and Shop to be Lett, having 4 Rooms and Closets on a Floor.’ [Heal; Hilton Price, Signs of Old London; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23]
Hooper, —, Sittingbourne, Kent, cm (1803). [D]
Hooper, —, 19 Upper Boro’ Walls, Bath, Som., u (1815). [D]
Hooper, Ann, ‘The Blue Boar’, Cornhill, London, cm (1744). See John Hooper.
Hooper, Frederick William, Leamington, Warks., carver and gilder, looking-glass and picture frame manufacturer (1831–37). Recorded at Leamington Priors, 1831–34, and 47 Bath St, 1835–37. Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 24 June 1831, and Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales, 8 July 1834. Carried out work for Charlecote Park, Warks., in 1833, receiving a total of £40, including £22 10s for carving and gilding a cheval glass. [D; Warwick RO, L6/ 1118] See M. Hooper.
Hooper, George, corner of Love Lane, Ramsgate, Kent, u and cm (1762–86). Took app. named Taylor in 1762. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1780 for £800, £400 accounting for utensils and stock; and in 1786 for £200 on two houses. [S of G, app. index; GL, Sun MS vol. 280, p. 331; vol 337, p. 276]
Hooper, H., Bristol, upholsteress (1824–39). Addresses given at 11 St Paul St, 1824–27; 32 Milk St in 1834; and 17 Newfoundland St, 1835–39. [D]
Hooper, Henry, Frome, Som., cm (1817–22). Declared bankrupt, Exeter Flying Post, 12 June 1817, but trading again by 1822 as cm and u at North Parade. [D]
Hooper, John, Honiton, Devon, cm (1730). Took app. named Lowman in 1730. [S of G, app. index]
Ho(o)per, John, at ‘The Blue Boar’, Cornhill, London, cm (1730–44). After his death in 1744 the business was carried on by his widow, Ann Hooper. [Hilton Price, Signs of Old London] See John Hoper.
Hooper, M., Bath St, Leamington, Warks., carver and gilder (1830). [D] See Frederick William Hooper.
Hooper, Richard, High St, Tewkesbury, Glos., cm (1814–32). Six children bapt. between 1814–32. [PR (bapt.)]
Hooper, Thomas, 146 Blackfriars Rd, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hooper, William, Bristol, cm and undertaker (1836–39). Addresses given at 1 Sim's Alley, 1836–37; St James's Back in 1838; and 20 Canon St in 1839. [D]
Hooth, John, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, u (1778). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1778 for £300, £250 accounting for stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 266, p. 455]
Hooton, John, Gainsborough, Lincs., cm and furniture broker (1826–35). Trading in Church Lane, 1826, and Beastmarket, 1831–35. [D]
Hootton, Charles, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1824–31). Son bapt. in 1824, daughter in 1831. [PR (bapt.)]
Hop, John, address unrecorded. Signed and dated, 1721, a side table japanned in vermillion and yellow. [Conn., July 1970, advert., J. Kingel, Paris]
Hope, Edward, 88 and 89 North St, Leeds, Yorks., chairmaker, carver and gilder (1828–35). Trade label recorded on looking-glass in simple rectangular frame with split-baluster moulding, topped by a plain architrave. Label reads: ‘Edward Hope Carver & Gilder Wholesale & Retail Looking Glass Manufacturer 88 & 89 North Street, Leeds. The trade supplied with leaf Gold.’ [D; Bonham's Sale Room, London, 17 January 1985] See Hope & Foster.
Hope, Frances, 88 North St, Leeds, Yorks., carver and gilder (1837). [D] See Hope & Foster.
Hope, John, Bristol, cm (1778). [Bailey's list of bankrupts]
Hope, John, Dalton, Lancs., cm (1797–98). [D]
Hope, John, 24 Howell Croft, Bolton, Lancs., cm (1818). [D]
Hope, Robert, London Rd, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1824–27). Trading at no. 49 in 1824 and no. 84 in 1827. [D]
Hope, Samuel, Paradise Row, Birmingham, cm (1767). [D]
Hope, Samuel, 26 North St, Dale St, Liverpool, chairmaker (1796). [D]
Hope, William, 15 Fenchurch St, London upholder (1768). [D]
Hope, William, 36 Rathbone Pl., Oxford St, London, auctioneer, u, cm and ‘Licensed & Sworn Appraiser’ (1805– 39). Trade card shows classical female figure beside inscribed pedestal. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 25 May 1820 and 20 September 1821 for £2,000, of which stock, uttensils and goods in trust and workshops accounted for £1,700. Named in contemporary newspapers. [D; Heal; GL, Sun MS vol. 483, ref. 966989; vol. 488, ref. 983081]
Hope & Foster, Leeds, Yorks., carvers, gilders, looking-glass and picture frame manufacturers (1816–22). Trading at 2 North Parade, 1816–1822, and North Town End in 1818. Advertised in Leeds Mercury, 6 and 13 April 1816 that they intended ‘Carrying on the above Business in all its Branches, and from their experience of the same having always been at the first shop in London…’. Advertised again in Leeds Intelligencer, 10 February 1817, and in the four consecutive issues; and in Leeds Mercury, 15 February 1817, and the five consecutive issues, returning thanks ‘for the very liberal Encouragement they have experienced…they trust by their unlimited exertions to produce a Superiority of Workmanship at the lowest charges…they now polish and silver old Plates without sending them to London…’. Announced in Leeds Mercury, no. 2761, that ‘Mr. Hope has just returned from London, where he has made large purchases from the first Houses of every Article in the Fancy line … NB. The Trade supplied with leaf gold of superior quality at reduced prices.’ The firm seems very quickly to have become mainly purveyors of goods from London. [D] Probably Edward or Frances Hope.
Hoper, John, address unrecorded, cm (1721–22). Submitted a bill to ‘Mad.m Heathcoat’ on 22 July 1721 for £3 10s for ‘a Neat Wallnt Chest’, a leather cover and a mat. Receipted on 6 January 1721/22. [Lincoln RO, 2 ANC 12/D)11]
Hopewell, George, Hucknall-Torkard, Notts., chairmaker (1784). [BM, trade card coll.]
Hopewell, John, Cherry Orchard, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1799–d.1812). Will dated 21 January 1802, proved, 26 August 1812. [D; Notts. RO, probate records]
Hopkin, William, Vale St, Birmingham, cm (1777). Insured his house for £100 in 1777. [GL, Sun MS vol. 263, p. 59]
Hopkins, David, Hart St, Westminster, London, cm (1749–54). Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [Poll bk]
Hopkins, David, Westbury on Trym, Glos., cm (1774–84). [Bristol poll bks]
Hopkins, E., Staines, Middlx, cm (1798). [D]
Hopkins, Edward & Richard, 46 Goodge St, Tottenham Ct Rd, London, chair and sofa maker (1820–28). [D]
Hopkins, Henry, Rotherhithe, London, carver and ship carver (1780–1819). Addresses given at Prince's Stairs, 1780–81 and 1819; 45 Rotherhithe in 1788; and 61 Paradise St in 1801. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1780 for £400, utensils and stock accounting for £50; and in 1781 for £400 on his house. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 285, p. 552; vol. 296, p. 80]
Hopkins, J., 10 Bedford St, Bath, Som., cm (1819–26). [D]
Hopkins, James, 15 Prince's St, Bedford Row, London, u (1826–27). [D]
Hopkins, James, 4 Southampton Row, Russell Sq., Bloomsbury, London, u (1829–40). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1840. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 577, ref. 1333797]
Hopkins, John, 22 Peter St, Cow Cross, London, cm (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £200 of which utensils and stock accounted for £100. [GL, Sun MS vol. 258, p. 83] See Samuel Hopkins.
Hopkins, John, Counterslip, Bristol, chair painter (1812). [D]
Hopkins, Richard, 4 Broadmead, Bristol, cm (1824–26). Declared bankrupt, Exeter Flying Post, 27 April 1826. [D]
Hopkins, Richard, 21 Leece St, Liverpool, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hopkins, Samuel, Peter St, Bloomsbury, London, carver and cm (1777–84). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £200 of which tools accounted for £20. Polled at Bristol in 1784. [GL, Sun MS vol. 254, p. 329] See John Hopkins.
Hopkins, Thomas, Salford and Manchester, carver and gilder (1813–25). Addresses given at Green Bank, Salford, 1813–14; no. 5 in 1815; 58 Bridge St, Manchester, 1816–18; Broughton Rd, 1821–22; no. 6 in 1824; and 50 Dale St, Manchester in 1825. [D]
Hopkins, William, at the corner of Rood Lane, 15 Fenchurch St, London, freeman joiner, upholder, cm and sworn appraiser (1746–74). Rococo trade card states that he ‘Makes & Sells all sorts of Cabinet Goods, Chairs & Looking Glasses, likewise all sorts of Bedsteads with damask Moreen, Harateen, Chinese Prints, Hollon Check & Linen Furniture, Ticking for Beds & Goose Feathers, with all sorts of Carpets, Wholesale & Retail. NB. Funerals Furnished and Goods Appraised.’ [Banks Coll., BM] Named as a member of the Livery of the Joiners’ Co. in 1750. Notice in the Daily Advertiser, 20 July 1752 reads: ‘On Saturday morning was found dead in her Bed, Mrs. Hopkins, wife of Mr. Hopkins, an eminent Cabinet Maker in Fenchurch Street. She went to bed the night before in good health.’ In 1762, 1763 and 1764 Hopkins employed six non-freemen for three months each year. [D; GL, Joiners’ Co. records, list of Liverymen; GL, City Licence bks, vols 3 and 4]
Hopkins, William, London (?), cm (1751). A magnificent fullsize billiard table on carved lion-paw cabriole legs from Parham Park, Sussex, is signed on part of the original bed ‘William Hopkins maker 1751’. [Conn., vol. 143, 1959, pp. 26–28, fig. 2]
Hopkins, William, parish of St James West, Middlx, carpenter, joiner, journeyman and cm (1755). Notices regarding bankruptcy appeared in Public Advertiser, 6 March and 26 June 1755.
Hopkins, William, Dublin, Eire, carver (1752). A notice in General Advertiser, 13 August 1752, reads that on 4 August in Dublin William Hopkins, an English carver, flung himself out of a window.
Hopkins, William, Cambridge, cm (1755). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., January 1755.
Hopkins, William, Shoreditch, London, carver and gilder (1789–93). Recorded at no. 18 in 1789 and no. 184 in 1793. [D]
Hopkins, William Frederick, Christopher Alley, Shoreditch, London, carver and gilder (1787). Took app. in 1787. [Westminster Ref. Lib., St Martin-in-the-Fields, app. indentures]
Hopkins, William, Greek St, Soho, London. On 12 November 1802 supplied the Prince of Wales with a ‘very neat Etruscan Japand Chinese Lanthorn’, with imitation bamboo canes and canopy top with twelve brass bells. Costing £9 9s, it was intended for the Princess of Wales at Blackheath, and made to match a ‘Water Gold Lanthorn’ at Carlton House. [Windsor Royal Archives, 25117]
Hopkins, William, St George's St, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1817–22). [D]
Hopkinson, Cunliffe, Newchurch, Haslingden, near Burnley, Lancs., cm (b. c. 1806–1841). Aged 35 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hopkinson, Francis snr, Carolgate, Retford, Notts., cm and u (1819–22). [D]
Hopkinson, Francis jnr, Carolgate, Retford, Notts., cm and u (1822). [D]
Hopkinson, Henry, Birstall, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1837). [D]
Hopley, William, near ‘The Four Swans’, Bishopsgate St, London, upholder (1732–49). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal].
Hopper, Edmund, Old Elvet, Durham, cm and joiner (1828–20). [D]
Hopper, Edward, Sittingbourne, Kent, cm (1824). [D]
Hopper, H., London (1812–25). Signed and dated 1 January 1812, an elaborate giltwood chandelier with eight foliate arms supporting gilt-metal fittings with moulded opaque glass ‘flame’ shades, and centred by a plinth supporting a plaster group of man, woman and cherub flying above; the whole hung by four chains from a giltwood corona topped with stars. [Sotheby's, 8 April 1982, lot 121] H. Hopper signed and dated 2 March 1818 an ebonised bracket, formed of a rectangular moulded shelf on corbel support carved with gadrooning. [Sotheby's, 9 February 1968, lot 151] Another painted plaster wall bracket is recorded by H. Hopper, signed and dated 20 February 1825, and consists of a moulded shelf supported on a female head wreathed in oak leaves and framed by a goatskin. [Sotheby's, 31 July 1970, lot 79]
Hopper, Mary, 23 Cook St, Liverpool, upholder (1796). [D]
Hopper, Michael, Witton-le-Wear, Durham, joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Hopper, Richard Mandeville, Newcastle, cm (1827–34). Addresses given at Yd 48, Groat Mkt and 8 Percy Ct in 1827; and 46 Leazes Cresc., 1833–34. [D]
Hopper, Thomas, address unrecorded, cm (1754). Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754, for two copies.
Hopperton, Edward, Liverpool, u (1820). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 26 May 1820.
Hoppeston, William, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hoppey, James, 17 Barbican, London, turner (1780–83). [D]
Hopton, Shadrach, Gloucester, cm and chairmaker (1815–40). Trading at Barton St in 1820, and Longsmith St in 1839. Child bapt. at St John Baptist's Church in 1815. [D; PR (bapt.)]
Horden, William, Broad Bridge St, Peterborough, Northants., cm and u (1830). [D]
Horlton, William, the Old Ropery, Stockton, Co. Durham, cm (1832). [D]
Horman, John, Essex St, Strand, London, cm and upholder (1765–97). Recorded as John & Son at no. 49, 1784–97, and no. 48, 1794–96. Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy in February 1765 for £275. Probably the John Horman who submitted a bill to Rev. Mr Brooks on 26 May 1767 for £10 8s 6d, paid on 15 June. [D; GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 102, ref. 63799; Heal Coll., BM]
Horn, Andrew, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Horn, Benjamin, Northampton, cm (1820–30). Recorded at Bridge St in 1820 and Newland in 1826. [Poll bks]
Horn, Edward, Norwich and London, cm (1781–1812). Son of Edward Horn, weaver; admitted freeman of Norwich on 2 June 1781. Polled at Norwich of London, 1784–1812. [Norwich freemen reg. and poll bks]
Horn, John, Short's Gdn, London, cm (1768). [Oxford poll bk]
Hornblow, William, Fetter Lane, London, freeman joiner (1762–65) and carver and gilder (1766–70). Employed nonfreemen for several months: in 1762 and 1764, eight nonfreemen; in 1765, six; in 1766 and 1767, fourteen; and in 1770, eighteen. [GL, City Licence bks, vols 3–7]
Hornblow, William, New Park St, Southwark, London, mahogany looking-glass frame maker (1835). [D]
Hornblower, Jesse, Chacewater, Cornwall, cm (1793). [D]
Hornby, James, Wellgate, Clitheroe, Lancs., joiner, cm, housebuilder etc. (1822–24). [D]
Hornby, William, Swan's Pl., Hessle New Rd, Hull, Yorks., cm (1838–39). [D]
Horne, Abial(l) & Son, Wellclose Sq., London, cm and glass grinders (1765–83). Recorded at no. 19, 1768–83. Rococo trade card states that he ‘Sells all Sorts of Looking Glasses, Cabinet & Upholstery Goods at the Lowest Prices. NB. For Exportation.’ Notice in Leicester Journal, 1778, reads that he had sold out on his premises in December 1777, and it was now being resold by an auctioneer in Leicester in January 1778. Recorded in Directories up to 1783, however. [D; Heal]
Horne, Abraham & Son, Wellclose Sq., London, cm (1768). [D]
Horne, Charles, address unrecorded, upholder (1715). Son of John Horne, freeman upholder of London; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. ‘by his father's Copy’ on 7 September 1715. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horne, Enoch, London St, Swaffham, Norfolk, cm (1830–39). [D]
Horne, James, 5 Chenies St, Bedford Sq., London, u (1829). [D]
Horne, James, High St, Hythe, Kent, cm and u (1838–39). [D]
Horne, James, 49 Foley St, Foley Pl., London, u (1839). [D]
Horne, John, London, upholder (1708–30). Took app. named John Horne, 1708–29/30. His son, Charles Horne, admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. in 1715. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horne, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1708–30). Son of William Horne, Gent. of South Normanton, Derby. App. to John Horne, upholder of London, on 1 September 1708. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 4 February 1729/30. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horne, John, Brewer St, St James's, London, upholder (1712– 27). Took app. on 23 December 1712. Named in contemporary newspapers. [PRO, app. reg.; Heal]
Horne, John, Nottingham, u (1720). [Nottingham burgess list]
Horne, S. & Co., Manchester, u, chairmakers and warehousemen (1819–21). Addresses given at 17 St Anne's St in 1819 and 44 Piccadilly in 1821. [D]
Horne, Samuel, 85 Church St, Manchester, u (1840). [D]
Horne, Thomas, address unrecorded, u (1712). Took app. on 16 August 1712. [PRO, app. reg.]
Horne, William, Britwell, Oxon., chairmaker (1824). Participant in a conveyance for a property in South Weston to be converted into a chapel or meeting house for the Society of Methodists. [Oxford RO, Bi II/i/9]
Horne, William, 34 New Montague St, Spitalfields, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Horner, —, Queen St, Westminster, London, u (1712). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal] Possibly George Horner.
Horner, —, at the west end of St Ann's, Soho, London, u (1720). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal]
Horner, Benjamin, Harrogate, Yorks., cm (1822–34). [D]
Horner, Charles, 10 Chapel St, Shoreditch, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Horner, Christopher, 72 Broad St, Radcliffe Highway, London, cm (1789–93). [D]
Horner, George, corner of Little Queen St, Westminster, London, u (1712). Insured his goods on 31 July 1712. [GL, Sun MS vol. 2, p. 82] See Horner, —, of Queen St.
Horner, George, Coleshill St, Birmingham, chairmaker (1839). [D]
Horner, Hannah, 75 Thomas St, Manchester, cm (1836–40). Recorded also at no. 77 in 1836. [D]
Horner, J., address unrecorded, u (1808–09). Submitted a bill to Lord Monson in 1808 for £103 12s, including payment for paper hanging and upholstery; 7s 6d for ‘3 Glasses Framing’ on 2 January; and 2s for a glass frame on 15 November. Receipted on 16 January 1809. [Lincoln RO, Monson 11/50]
Horner, James, address unrecorded, cm (d.1757). Notice of his death on 24 September 1757 in London Chronicle, 27 September [Apollo, February 1960, p. 36]
Horner, James Beck, High St, Lincoln, u and cm (1805–26). [D]
Horner, James, 27 Mill Hill, Manchester, cm (1817). [D]
Horner, James Horner, Norwich, cm (d. 1818). Will proved at Norwich in 1818. [Norfolk Record Soc., index of wills]
Horner, James, High Harrogate, Yorks., cm (1830). [D]
Horner, John, Manchester, cm, u and furniture broker (1813– 34). Addresses given at 2 Hanbrian's Ct in 1813; home at 13 Thomas St 1816–28; also Lever St, 1824–33; no. 17 in 1825–29 and no. 33 or 35, 1832–33. Recorded also at 14 Thomas St in 1828 and 31 Thomas St, probably wrongly, in 1834. [D] See Mary Horner.
Horner, John, Court 51, Micklegate, York, cm etc. (1840). [D]
Horner, Jonathan, Bewerley, near Pateley Bridge, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Horner, Jos., High St, Harrogate, Yorks., cm (1828–34). [D]
Horner, M., High St, St Benedict's Lincoln, cm (1828). [D]
Horner, Malachi, Bishops Waltham, Hants., upholder (1719). Insured his house on 17 September 1719. [GL, Sun MS vol. 10]
Horner, Mary, 13 Thomas St, Manchester, cm (1819). [D] See John Horner.
Horner, Peter, formerly of Ashley Lane, and late of Red-bank and Pump Yd, Cock-gates, Manchester, cm (1829). Notice regarding his case in the Court of Relief of Insolvent Debtors appeared in Liverpool Mercury, 25 October 1829.
Horner, Samuel, Castle Hill, Lincoln, cm and u (1822–35). Addresses given at Bail in 1822, Castle Hill, 1826–28, and Steep Hill, 1835). [D]
Horner, Thomas, London, upholder (1774–94). Recorded at Cross St, Rathbone Pl., ‘at Mr. Parker's’ in 1781; and Aldersgate St, 1786–94. Son of Christopher Horner, mariner of Shadwell. App. to John Phillips on 5 October 1774, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 7 November 1781. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horner, William, Tothill St, Westminster, London, u (1749). [Poll bk]
Horniman, Richard, address unrecorded, upholder (1758–65). Son of Robert Horniman, butcher of Abingdon, Berks. App. to Samuel Walker, draper, on 6 September 1758, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 5 December 1765. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Probably:
Horniman, Richard, Windsor, Berks., u (1794–98). [D; poll bk]
Horniman, William, 80 Peascod St, Windsor, Berks., cm and u (1830). [D]
Horning, James, 43 Store St, Bedford Sq., London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hornsby, Nicholas, Church Yd, Penrith, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1829–34). [D]
Hornsby, Thomas, Fenkle St, Newcastle, joiner and cm (1833– 38). [D]
Hornzee, George, 2 Church Lane, Whitechapel, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Horoson, James, New St, London, u (1784). [Poll bk]
Horrell, George, Exeter, Devon, cm (1822–40). Addresses given at 2 Back Lane, 1822–23; Bampfylde House, 1831–33; and Magdalen St, 1838–40. Sons George Thomas and Frederick John bapt. at St Mary Major on 8 January 1822. [D; Exeter Pocket Journal; PR (bapt.)]
Horrell, W., Exeter, Devon, cm (1826). Report that his app. had been imprisoned for disorderly conduct appeared in The Alfred, 14 March 1826.
Horrill, Thomas, North St, Exeter, Devon, cm and joiner (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 4 April 1792 for £600, including £300 on house, workshop and offices in North St, and £200 on utensils and stock. [GL, Sun MS vol. 386, p. 246]
Horris, (?), —, address unrecorded, u (1768). Payment to ‘upholdstoror Horris’ on Lady Day 1768 recorded amongst half-yearly bills listed by John Bragge of Sadborow, Thorncombe, Dorset. [Dorset RO, D104/F4]
Horrocks, —, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records, 1794– 1801. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Horrocks, Alexander, address unrecorded, upholder (1699–d. by 1731). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by redemption on 1 September 1699. Took his son, Christopher Horrocks, as app. on 1 July 1719. His son, John Horrocks, admitted freeman in 1731. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horrocks, Alexander, at ‘The White Bear’, against Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn, London, upholder and undertaker (1724–32). Trade card and contemporary press notice recorded. [Heal]
Horrocks, Barnard E., Sheffield, Yorks., wood turner and chairmaker (1821–22). Recorded at St James St in 1821; and 80 Fargate in 1822. [D] See Joseph Horrocks.
Horrocks, Christopher, address unrecorded. App. to his father, Alexander Horrocks, on 1 July 1719, but apparently not admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. Brother to John Horrocks. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horrocks, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1731). Son of Alexander Horrocks, freeman upholder of London. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 1 December 1731. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horrocks, John, Liverpool, cm (1780–85). Admitted freeman on 11 September 1780. Took apps named Thomas Holland in 1784 and James Woodward in 1785. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Horrocks (or Horrox), Joseph, 81 Fargate, Sheffield, Yorks., chairmaker (1814–18). [D] See Barnard E. Horrocks.
Horrod, James, 3 Little Chapel, Westminster, London, gilder (1809). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 6 March 1809 for £300 on goods in his house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 448, ref. 828545]
Horrox, Hammond, 84 English St, Hull, Yorks., cm and furniture broker (1840). [D]
Horsey, Joseph, Portsea Common, Portsmouth, Hants., chairmaker and turner (1783). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1783 for £900 of which utensils, stock and workshop accounted for £230. [GL, Sun MS vol. 314, p. 574]
Horsfall, James, Todmorden, Yorks., cm and joiner (1822–37). Trading with Samuel Horsfall at Church Gates, Todmorden Chapelry, in 1837. [D]
Horsley, —, 1 Worship St, Finsbury, London, chairmaker (1803). Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. Probably John Horsley.
Horsley, Edward, Caldew Bridges, Carlisle, Cumb., joiner and/ or cm (1829). [D]
Horsley, James, 1 Worship St, Moorfields, London, chairmaker (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 28 September 1792 for £300, £40 on utensils and stock, £60 on two warehouses. [GL, Sun MS vol. 388, p. 645]
Horsley, James, 4 Austin St, Shoreditch, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Horsley, John, Marsh St, Bristol, cm (1792–93). [D]
Horsley, John, 1 Worship St, Moorfields, London, japanned chairmaker (1801–02). [D] See Mary Horsley.
Hors(e)ley, John, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, cm, u, broker and builder (1822–35). Recorded at no. 15, 1828–35. [D]
Horsley, Luke, Newcastle, u (1753). Notice in Newcastle Courant, 29 December ‘that persons indebted to Mr. Luke Horsley, Upholsterer in Newcastle should pay their debts to …Jas. BELL…’.
Horsley, Mary, 1 Worship St, Moorfields, London, japanned chairmaker (1803). [D] See John Horsley.
Horsley, Matthew, 25 Sloane Sq., Chelsea, London, cm (1826– 39). [D]
Hors(e)ley, Richard, Bristol, cm (1752–94). Recorded in St Stephen's parish, 1754–74; 69 Lewin's Mead, 1775; and St Maryport's parish in 1781. Took app. named Andrews in 1752. [D; poll bks; S of G, app. index]
Horsley, William, address unrecorded, upholder (1717–29). Son of James Horsley, freeman joiner of London. App. to Charles Grange on 5 February 1717, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 September 1729. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Horsley, William, 4 James St, Green Sq., London, cm (1784). [D; poll bk]
Horsley, William, St Augustine St, Norwich, cm (1830–42). [D]
Horsmaill (or Horsnail), Thomas, High St, Strood, Kent, cm and u (1807–39). Polled at Rochester in 1830. [D]
Horsmaill (or Horsnaill), William, 11 Snargate St, Dover, cm and u (1824–39). Trading as Horsmaill & Son, 1826–29. [D]
Hort, Peter, 56 Union St, Salford, Lancs., cm (1800–02). [D]
Horth, John, Norwich, upholder (1783–1818). Addresses given at White Lion Lane, 1784–1808; no. 18 in 1784, no. 17, 1801–02; and Swan Lane in 1810. Former app., William David, admitted freeman on 21 September 1804; and David Elliot on 21 September 1805. [D; poll bks; Norwich freemen reg.]
Hortley, Thomas, address unrecorded, freeman u (1713). Took app. on 13 June 1713. [PRO, app. reg.]
Horton, Daniel, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Horton, Daniel, 27 Mortimer St, Cavendish Sq., London, cm, u and buhl inlayer (1820–28). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 14 January 1822 for £600, of which £250 accounted for stock, utensils and goods in trust, workshop and yard. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 490, ref. 987640]
Horton, David, address unrecorded, cm (c. 1829–41). Named in the accounts of Charles William Vane, Marquess of Londonderry for furnishing carried out at Wynyard Park, Co. Durham. [Durham RO, Londonderry papers, D/LO/E484, vol. 1]
Horton, George, Piccadilly, London, upholder (1761). The will of Lt Gen. Huske included £500 to Horton. [Gents Mag., January 1761]
Horton, George, Bolebridge St, Tamworth, Staffs., cm (1834). [D]
Horton, Henry, Walcot St, Bath, Som., cm and broker (1826– 40). Trading at no. 36 in 1826 and no. 37 in 1840 when he took out insurance. [D; Sun MS vol. 268, ref. 1343850]
Horton, John, Charles St, Birmingham, cm and joiner (1767). [D]
Horton, John, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1822–37). Trading at Kirk Ings Wharf in 1822, and 3 Groves, Kirkgate, 1834. Recorded as Jonathan at 3 Cookson's Yd, Kirkgate in 1837. [D]
Horton, John, High St, Chippenham, Wilts., cm (1830–39). [D]
Horton, Joseph, Panton St, London, u (1709). [Rate bks]
Horton, Joseph, 123 Moor St, Birmingham, cm (1770). [D]
Horton, Joseph, Bridge St, Lane End, Staffs., chairmaker (1834–35). [D]
Horton, Joshua, Ader St, Manchester Sq., London, buhl manufacturer (1837). [D]
Horton, Luke, Postor (?) St, London, cm (1784). [Poll bk]
Horton, Richard, Newport, Salop, cm (1797–98). [D]
Horton, Walter, 87 London Rd, Liverpool, cm and u (1832). Advertised sale of ‘a considerable quantity of ready-made Furniture’ in Liverpool Mercury, 2 March 1832, offering thanks ‘for the liberal encouragement he has received in the CABINET & UPHOLSTERY BUSINESS’. Stock comprised ‘Mahogany Four-post & Tent Bedsteads, set of Mahogany French Bedsteads, hung with Moreen, two sets of Mahogany Trafalgar Chairs, two Mahogany Sofas, Mahogany & Painted Pembroke & other Tables, & a great variety of useful Cabinet Furniture.’
Horton, William, 19 Mt Pleasant, Gray's Inn Lane, London, cm, u and furniture broker (1827–35). [D]
Horton, William, Ramsgate, Kent, cm (1830). [Dover poll bk]
Horvard, William, 19 Mercer St, London, carver (1785). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 16 December 1785 for £100 on household goods and clothes. [GL, Sun MS vol. 333, p. 602]
Horwell, William, 24 Gt Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, miniature frame maker (1835). [D]
Hose, John, Compton St, Westminster, London, freeman upholder (1712–14). Insured his house for £100 on 18 August 1712, and again in 1714. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 10, ref. 8783; vol. 13, p. 282]
Hosken, William, Seal St, St Day, Cornwall, cm (1830). [D]
Hosken, William Veal, Lower St, Penryn, Cornwall, cm and u (1830). [D]
Hoskins, Charles, 16 Trenchard St, Bristol, cm and u (1805–24). Trading with George Hoskins as chairmakers and painters in general, 1805–10. [D] See Rachel Hoskins.
Hoskins, Mary, Bristol, u (1733). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., March 1733.
Hoskins, Mrs Rachel, Trenchard St, Bristol, cm and u (1825). [D] See Charles Hoskins.
Hosted, Samuel, Mill Lane, Oundle, Northants., chair turner (1823–30). [D]
Hother, William, St John's parish, Lewes, Sussex, cm (1812). [Poll bk]
Hotton, John, Market St, Falmouth, Cornwall, cm and u (1830). [D]
Hough, Edward Fletcher, Liverpool, cm (1796–1826). Petitioned freedom as son of Robert Hough, joiner, and admitted freeman on 25 January 1796. His son, Edward Fletcher Hough, tailor, born on 7 March 1802, petitioned freedom on birthright in 1826. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Hough, James, Lewin St, Middlewich, Cheshire, cm (1828). [D]
Hough, Robert, Liverpool, cm (1761). Former app., Edward Bevan, petitioned freedom in 1761. [Liverpool freemen's committee bk]
Hough, Thomas, 14 Paradise St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Hougham, White, London, cm (1790–96). Recorded in Carnaby Mkt, 1790, and Queen St, Soho, 1796. [Canterbury poll bks]
Houghton, —, 96 Holborn, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. See A. and Michael Houghton, and Houghton & Son.
Houghton, A., 96 High Holborn, London, carpet and cabinet warehouseman (1811–19). [D] See Michael Houghton, and Houghton & Son.
Houghton, Edward, Haverhill, Suffolk, cm (1824). [D]
Houghton, George, 186 Queen St, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants., cm and u (1830). [D]
Houghton, George, 65 Gt Dover St, London, u (1837). [D]
Houghton, Henry, High St, Southwark, London, u (1829–35). Trading at no. 103 in 1829 and 2 Adams Pl., High St in 1835. [D]
Houghton, Henry, 65 Gt Dover St, London, u (1839). [D]
Houghton, Isaac & Samuel, Parr Sq., Prescot, Lancs., joiners and cm (1828). [D]
Houghton, James, 54 Duckinfield St, Liverpool, u (1837). [D]
Houghton, John, Liverpool, cm (1780–1818). Addresses given at 24 Cumberland St, 1790–96; 11 Fontenoy St in 1796; 4 Rainfords Gdns, 1800–03; 42 Brownlow Hill in 1804, with shop in Lord St, 1804–14; no. 67, 1813–14; 71 Brownlow Hill in 1805; 58 Mt Pleasant St in 1807; no. 38 in 1810; no. 57 in 1811; 3 Bold Pl., 1813; no. 2 in 1814; 2 Mt Pleasant in 1816; and no. 68 in 1818. Petitioned freedom on servitude to George Parker, and admitted freeman on 15 September 1780. John Houghton jnr, book-keeper, petitioned freedom on servitude to John Houghton snr, cm, in 1796. Sale of stock on dissolution of partnership with Edward Lowe at Lord St, Castle Yd, advertised in Liverpool Courier, 24 May 1809. [D; Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk] Two tradesmen may be concerned here. See Lowe & Houghton.
Houghton, John, Liverpool, u (1816–d. by 1820). Admitted freeman on 10 June 1816. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Houghton, John Christian, Liverpool, u (1836–39). John Houghton was trading at 15 Flint St in 1839. John Christian Houghton was admitted freeman on 29 July 1836. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Houghton, Michael, 96 High Holborn, London, u and cm (1808–17). [D] See A. Houghton, and Houghton & Son.
Houghton, Richard, Norwich, cm (1818). App. to Launcelot Howlett, and admitted freeman on 24 February 1818. [Norwich freemen rolls]
Houghton, William, address unrecorded, u (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Houghton, William, 161 New Bond St, London, portable desk, dressing case, work box and cabinet case maker (1839). [D]
Houghton & Son, 96 High Holborn, London, u, cm, appraisers and undertakers. 19th-century trade card continues: ‘Carpeting and Bedding. Dealers in Brussels & other Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Druggets & Oil Clothes. The Trade Supplied.’ [Landauer Coll., MMA, NY] See A. and Michael Houghton.
Houlden, John, Leicester, cm and u (1818–35). Addresses given at Belgrave Gate, 1818–22, and Granby St in 1835 also as a house agent. Advertisement showing elegant Regency premises at Belgrave Gate appeared in Leicester trade directory of 1822. [D]
Houl(d)gate, Thomas, York, cm (1812–30). Resident in Petergate in 1823 and St Michael le Belfrey parish in 1830. App. to John Taylor, cm, and admitted freeman in 1812. His son, William, app. to Richard Carter on 19 May 1830. [D; York app. reg. and freemen rolls] See William Houlgate.
Houldon, William, 17 Western Rd, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1839). [D]
Houlds, John, Hounsditch, London, freeman joiner, cm (1780). Employed ten non-freemen for six weeks in 1780. [GL, City Licence bks, vol. 10]
Houlgate, Robert, York, cm (1833). Son of William Houlgate, butcher; app. to John Taylor, cm, on 23 January 1833. [York app. reg.]
Houlgate, William, York, cm (1830). Son of Thomas Houlgate, cm of St Michael le Belfrey parish, York; app. to Richard Carter, cm and u of Bishophill Senior parish, on 19 May 1830. [York app. reg.] See Thomas Houldgate.
Houlker, William, 5 Church St, Blackburn, Lancs., cm, u, paper hanger, looking-glass manufacturer and carpet warehouseman (1818–34). Recorded at 4 Church St in 1828. Traded at 72 St James St, Burnley on Mondays. Advertised sale of stock in Liverpool Mercury, 14 December 1827: ‘To be DISPOSED of immediately, the STOCK in TRADE of an UPHOLSTERER, who is declining business; Comprising a new & well assorted stock of Carpet, Paper Hangings, Oil Cloths, Hair Seating, & all other articles necessary for carrying on the above business respectably. The premises are eligibly situated in the Centre of the town of Blackburn, & may be had for a term of years, if required, at a reasonable rent. The above Concern presents an advantageous opportunity for any person wishing to embark in the above Trade as the Stock is quite modern, & the Connexions most respectable.’ Houlker may have acted as the agent in the sale of another tradesmen's stock, since he is named in trade directories in 1834, still at 5 Church St, Blackburn. [D]
Houlton, Gracious, Bristol, cm (1781–1801). Trading in Wilder St, 1792–1801. [D; poll bks]
Houlton, James, Manchester, cm (1794–97). Trading at Prussia St in 1794, and ‘The White Lion’, 7 Thomas St in 1797. [D]
Houlton, Matthew, address unrecorded, upholder (1704). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 6 September 1704. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hounsworth, Jesse, Low Church Alley, Hull, Yorks., chairmaker etc. (1814). [D] See Jesse Ounsworth.
House, —, London, m (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
House, George, 36 Devonshire Pl., Brighton, Sussex, cm (1839). [D]
House, Ralph, 5 French Yd, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell, London, carver (1808). [D]
Household, Robert, 16 New Rd, Back Lane, Ratcliff, London, bedstead and cm (1781–89). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1781 for £200, of which utensils and stock accounted for £130. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 298, p. 159]
Household, Thomas, London, bedstead manufacturer, u and cm (1820–39). Trading at 72 St George's Pl. in 1820; 27 New Rd, St George's East in 1822; and 14 Crombie's Row, Commercial Rd in 1839. [D]
Houseman, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1711–25). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 6 June 1711. Took apps named Francis Kellow, 1712–21; and Thomas Roby, 1715–25. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Probably John Housman.
Housley, Peter, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1770–80). Son of Sam Housley of Arnold; taken as app. in 1770. Took app. named William Bird in 1780. [Nottingham app. list]
Housman, John, St Bartholomew Close, London, freeman upholder (1712). Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy on 23 December 1712 for £250 on his house and workshop. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 11, p. 73] Probably John Houseman.
Houston, James, North Birkenhead, Cheshire, u and feather dealer (1834–39). Trading at 3 Portland Pl. in 1834; 8 Portland St in 1835; 10 Gt George Pl. in 1737; and 44 Bridge St in 1839. Recorded in association with O'Neill & Co. in 1834. [D]
Hovell, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1811–16). Addresses given at 4 Hodson St in 1811; 17 Gt Crosshall St in 1813; and no. 37 in 1816. [D]
How(e), —, Chelmsford, Essex, u (1737–40). Named in Earl Fitzwalter's accounts on 19 July 1737, ‘pulling down & setting up beds & furniture’ for £15 19s 8d; and on 15 August 1738 ‘for stuffing a base of Blew’ for a settee made by Gainge, joiner. On 24 September 1740 How was paid £30 in part payment of a bill for £104 16s 3½d. [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, pp. 107–09] Possibly Samuel How.
How, Bennett, Westgate St, Newcastle, cm and carpenter (1790). [D] See Bennet Howe.
How, Charles, Newcastle, cm, carpenter and joiner (1778–87). Trading at Flesh Mkt in 1778 and Silver St in 1787. [D]
How, J., Tiverton, Devon, cm (1829). Marriage to ‘Miss Reed of the Prince Blucher, Westexe’ at St Peter's Church, reported in Exeter Flying Post, 10 December 1829.
How, John, address unrecorded, carver (1731–36). Worked at Kew Palace and the Wren City Churches as partner of John Benson (fl. 1727–43). [Conn., June 1981, p. 144] Carried out work for Sir Richard Hoare between 1731–36, receiving £23 12s 6d on 21 December 1731; and £24 11s 11d in November 1732 for work on a chimney and glass frames, cornice and wainscotting; and carving and gilding two pedestals for candles supplied to Barn Elms House. In March 1736 How charged Sir Richard £3 14s for carving and gilding picture frames. [Private accounts, Hoare's Bank, Fleet St; V&A Lib., English Manuscripts, tradesmen's bills]
How, Robert, Germain St, London, upholder (1726–d.1758). Polled at Westminster of ‘German’ St and Duke St in 1749. Named in contemporary newspapers. Death at his home in Jermyn St reported in London Chronicle, 22 April 1758. [Heal]
How, Samuel, Chelmsford, Essex, upholder (1707–34). Son of Philip How, milliner of Chelmsford; app. to Arthur Osborne on 2 September 1707, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 4 March 1723/24. Took app. named Robert Phipps, 1723–31. Named in the Essex Freeholders’ book in 1734. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records; Essex RO, Q/RJ 1/1] See How(e), —.
How, Thomas, Jarman St, corner of Duke St, Westminster, London, u (1710–33). Took out separate insurance policies in 1714–15 on his goods and a house in Brompton, parish of Kensington. [GL, Sun MS vol 3, ref. 3753 and GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 14, p. 397] In 1710–11 he provided furnishings to the value of £830 to the 5th Earl of Salisbury at Hatfield House, Herts., the State bed alone costing £289. He also supplied richly upholstered seat furniture for the waiting room, the green damask room, the dining room and the red room at Hatfield, as well as two more beds. [Hatfield House MS no.467; C. Life, 22 December 1983, p. 1853] The Monson papers include a bill dated 1733 from Thomas How to Lady Sonds for bedding, upholstery materials, cushions, etc., amounting to £13 6s 6½d; it is receipted ‘pr Tho How by ye hands of Mr John Delacourt’. [Lincoln RO, Monson papers, no. 12] The name ‘Thomas How of Westminster, gentleman, upholsterer’ occurs on an inscribed lead plaque found at Sutton Scarsdale, Derbs. recording the names of the architect and fifteen master tradesmen responsible for building, decorating and equipping the hall. The tablet, which bears two dates 1724 and 1728 is described in C. Life, 15 February 1919, p. 171. The survivors from a walnut suite formerly at Sutton Scarsdale, embellished with verreeglomisée armorial panels and gilt lead mounts (now divided between the MMA, NY, the Frick Coll., the Cooper Hewitt Museum and Temple Newsam, Leeds) are likely to be from How's workshop. C.G.G.
How, Thomas, Downton, Wilts., cm (1756). Took app. named James Field in 1756. [Wilts. Apps and their Masters]
Howard, —, Newport St, St Ann's, London, picture frame maker (1746). Announcement in London Evening Post, 4–6 September 1746, that Mr Howard, formerly a picture frame maker, by which he made a handsome fortune, had given up this trade in order to become Master Joiner to the Palace of St James, a post he had resigned some time before to one of his sons. Possibly Gerrard or John Howard, carvers and gilders.
Howard, —, address unrecorded, cm (c.1775). Submitted a bill totalling £8 for furniture supplied to Denton Park, Yorks. [Furn. Hist., 1968]
Howard, Ann, 25 Gerrard St, London, paper stainer and upholder (1783). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1783 for £600 of which utensils, stock and goods accounted for £350. [GL, Sun MS vol. 313, p. 328] See Thomas Howard of Gerrard St.
Howard, Charles, Lancaster, cm (1752–68). App. to Christopher Walker in 1752, and admitted freeman, 1767–68, when stated of London. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Howard, Charles, Bawtry, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1834). [D]
Howard, Charlotte, 16 Russell St, Plymouth, Devon, working u (1830). [D]
Howard, Edward, Liverpool, cm and household broker (1790– 1824). Addresses given at 129 Dale St in 1790; 42 Derby St in 1794; 36 Stanley St in 1805; no. 39, 1807–11; no. 45 in 1813; and various numbers between 1816–24. [D] See Thomas Howard of Liverpool.
Howard, Edward, Liverpool, cm (1838). App. to William John Roberts in 1838. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Howard, George, Preston, Lancs., joiner and cm (1816–18). Trading at Grimshaw St, 1816–18, and 27 Shambles in 1818. [D]
Howard, George, Fore St, Cullompton, Devon, carver and gilder (1830–38). [D]
Howard, Gerrard, address unrecorded, Carver and Gilder to the Royal Family (1727–41). Supplied a number of carved and gilt frames for the Royal Palaces from 1727–41. In 1734–35 he submitted an account ‘for very large carved 9:4 frame’ costing £54 3s, for the great staircase at Hampton Court. [PRO, LC, 3/20] Receipted a bill from John Howard in 1727. Named in the accounts of Earl Fitzwalter for frames supplied to Moulsham Hall, Chelmsford, or Schomberg House, Pall Mall, London. On 6 March and 12 October 1731 he was paid a total of £25 5s 6d for a stretching frame, and cleaning a portrait of the Duke of Schomberg by Kneller. On 21 October 1740 he received £10 1s for a frame ‘for a Naked Picture of Beluchis, now at Moulsham, £6, and for a Frame for a Picture of Ulrick done by Vandermayne £3. 3s.’. [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwater, pp. 188–91; DEF] Possibly Howard, —, of Newport St, London.
Howard, Henry, Philip Lane, near Aldermanbury, London, cm (1725). Insured goods and merchandise in his house for £500 on 25 December 1725. [GL, Sun MS vol. 20, ref. 37609]
Howard, Henry snr, Liverpool, cm (1767–84). Admitted freeman on 15 October 1767. Former app., Henry Howard jnr, admitted on 13 December 1784. [Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Howard, Henry jnr, Liverpool, cm (1784–d. by 1820). Addresses given at 19 Barter St in 1790; no. 21 in 1796; no. 47 in 1800; and no. 20, 1800–10. Petitioned freedom on servitude to Henry Howard snr, and admitted freeman on 13 December 1784. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.] Possibly Henry Howards.
Howard, Henry, High St, Strood, Kent, cm (1830–38). [D]
Howard, J., Chesham, Bucks., cm (1839). [D]
Howard, J., 7 Friary Pl., Guildford, Surrey, cm, carver and turner (1839–40. [D]
Howard, John, at ‘The Talbot’, Long Lane, near West Smithfield, London, upholder, appraiser and dealer in tapestries and Oriental carpets (1710–d.1742). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 3 August 1710, and master in 1734. Took apps named Thomas Hathaway until 1726; Thomas Roberts, 1716–27; James Smith, 1721–29; and Thomas Denham, 1741–42. Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy on 20 March 1713, renewed on 3 April 1721, for £400 on his house. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 12, p. 534] Newspapers record him in partnership with Hambleton, 1724–30. [Heal] Submitted a bill to Gilbert Heathcote on 22 November 1728 for ‘a fine Carpet’, costing £3 5s. Accompanying trade card states that Howard ‘Makes and Sells all manner of Household Furniture, viz. Damask, Mohair, Workt and Stuff Beds, & Bedding, with Chairs & Glasses, all sorts of Silk Worsted Damask Camblets & Water'd Cheneys, &c. by Wholesale or Retale. Where are also sold all Sorts of Persia Muskat and Turkey Carpets, fine and ordinary Tapestry Hangings, at reasonable Rates. NB. Fine Tapestry and Carpets are clean'd after the best manner.’ [Lincoln RO, 2 ANC 12/D/18] On 22 October 1729 Howard sent a bill to Paul Foley of the Temple and Little Ormond St, London, and Newport House, Almeley, Herefs., for a ‘Fine Large Turke Carp.t’ at £3 5s, and one at £3, receipted by Joseph Hitchcock for his master. A similar bill to Foley is dated 1 January 1730. [Herefs. RO, Foley papers, F/A III/55] Howard provided carpets costing £12 5s to Sir Richard Hoare on 3 November 1732. [Private accounts, Hoare's Bank, Fleet St; Heal Coll., BM] John Howard's death on 9 September 1742 was reported in Gents Mag. He left handsome fortunes to his son and daughter. The sale of his stock and household furniture was announced in the Daily Advertiser, 2 November 1742; catalogues to be had from Jos. Hamilton, upholder of Long Lane. Howard's son, John, born at Enfield and bred a Presbyterian Dissenter (b.c.1724–d.1790) achieved fame as a philanthropist and prison reformer. His obituary in Gents Mag., March 1790, noted that his father was allied to the families of Tatnall, Cholmley, Bernardiston, and Samuel Whitbread, Esq., MP for Bedford. [DNB; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23]
Howard, John, London, joiner, carver and gilder, picture frame maker (1721–29). In 1721 he provided ‘a frame carV&Apos;d & gilt with gold’ for ‘yo.r Honble Picture over the Chimney’ for Walpole at Chelsea. [C. Life, 22 January 1921] On 31 January 1727 John Howard, ‘joyner of the Privy Chamber’ supplied ‘carved & gilded frames for his Majesty's pictures’, costing £141 19s 2d. [Lord Chamberlain's Office 5/18] Supplied carved and gilt picture frames to the Duke of Montrose, receiving a total of £22 18s in 1722. One frame, costing £6 6s was for a portrait of the Duke, another, for the Duke of Roxburghe's portrait. In 1727 Howard was paid for picture frames supplied in 1723, one for a portrait of Montrose's great grandfather, James, 2nd Marquis, Lord Northesk. Mr De Mar (?), gilder, was paid for mounting the pictures. [Scottish RO, GD 220/6/1230/2; GD220/5/858/16] Sent two picture frames to William Aikman in 1727, one of black and gold for a picture of ‘Secretary Johnson’; the bill was receipted by Gerrard Howard. [Scottish RO, GD220/6/1356/20] Bill from John Howard recorded for 2¾ frames carved & gilt with gold the Italian Moulding’, at £3, dated 1729. [Scottish RO, GD220/6/1381/12] Possibly Howard, —, 87 Newport St.
Howard, John, St Ann's Ct, Covent Gdn, London, chairmaker (1749). [Poll bk]
Howard, John, 3 Parker St, Manchester, cm (1797). [D]
Howard, John, 26 Skelhorne Pl., Liverpool, u (1811). [D]
Howard, John, Goodman's Fields, London, cm and u (1820–39) Trading at 24 Leman St in 1820, and 34 Little Alie St in 1835. [D] Trade card reads; ‘JOHN HOWARD, Cabinet Manufacturer, Upholster, Appraiser & Undertaker, CARPET & FEATHER WAREHOUSE, 34 Alie Street, Goodman's Fields. Plain & Ornamental Paper Hanging. Furniture for Exportation.’ [GL] See Samuel Howard of 79 Leman St.
Howard, John & Co., 122 Forest St, Cripplegate, London, looking-glass manufacturer (1839). [D]
Howard, Joseph, 3 Abrahams Ct, Bath, Som., cm (1826). [D]
Howard, Joseph jnr, Walmer Rd, Sandwich, Kent, cm (1832). [Poll bk]
Howard, Maria, George St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, cm and upholder (1839). [D]
Howard, Nathaniel, Plymouth, Devon, chairmaker (1758). Took app. named Buckingham in 1758. [S of G, app. index]
Howard, Peter, Liverpool, cm (1831). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 9 September 1831.
Howard, Richard, Liverpool, cm (1812–37). Admitted freeman on 5 October 1812. Recorded at 8 Mansfield St in 1835 and 3 Sidney St East in 1837. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Howard, Richard, London, u and appraiser (1820–39). Trading at 16 Old St in 1820 and 27 Goswell St in 1837. [D]
Howard, Robert, address unrecorded. On 24 October 1787 he was paid 19s 10d for painting seven chairs at Dunham Massey, Cheshire. [John Rylands Lib., Manchester Univ., George Cooke's accounts]
Howard, Robert, Rock St, Redvales, Bury, Lancs., cm and chairmaker (1816–18). [D]
Howard, Samuel, 10 Gt Queen St, London, organ builder, cm and broker (1781). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1781 for £200 of which £150 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 296, p. 570] See Thomas Howard at this address.
Howard, Samuel, 79 Leman St, Goodman's Fields, London, cm (1808). [D] See John Howard of Goodman's Fields.
Howard, Thomas, Gerrard St, Soho, London, upholder (1775– 76). Named in Bailey's list of bankrupts in 1776. [D] See Ann Howard.
Howard, Thomas, 3 Foster St, Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate St, London, joiner and carver (1778). Insured his house for £100 in 1778. [GL, Sun MS vol. 271, p. 229]
Howard, Thomas, 10 Gt Queen St, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, carver (1782). Insured his house for £200 in 1782. [GL, Sun MS vol. 302, p. 624] See Samuel Howard at this address.
Howard, Thomas, 8 Gt Andrews St, London, carver (1791). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 28 March 1791 for £300 including £50 on the workshop behind his house. [GL, Sun MS ref. 581357]
Howard, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1803–39). Recorded at 32 Stanley St, 1829–37, and nos 63 and 65 in 1839. App. to William Harvey in 1803, and admitted freeman on 9 October 1812. [D; Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk] See Edward Howard.
Howard, Thomas, 8 North St Mews, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Howard, Timothy Thomas, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1840). [PR (marriage)]
Howard, W. H., 16 Clarence St, Cheltenham, Glos., cm and u (1839–40). [D]
Howard, alias Howitt, William, Hungate, York, cm (1784). [Poll bk]
Howard, William, 15 Baptist St, Liverpool, cm (1821). [D]
Howard, William, Wye, Kent, chairmaker (1826–34). [D]
Howard, William, London, manufacturer of pocket books, work boxes, dressing cases, backgammon boards etc. (1831– 63). Trading at 68 Aldersgate, 1831–35; no. 63, 1835–37; 62 Barbican, 1838–39; and nos 62 and 63 thereafter. Trade card in Heal Coll., BM. [D]
Howard, William, East St, Ipswich, Suffolk, cm and u (1839). [D]
Howard & Hambleton, at ‘The Talbot’, Long Lane, near West Smithfield, London, u (1724–30). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal] See John Howard at this address.
Howard & Whitehead, 10 Alport St, Manchester, carvers, gilders and looking-glass manufacturers (1794). [D]
Howards, Henry, Liverpool, cm (1804). Marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hooton of Barton's Lane, Oldhall St, ‘after a TEDIOUS courtship of SIX DAYS’, at St Nicholas's Church, reported in Liverpool Chronicle, 3 October 1804. Possibly Henry Howard
Howarth, Jeremiah, Halifax, Yorks., cm (1793–1837). Trading at 35 Swine Mkt in 1837. Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D]
Howarth, John, Wallgate, Wigan, Lancs., u (1818–22). [D]
Howarth, John, Dockray Sq., Colne, Lancs., joiner and cm (1824). [D]
Howarth, John, Brotherton's Buildings, Wigan, Lancs., u (1825). [D]
Howarth, John, Lancaster, cm (1826–38). App. to Henry Walker in 1826, and admitted freeman, 1827–28. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Howarth, Joseph, 18 Lambert St, Liverpool, cm (1835). [D]
Howcraft, Thomas, at ‘The Looking-Glass’, Cornhill, and ‘The India Cabinet’, Long Acre, London, joiner, cm and glass seller (1711). In partnership with Richard Robinson, supplied looking-glasses to the 1st Earl of Nottingham at Burley-onthe-Hill, Rutland in 1711. One of them cost £82 1s 6d which included patterned and scalloped glass borders and a cut coat of arms in the shaped top panel. Earlier in 1711 Thomas Howcraft, joiner, of St Martin-in-the-Fields parish was declared bankrupt, London Gazette, July, and 11 and 14 August 1711. Overmantel recorded in the V&A archives. [Wills, Looking-Glasses, p. 21; Pearl Finch, History of Burley-on-the-Hill; C. Life, 15 February 1930; Antique Collector, November-December 1947; Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 23]
Howcraft, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1834). App. to William John Roberts in 1834. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Howdell, William, London, chairmaker (1754–60). Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. Took app. named Richard Moreley for £20 in 1760, when recorded in St James's, Westminster. [S of G, app. index]
Howe, —, Strand, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Howe, Bennet, Cowpen Horton, Northumb., joiner and cm (1828). [D] See Bennett How.
Howe, David, West Auckland, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–29). [D]
Howe, George, Church St, Crewkerne, Som., carver and gilder (1840). [D]
Howe, James, Church St, Salisbury, Wilts., carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Howe, Joseph, Ellis St, Exeter Row, Birmingham, interior decorator, cm and u (1828–35). Recorded at no. 41 in 1835. [D]
Howe, Thomas, 49 Duke St, Liverpool, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Howel, William, 46 Long Alley, Moorfields, London, cm (1808). [D]
Howell, —, near Orange Ct, Swallow St, London, cm (1763). Mentioned in a Sun Insurance policy of 5 March 1763 of John Adams, Gent., at ‘Mr. Howells’. [GL, Sun MS ref. 197283]
Howell, —, Red Cross St, London, chairmaker (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Howell, Charles, Upper King St, Bloomsbury, London, upholder (1776). Insured his house and goods for £500 in 1776. [GL, Sun MS vol. 246, p. 542]
Howell, David, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Howell, Edward, 69 Weaman's St, Birmingham, chairmaker (1835). [D]
Howell, George, Bricklin St, Birmingham, chairmaker (1830). [D]
Howell, Henry, 35 Barrack St, Devonport, Devon, cm (1838). [D]
Howe(l), James, Bristol, upholder (1754–57). Recorded in St Nicholas's parish in 1754. Took apps named Stiffe in 1754, Mayo in 1755, and Bennet in 1757. [Poll bk; S of G, app. index]
Howell, James, Norwich, cm (1826). App. to Joseph Pigg, and admitted freeman on 3 May 1826. [Norwich freemen rolls]
Howell, John, Liverpool, cm (1761–69). Trading in Derby St, 1767–69. Admitted freeman in March 1761 on servitude to James Robinson. [D; Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Howell, John, Brownlaw St, near the hospital, London, cm (1777). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1777 for £300 of which £150 accounted for utensils, stock and goods. [GL, Sun MS vol. 254, p. 334]
Howell, John, Redcliffe St, Bristol, cm and u (1784–94). [D; poll bk]
Howell, Mary, Bristol, upholder (1761). Took apps named Thorn and Rise in 1761. [S of G, app. index]
Howell, Mathew, Wickwar, Glos., upholder (1784). [Bristol poll bk]
Howell, P., Goldsmith St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1816–d.1823). Death on 13 May 1823 reported in Exeter Flying Post, 15 May. [D; Exeter Pocket Journal] Possibly:
Howell, Philip, SS Paul and Bradninch, Exeter, Devon, cm (1803). [Militia Census]
Howell, Robert, 39 Kew Pl., Church St, Brighton, Sussex, cm (1822). [D]
Howell, William, address unrecorded, upholder (1712–19). Son of Andrew Howell, yeoman of St James Weston; app. to John Horn on 6 August 1712, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 November 1719. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Howell, William, against St Ann's Church, Princes St, Westminster, London, upholder (1722). Insured goods and merchandise in his house for £500 on 17 July 1722. [GL, Sun MS vol. 14, ref. 25920]
Howell, William, North St, Ripon, Yorks, cm (1822–37). [D]
Howell & Jones, 9 Regent St, formerly 89 Pall Mall, London, late Ryder & Scribe. In January 1828 supplied items totalling £36 18s 6d to Burton Constable, Yorks., including a buhl inkstand, four Eau de Cologne standishes, and a mother-ofpearl candlestand. [Burton Constable, voucher bundles, Humberside RO, DDCC]
Howell & Son, 15 Bridge St, Bristol, u (1775). [D]
Howes, —, address unrecorded. The impressed mark ‘HOWES’ is recorded on two Windsor chairs, the style and construction of which resemble chairs known to have come from the Thames Valley. [Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham; Furn. Hist., 1978, pl. 55a]
Howes, George, Leicester, cm (1826). App. to his father, possibly Joshua Howes of Leicester (1789–1815, D); and admitted freeman in 1826, of Birmingham. [Leicester freemen rolls]
Howes, Simon, St Gregory's Churchyard, Norwich, cm (1836). [D]
Howes, William, Wymondham, Norfolk, cm and chairmaker (1822). [D]
Howett, John, Shelford, Notts., joiner and cm (1832). [D]
Howey, Joseph, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hants., turner, chair and pattern maker (1792–98). [D]
Howin, John, 22 Clerkenwell Green, London, bedstead maker (1809–11). [D]
Howis, Edward, Piccadilly, London, upholder (1811). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 30 December 1811 with John Turner, upholder, on a house at 12 Berwick St in the latter's tenure, for £500. [GL, Sun MS vol. 459, ref. 864461]
Howland, Frederick, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b.c. 1816–41). Sons bapt. in 1835 and 1837. Aged 25 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Howland, Russen, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1830). [D]
Howles, G., 17 North Audley St, London, u (1825). [D]
Howlett, Charles, Norwich, cm (1818). Son of Launcelot Howlett, cm; admitted freeman on 4 April 1818. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Howlett, Elija (or Elisha), Hull, Yorks., carver, gilder and glass silverer (1831–40). Addresses given at Parker's Gal., 14 Trippett in 1831; 22 Savile St in 1834; no. 24 in 1835; and no. 40, 1838–40. [D] See William Howlett.
Howlett, Heasman Thomas, Norwich, cm (1812). Son of Launcelot Howlett, cm; admitted freeman on 15 February 1812. [Norwich freemen reg.] Possibly Thomas Howlett.
Howlett, Henry, Norwich and London, cm (1807–18). Son of Launcelot Howlett, cm; admitted freeman of Norwich on 31 October 1807. Polled at Norwich of London in 1818. [Norwich freemen reg.]
Howlett, James, London, chairmaker (1812). [Norwich poll bk]
Howlett, James, 6 Saville Pl., Mile End, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Howlett, Launcelot, Norwich, Norfolk, Yarm, Yorks.; and Ipswich, Suffolk, cm and chairmaker (1780–1818). Polled at Norwich of St John Sepulchre's parish in 1780; of Yarm, Yorks. in 1784; of St John Timberhill, Norwich, in 1786; of Ipswich in 1806; and of St Swithin's parish, Norwich, in 1818. His sons, Henry Howlett, Heasman Thomas Howlett, and Charles Howlett, all cm, admitted freemen of Norwich on 31 October 1807, 15 February 1812, and 4 April 1818 respectively. Former app., Richard Houghton, admitted freeman on 24 February 1818. [Norwich poll bks and freemen reg.]
Howlett, Stephen, St Andrew's, Norwich, chairmaker (1734–56). Former app., Thomas Durrant, chairmaker, admitted freeman on 24 February 1756. [Norwich poll bks and freemen reg.]
Howlett, Thomas, London, cm (1786). [Norwich poll bk]
Howlett, Thomas, Norwich, chairmaker (1818–30). Recorded in the parishes of St John Maddermarket in 1818 and St Benedict, 1830. [Poll bks] Possibly Heasman Thomas Howlett.
Howlett, William, 19 Trippett, Hull, Yorks., furniture painter etc. (1840). Trading as a painter only, before 1840; and as a house and ship painter after 1840. [D] See Elija Howlett.
Howorth, John, Birchen Lane, Manchester, cm (1788). [D]
Howson, Charles, 15 Bradshaw St, Manchester, carver and gilder (1822–33). Trading also at 64 Hanover St, 1824–29. [D]
Howson, James, Blackwell Row, Darlington, Co. Durham, cm and joiner (1828–34). [D]
Howson, Robert, Bank, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–29). [D]
Howson, Robert, Bondgate, Darlington, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–34). [D]
Howton, Benjamin, Ludlow, Salop, u (1720). Took app. named Penny in 1720. [S of G, app. index]
Howton, Thomas, Worcester, upholder (1785). Former app., Abraham Fluck (or Fluke) admitted freeman on 17 January 1785. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hoy, Thomas, 74 Old St Rd, London, bedstead maker (1808). [D]
Hoy, Thomas Daniel, London, cm, chair manufacturer and u (1820–27). Trading at 8 Hare St, Spitalfields in 1820 and 2 Devonshire Pl., Commercial Rd, 1826–27. [D]
Hoy, W., London, furniture broker, cabinet and bedstead manufacturer (1835–39). Trading at 3 Pleasant Row, King's Cross in 1835 and 9 Lower St, Islington in 1839. [D]
Hoy, William, 5 New Inn Yd, Shoreditch, London, cabinet manufacturer and u (1820–35). [D]
Hoyle, Henry, Rochdale, Lancs., cm (1825–34). Home address given at High St in 1825. Recorded at Cheetham St in 1834. [D] See John Hoyle.
Hoyle, Isaac, Norwich, u (1753–68). Recorded at St Peter Mancroft parish in 1768. App. to Woodhouse Harmer and Paul Colombine, and admitted freeman on 3 May 1753. Took apps named Bentle in 1756; Crisp in 1757; and Driver in 1759. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [Norwich poll bk, freemen and app. reg.]
Hoyle, James, 46 Kennedy St, Manchester, carver and gilder (1836–40). [D]
Hoyle, John, Rochdale, Yorks., cm (1816–28). Trading at Cheetham St, 1816–25, and High St in 1828. [D] See Henry Hoyle.
Hoyle, John, Manchester, carver and gilder (1834–40). Trading at 19 Cooper St in 1834 and 46 Kennedy St, 1838–40. [D]
Hoyle, William, 14 Princes St, Bristol, cm (1813–25). [D]
Hubart, Adam, Wapping, London, picture frame maker (1716). Took app. named Dod in 1716. [S of G, app. index]
Hubbard, —, Wymer St, Norwich, cm (1810). [D]
Hubbard, —, Teignmouth, Devon, u (1814–29). Advertised as agent in sales of property in Exeter Flying Post, 16 June 1814; 24 July 1817 of the house of the Right Hon. Lord Clifford at Shaldon, near Teignmouth; on 12 March 1829; and 23 July 1829. Probably John Peters Hubbard.
Hubbard, —, 19 Rose & Crown Ct, Southwark, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hubbard, J. P., address unrecorded. On 23 August 1818 received £4 14s 6d by William Baldwin in full payment for a marble table he provided for Endsleigh House, near Tavistock, Devon. [Bedford Office, London] Probably John Peters Hubbard.
Hubbard, James, address unrecorded. In December 1679 he was paid £5 by the 5th Earl of Bedford (later 1st Duke) for thirteen cane walnut chairs. [Bedford Office, London]
Hubbard, James, Norwich, cm, u and chairmaker (1801–22). Trading at 12 St Andrews, Bridge St, 1801–1803, and Gun Lane in 1822. [D]
Hubbard, James, Powis St, Woolwich, London, cm (1823–38). [D]
Hubbard, James, 22 Booth St, Spitalfields, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Hubbard, John, Queen St, Bloomsbury, London, carver (1755). Notice in Public Advertiser, 13 September 1755 concerning his app., Joseph Goulding who had absented himself from his master's service, warned ‘all Persons not to harbour or employ him, for they shall be prosecuted according to law…’.
Hubbard, John, 21 Middle Moorfields, London, cm and chairmaker (1787). Insured his utensils and stock for £600 on 19 February 1787. [GL, Sun MS vol. 344, p. 129]
Hubbard, John Peters, Teignmouth, Devon, cm and u (1805– 40). Trading in the Strand, 1823–24, and Regent Pl., 1830. Advertised in Exeter Flying Post for a cabinet maker on 23 May 1805; for workmen on 5 February 1807 and 3 March 1808; and as agent in the sale of a house in Teignmouth on 30 November 1809. Declared bankrupt on 28 May 1840. [D] See Hubbard, —, and J. P. Hubbard.
Hubbard, John, 21 Wilson St, Finsbury Sq., London, u, cm and furniture warehouseman (1807–14). [D]
Hubbard, John, 14 Grubb St, Cripplegate, London, cm and broker (1810). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 7 or 9 June 1810 for £300, of which stock and utensils accounted for £210. [GL, Sun MS vol. 449, ref. 846041]
Hubbard, John, address unrecorded, cm (1810). Submitted a bill to the Duke of Northumberland in 1810 for a ‘mahogany eliptic breakfast table’ costing £2 10s; two square ones at £3 3s; a backgammon box, £1 4s; and a tea tray. [V&A archives]
Hubbard, John, Louth, Lincs., cm and joiner (1819–41). Trading at Eastgate, 1819–35, and Bridge St in 1841. [D]
Hubbard, John, address unrecorded, cm and u (1830). Sent a bill to J. S. Russell, Esq., for work done and goods supplied to Russell's yacht in 1830, totalling £16 16s. Items included, on 15 June ‘Hire of Mahogany Biddett, small Bedst.d & fuste and hair matting for D.° to the 6th Sept. 12 W'ks. at 2/6’; on 17 June, a painted floor cloth costing £2 7s 6d; on 18, a tea caddy at 13s. and a ‘stout Brussel Carpet’, £3 16s 3d and fitting it; on 19 June ‘Two Setts Mahogany Bookshelves with 4 brass plates and 4 brass Rods for Do.’, £1 1s; and on 22 June a ‘Corner Shelf for Mrs. Russell's Cabinet’, 5s 6d. J. S. Russell later changed his name to Pakington on inheriting Westwood Park, Worcs. He became 1st Lord of the Admiralty and 1st Lord Hampton. [Worcs. RO, 2309/705: 380/55 (i)]
Hubbard, John, Granby Yd, Grantham, Lincs., chairmaker and wheelwright (1841). Named in the 1841 Census. Windsor chair recorded bearing stamp of ‘HUBBARD GRANTHAM’. [Furn. Hist., 1978, pl. 49A and B]
Hubbard, William, Norwich, cm, Windsor and fancy chairmaker and dealer in Dutch rushes (1801–42). Recorded at 12 Broad St, St Giles in 1801; 12 St Giles's, c. 1803; Fisher's Lane in 1810; and Bethel St from 1822. Admitted freeman on 3 May 1803, not by apprenticeship. Former app., Edmund Drury, chair turner, admitted freeman on 24 February 1828. [D; Norwich freemen reg. and poll bks]
Hubbard, William, Watton, Norfolk, turner and chairmaker (1822–30). [D]
Hubbard, Zechariah, Hampstead, London, cm (1770). Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy in 1770 for £150 on brick, and £50 on timber. [GL, Hand in Hand MS, vol. 110, ref. 81851]
Hubbeck, Katherine, address unrecorded, upholder (1712). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 1 October 1712. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hubbersley, William, Preston, Lancs., chairmaker (1822–42). Named in the Preston Guild records in 1822 and 1842 as son of Thomas Butcher, deceased. Probably of Hubbersley & Kelley, chairmakers, Skye St, Preston, 1842. [D]
Hubbert, Thomas, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hubberts, Messrs, Westgate St, Bath, Som., cm (1812). Destruction of premises by fire on 26 December 1812 reported in Gents Mag.
Hubbock, William, Cragg, Whitby, Yorks., cm (1823). [D]
Hubie, John, Ogleforth, York, cm, joiner, carpenter and housebuilder (1823). [D]
Hubie, William, 3 Ogleforth, York, joiner and cm (1830). [D]
Huby, Henry, Lower Westwick St, Norwich, furniture broker and cm (1836). [D]
Huby, Richard, Lower Westwick St, Norwich, furniture broker and cm (1817–42). Son of Simon Huby, barber; admitted freeman on 22 November 1817. [D; Norwich freemen reg. and poll bk]
Huby, William, Norwich, cm (1818–30). Recorded in St Lawrence's parish in 1818, and St Margaret's in 1830. [Poll bks]
Huck, John, Lancaster and London, cm (1756–68). App. to G. Rawes in 1756, and admitted freeman of Lancaster, 1767–68, when stated of London. Polled at Lancaster of London in 1768. [Lancaster app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hucks, Phil., Harwich, Essex, cm (1785). Probate will dated 1785. [Wills at Chelmsford].
Hucks, William, Harwich, Essex, cm (1823–24). [D]
Hucks, William, 18 Punderson Pl., Bethnal Green Rd, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Huddesford, John, address unrecorded. Submitted a bill to Lord Leigh dated 1747–48, for ‘A Large neat Tea Board’ costing £2 2s; ‘A large Waiter’, 8s 6d, and a small one at 10s. Bill receipted by Huddesford's nephew, Richard Steane. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5]
Huddleston, Edward, Liverpool, cm (1780–1818). Addresses given at Pilkington's Ct, Leeds St in 1780, and 7 Vauxhall Rd in 1818. Petitioned freedom on servitude to John Walker, and admitted freeman on 11 September 1780. Father of John Huddleston, cm, who petitioned freedom in 1812. Took app. named William Osborne in 1810, who petitioned freedom in 1818. [D; Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Huddleston, Edward John, 24 Vernon St, Liverpool, cm (1818). Admitted freeman on 11 June 1818. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Huddleston, George, 6 Nassau St, Middlx Hospital, London, cm, u and chairmaker (1826–28). Trading in partnership with James Huddleston. [D]
Huddleston, George, 80 High Holborn, London, chair and sofa manufacturer (1829). [D]
Huddleston, George, Manchester Row, Holloway Rd, Holloway, London, cm, chair and sofa manufacturer (1838). [D]
Huddleston, James, 6 Nassau St, Middlx Hospital, London, cm, u and chairmaker (1826–39). Trading in partnership with George Huddleston, 1826–28. [D]
Huddleston, William, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1828–30). Trading at 26 Park Lane, 1828–29, and 1 Meadow Lane in 1830 also as an u. [D]
Huddlestone, John, Liverpool, cm (1811–12). Trading at 18 and 19 Smithfield St in 1811. Petitioned freedom as son of Edward Huddleston, cm, and admitted freeman on 5 October 1812. [D; Liverpool freemen reg.]
Huddon, Alexander, Headon St, London, cm (1784). [Poll bk]
Hude, Robert, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hudgebout, James, at ‘The Looking Glass’, Cornhill, London, glass grinder and cabinet seller (1704). Advertised in the press in 1704 that he was ‘selling off stock as he is leaving off trade’. [Heal] See John Burrough at the same address until c.1690.
Hudleston, —, Whitehall, London. Named in the Royal Wardrobe accounts in 1676 receiving £1 16s ‘for a chaire with Elbowes and Iron worke in them and a table to it moveable with Iron worke.’ [Conn., vol. 108, 1941, p. 168]
Hudleston, Mrs, Whitehaven, Cumb., u (d.1832). Death on 5 July 1832 ‘after only two days illness’ reported in Liverpool Mercury, 13 July.
Hudson, —, address unrecorded. On 29 July 1718 he was paid £4 3s for a japan card table supplied to the Hon. Wrey and Lady Saunderson. [Lincoln RO, Monson 10, 1/A/16]
Hudson, —, St James's St, London, u (d.1735). Death reported in contemporary newspapers. [Heal]
Hudson, —, Marylebone Way, London, carver and gilder (1771). Mentioned in a memorandum at the end of the 1771 diary of Edward Morant of Brokenhurst Park, Hants. [Owned by E. Morant, Royden Manor, Hants.]
Hudson, Mrs, Durtwick St, North Shields, Northumb., cm and joiner (1827). Widow of Andrew Hudson. [D] See John Hudson at this address.
Hudson, David, St Nicholas's parish, Bristol, u (1715–22). [Poll bks]
Hudson, Edward, Lancaster, cm (1802–05). Announced in Lancaster Gazette, 20 November 1802, that ‘he intends, in a few days, to commence carrying on the above business, in all its branches, at the shop on the Green Area, Lancaster, lately occupied by Mr. Jeremiah Sowerby; and hopes, by employing the best workmen, and charging the lowest prices, to merit a share of the patronage of the public. E. Hudston has to let, and may be entered upon immediately, the house late in the possession of the said Mr. Sowerby, on the Green Area.’ Declared bankrupt by 27 April 1805, when the sale of his household and stock furniture was advertised in Lancaster Gazette. Stock consisted of ‘feather beds, bedsteads and hangings; mahogany card tables, chairs and corner cupboards, writing desks, chests of drawers, swing and pier looking glasses, carpets, and a variety of other house and kitchen furniture. Also a large quantity of New Furniture; consisting of wardrobes, toilets, liquor cases, tea caddies, clocks and cases, looking glasses, dining tables, card tables, and a variety of other new goods’; as well as mahogany and other timber, benches, tools and brasswork.
Hudson, Edward, High Wycombe, Bucks., caner (b.c. 1816–41). Aged 25 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hudson, Elizabeth, 7 Richmond St, Salford, Lancs., u (1836). [D]
Hudson, Ellin, address unrecorded, joiner and/or chairmaker (1691). Provided a chest of drawers, two armed cane chairs and twelve other chairs, costing a total of £8 2s 6d to Temple Newsam House, Leeds. [Furn. Hist., 1967]
Hudson, Francis, York, joiner (1709–33). Trading in Stonegate in 1729. Son of Francis Hudson, whitesmith; admitted freeman by patrimony in 1709. Took apps named John Busfield on 4 April 1716; Anthony Busfield on 5 October 1719; John Hagues on 11 February 1723; Watt Myers on 7 September 1730; and William Varley on 29 September 1733. Advertised sale in York Courant, 5 August 1729, at his premises ‘at the sign of the Buroe, Coffin and Chair, in Stonegate, nigh the Minster-Gates, York, Cabinets of all Kinds, Cane Chairs, Bass-bottom'd Chairs, Leather-bottom'd Chairs, and Wood-bottome'd Chairs, Dutch Tables, Card Tables &c. Corner Cupboards, Desks and Book-Cases, and all other Sorts of Joiner Work: Likewise all sorts of Baskets, and Basket Work.’ [Surtees Soc., vol. 102, p. 197; York app. reg.]
Hudson, George, address unrecorded. Supplied Charles II with two looking-glasses twenty-five inches in length, described at the time as ‘large’. [Wills, Looking-Glasses]
Hudson, James, Tickhill, Yorks., cm (1731–54). Took app. named Jos. Wood of Milton in 1731 for £6 6s. Possibly the James Hudson who subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [S of G, app. index]
Hudson, James, Newcastle, upholder (1734). [Poll bk]
Hudson, James, 170 Pilgrim St and 50 Carliol St, Newcastle, joiner and cm (1827–29). [D]
Hudson, John, St Anne's Westminster, London, cm and u (1747–58). Declared bankrupt with his partner, Lawrence Rudy(e)ard, Gents Mag., August 1747; and Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 1 December 1758, when they are described as ‘late of Thrift Street [Frith St, Soho], in the parish of St. Ann’.
Hudson, John, Salisbury, Wilts., cm (1755). App. to John and Thomas Snow, cm, of Salisbury, on 27 August 1755, by indenture for £31 10s. [Wilts. Apps and their Masters]
Hudson, John, Green St, Leicester Fields, London, carver and gilder (1777). Insured his house for £100 in 1777. [GL, Sun MS vol. 254, p. 497]
Hudson, John, Newcastle, u (1777–92). Former apps admitted freemen: Ralph Wightman on 25 February 1777, and Lancelot Bourne on 12 July 1792. [Newcastle freemen reg.]
Hudson, John, Durtwick St, North Shields, Northumb., cm (1828–34). Recorded at no. 34 in 1834. [D] See Mrs Hudson.
Hudson, John, 7 Nelson Pl., Old Kent Rd, London, cm (1835– 37). [D]
Hudson, John, 13 Humber St, Hull, Yorks., chairmaker (1835). John F. Hudson was trading at no. 12 as a furrier in 1838. [D]
Hudson, Joseph snr, London, freeman upholder (1715–d. by 1732/33). Took app. named Thomas Doughty, 1715–33. His son, Joseph Hudson jnr, admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co., 1732–33. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hudson, Joseph jnr, address unrecorded, upholder (1732–33). Son of Joseph Hudson, upholder of London; admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 7 March 1732/33. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Possibly:
Hudson, Joseph, next door to ‘The Fountain Tavern’, Southwark, London, u (1733). Insured household goods and stock in trade in his house only for £1,000 on 25 July 1753. [GL, Sun MS vol. 38, ref. 61462]
Hudson, Joseph, 39 Wardour St, London, cm and upholder (1785). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 3 May 1785 for £50 on household goods, and £150 on utensils, stock and goods in trust. [GL, Sun MS vol. 328, p. 205]
Hudson, Joseph, 21 St Paul's Churchyard, London, cm and u (1785–d.1788). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 31 December 1785 for £800, utensils, stock and goods in trust accounting for £500. Death reported in Gents Mag., July 1788. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 335, p. 127]
Hudson, Joseph, Newcastle, joiner and cm (1811–24). Trading at Ouseburn in 1811 and Pilgrim St in 1824. [D]
Hudson, Joseph, 4 St Ann's Terr., Liverpool, cm (1835). [D]
Hudson, Joseph, Henry & Henry, 257 Whitechapel Rd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hudson, Joseph, High Wycombe, Bucks., caner (b.c. 1816–41). Aged 25 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Hudson, Richard, address unrecorded, upholder (1736–44). Son of Edward Hudson, yeoman of Haverford West, Pembroke, S. Wales; app. to Daniel Demee on 26 January 1736. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 1 February 1743/44. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hudson, Richard, 4 High St, Marylebone, London, cm (1785– 86). Took out Sun Insurance policies on 2 May 1785 for £50 on household goods; and on 14 July 1786 for £200 on house and shed in Hanover Rd. [GL, Sun MS vol. 328, p. 204; vol. 331, p. 267]
Hudson, Robert, Westminster, London, cm (1713). Took app. named John Maunders, son of John, late of Southwark, surgeon, for £10. [V&A archives]
Hudson, Robert, address unrecorded, cm (1754). Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754.
Hudson, Solomon, house and manufactory at 16 Gt Titchfield St, Cavendish Sq., London, carver and gilder, cm and upholder (1780–93). [D] Clearly a skilful and highlyesteemed craftsman, he received prestigious patronage, and carried out work according to Robert Adam's designs. Simple trade card, c.1791, with anthemion border is in the Heal Coll., BM. Of 16 Litchfield St, he took out a Sun Insurance policy on 10 April 1787 for £1,700 on household goods, utensils and stock in workshops behind his house. [GL, Sun MS vol. 342, ref. 529400] He subscribed to George Richardson's Treatise on the Five Orders of Architecture, 1787.
WEST WYCOMBE PARK, BUCKS. Hudson supplied lookingglass frames for which he was paid £42 on 25 November 1780. [James Lees-Milne, West Wycombe Park, Bucks.]
NEW BURLINGTON ST, LONDON. Carried out much clearly sumptuous work for Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End, Essex, carving and gilding picture frames and architectural features at his London house. In 1781 he was paid £160 for two pier glasses and frames; and on 27 May 1783 he receipted a long bill for £107 10s 4d. This included, on 23 December 1782, ‘4 Oval straining frames for Mr. Rebecca's pictures’, costing 10s, and sent to Audley End; on 28 December regilding the ogee moulding in the Drawing Room at New Burlington St; on 31 December ‘Carving of 4 rich Garandoles from Mr. Adam's designs, Gilt in Burnish Gold, with 2 branches to Each Compleat’, costing £31 4s; and ‘Carving 4 Rich Ornaments with 4 Oval frames Gilt in Burnish Gold Compleat’ and fixing, £32 3s. In 1783 Hudson charged £16 for ‘Carving a Large Oval Carlomoral picture frame for Lady Griffins portrait Gilt in Burnish Gold wood-work and Turning Compleat’; and ‘Carving a Large Ornament of Drapery festoons with other enrichments Gilt in Burnish Gold from Mr. Adam Design’, for £6 16s 6d. On 18 February 1783 he charged 11s for ‘One Man's time & Materials making good the Gilding of all the Chairs & Sophas in Drawing Room’; and on 17 May, for ‘Carving of two large Circular picture frames, Gilt in Burnish Gold, Turning & Wood work Comp.t’. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A 39/4; A41/5; A212] Hudson is also recorded as having supplied a ‘rich picture frame 4 ins broad to a pattern gilt in burnish gold wood and complete for the View of Audley End House’, costing £5 10s 6d in 1789. [J. D. Williams, Audley End, the Restoration of 1762–1797, p. 40] As Lord Howard, Sir John Griffin Griffin continued to patronise Solomon Hudson, commissioning three carved and gilt picture frames from him for his London House in New Burlington St in 1790, totalling £15 13s 3d. [Essex RO, D/ DBy/A50/4]
BLICKLING HALL, NORFOLK. Solomon Hudson is recorded as having supplied the Earl of Buckinghamshire with large gilt pier and chimney glasses, frames for tapestry and two fulllength portraits of George III and Queen Charlotte in June 1782. His bill totalled £409 6s 6d. [Nat. Trust Guide to Blickling Hall, p. 38; Wills, Looking-Glasses; Heal]
In 1793 Hudson retired from trade, and his remaining stock in trade was sold by Mr Christie at 16 Gt Titchfield St on 12 and 13 June. The catalogue listed his stock, which included ‘Pictures, fine prints by Hogarth, framed and glazed, loose drawings, prints, books, and a variety of valuable effects… large glasses of distinguished magnitude, superb girandoles and candelabras; beautiful inlaid pier tables, writing desks, teaboards, chests, caddies, excellent mahogany tables of various denominations; dressing stands, glasses, escritoires, and a profusion of neat articles in the cabinet, carving and gilding branches, finished in a stile of superior workmanship, from the most approved designs of the principal nobility. Also a large quantity of old picture frames, carved ornaments, work benches, old iron, lead &c…’. [Christie's archives, 8 King St, London; C. Life, 6 October 1950, p. 1090] He is perhaps the Hudson, carver of London named in the account book of Rev. Robert Thelwall of Redbourne Hall, Lincs., on 22 November 1772, receiving £95. [Lincoln RO, RED 3/1/4/6/2] He is also perhaps the ‘S.H., carver’, who published Twelve New Designs for Frames for Looking-Glasses, Pictures &c., on 3 February 1779. He has been recorded, apparently erroneously, as Stephen Hudson.
Hudson, T., York, cm (1826). Declared bankrupt, London Gazette, 18 March 1826.
Hudson, Thomas, Sunderland, Co. Durham, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hudson, Thomas, 13 Shorely St, Burnley, Lancs., cm (1824). [D]
Hudson, Thomas, 21 Little Wild St, London, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Hudson, Timothy Smithson, Hull, Yorks., painter and gilder (1838–42). Trading at 3 Fenkle St, 1838–39, and 9 Sewer Lane in 1840. [D]
Hudson, William, Newcastle, u (1740–80). Admitted freeman in 1740. Former apps admitted freemen: Joseph Furnass on 10 October 1763; Thomas Crosby on 24 August 1765; Gilbert Liddell on 8 October 1774; and John Eltringham on 12 September 1780. His sons William and Edward admitted freemen by patrimony on 10 October 1774 and 25 February 1777 respectively. Advertised in Newcastle Courant, 16 June 1770, that he ‘sells all kinds of Cabinet work & chairs & he has taken a convenient room in Alnwick where attendance will be given every Saturday for sale of the same — Newton on the Moor, near Alnwick.’ [Newcastle freemen reg. and poll bks]
Hudson, William, Rochdale Rd, Bacup, Lancs., cm (1825–28). [D]
Hudson, William, Louth, Lincs., cm and joiner (1819–28). Recorded at Eastgate, 1819–22, and Maiden Row, 1826–28. [D]
Hudson, William, Oldham Lane, Oldham, Lancs., cm (1834). [D]
Hudson, William, Wetherby, Yorks., joiner and/or cm, auctioneer (1837). [D]
Hudson & Co., London, cm (1746). Named with Messrs Campbell-Bruce in the London account of the Rt Hon. Earl of Stear, receiving payments. [Scottish RO, GD135/Box 55/31]
Hudson & Corney, 4 and 13 Broad St, Soho, London, upholders and cm (1790–1811). [D] Late George III satinwood secrétaire-cabinet recorded, with three-quarter galleried top and two narrow glazed cupboard doors backed by pleated silk above the panelled fall-flap enclosing short drawers, the base with a drawer on square tapering legs joined by a concavefronted platform shelf, bearing the trade label of ‘Hudson and Corney, CABINET MAKERS, Upholsterers, UNDERTAKERS &c. At their Manufactories and Ware Rooms, N.° 4 and N.° 13 Broad Street, Soho. NB. Rout Chairs &c. let on hire.’ Inscription is inside oval Neo-classical frame, illustrated by two simple ladder and splat-back chairs. [Christie's, 29 November 1979, lot 59 and 11 June 1981, lot 103] Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793, and Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Named in his list of master cabinet makers, 1803. Hudson, cm of Broad St, took out a Sun Insurance policy on 14 May 1804 for £100 on a warehouse belonging to John Bayford. [GL, Sun MS vol. 431, ref. 762292]
Hudspeth, George, 17 Pilgrim St, Gateshead, cm and furniture broker (1824–38). [D]
Hudspeth, George, John & William, Dog Bank, Gateshead, cm and furniture brokers (1827). [D]
Hudspeth, John, Dog Bank, and 34 High St, Gateshead, cm and furniture broker (1824–34). [D]
Hudspeth, John & Thomas, Newcastle, cm and furniture brokers (1834). [D]
Hudspeth, Rachel, Dog Bank, Gateshead, cm and furniture broker (1824–33). [D]
Hudspeth, Robert, 179 High St, Gateshead, Co. Durham, cm (1833). [D]
Hudspeth, Thomas, Dog Bank, Gateshead, Co. Durham, cm and furniture broker (1833–34). Trading at no. 10 in 1834. [D]
Hudspeth, William, Roddam's Ct, Gateshead, Co. Durham, cm (1828–29). [D]
Hües, Michel, address unrecorded, gilder (1703). Rendered an account for £56 3s 10d to the 2nd Duke of Bedford for making and gilding armchairs, chairs, stools and walnut mouldings. [Bedford Office, London] Possibly:
Huet, Michael, address unrecorded, dealer in lacquer (1695). Supplied picture frames to Petworth House, Sussex. [C. Life, 4 September 1980, p. 800; Apollo, May 1977, p. 361]
Hufton, William, address unrecorded, u (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hugall, Thomas, William St, Bishop Wearmouth, Sunderland, Co. Durham, cm (1823–27). Notice in Durham County Advertiser, 30 August 1823, that the partnership between Thomas Hugall and Thomas Armstrong, joiners and cm, had been dissolved. ‘The businesses will in future be carried on by each partner individually’. [D]
Huges, John, address unrecorded, u (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Huggett, John, address unrecorded, upholder (1725–60). Son of John Huggett, blacksmith of Brockham, Surrey. App. to Benjamin Robinson on 20 January 1725, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 May 1736. Took app. named James Buggs, 1750–60. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Huggett, John, London, chairmaker (1803–11). Recorded at Borough Rd, 1803–04; Bow Rd in 1808; and as Huggert in 1811. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. [D; PRO, IRI/37]
Huggett, John, 11 Charlotte St, Old St Rd, London, chair and sofa manufacturer (1827–28). [D]
Huggins, Henry, Norwich, cm, u and chairmaker (1794–1836). Trading at Middle Westwick, opposite ‘The Duke of York’ in 1810; Upper Westwick St, 1822 and 1836; and St Benedict St, 1830. Former apps admitted freemen cm: James Rackham on 3 May 1826; Francis Ryder on 24 February 1828; and Paul Springall Cubbitt on 24 February 1830. [D; Norwich freemen reg. and poll bks]
Huggins, John, Coombe St, Exeter, Devon, cm (1838). Daughter Ann Lovering bapt. at St Mary Major on 1 April 1838. [PR (bapt.)]
Huggins, Miss Maria, Norwich, u (1839–42). Trading at St Andrew's, Broad St, St John's Maddermarket in 1839, and 10 St Andrew's St in 1842. [D]
Huggins, Richard, Bristol, upholder (1801–24). Recorded at St Augustine's Back in 1801; no. 13, 1805–12; and 21 Orchard St in 1824. Declared bankrupt, Exeter Flying Post, 11 October 1804. [D]
Hughes, —, address unrecorded, cm (1767). Supplied bed and furniture for Audley End, Essex, costing £52 on 30 May 1767. [V&A archives]
Hughes, —, London (?). The household expenses of the Digby family included payment in 1774 of £13 6s to ‘Mr. Hughes… For Furniture sent to Sherborne last year’. [Sherbourne Castle papers]
Hughes, —, London, u (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hughes, —, New St, Devonport, Devon, cm (1814). [D]
Hughes, —, address unrecorded. In 1838 supplied ‘new furniture’ for Stafford House, London, costing £64. [Staffs. RO, D593/R/1/26/8]
Hughes, Alice, Mill Lane, Liverpool, u (1834–39). Recorded at no. 5, 1804–05, no. 7 in 1837, and no. 12 in 1839. [D]
Hughes, Benjamin, Busby St, near Church Row, Church St, Bethnal Green, London, broker of household goods and cm (1812). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 28 December 1812 for £400 of which £20 accounted for stock and utensils in workshop, and £120 for a house in Brick Lane, Spitalfields. [GL, Sun MS vol. 455, ref. 877383]
Hughes, Daniel, Wheelock St, Middlewich, Cheshire, cm (1828–34). [D]
Hughes, Edward, 14 Stamford St, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs., joiner and cm (1828–34). [D]
Hughes, Edward, Summer Row, Handsworth, Birmingham, cm and chairmaker (1828–35). Recorded at no. 2, 1828–30. [D]
Hughes, George, Whitchurch, Salop, cm and chairmaker (1828–40). Recorded at Claypit St, 1828–35. Named in a list of shareholders of the Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Co. in Chester Chronicle and North Wales Advertiser, 14 August 1840. [D]
Hughes, Henry, Little Berrington St, Hereford, chairmaker and turner (1830). [D]
Hughes, Howell, London, upholder (1772–79). Son of Thomas Hughes, Gent. of Glasbury, Radnor. App. to Herbert Pyefinch, spectacle maker, on 9 March 1772, and John Phillips on 14 December 1775. Discharged by judgement of the Chamberlain, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 2 July 1779, in which year his address is given at 20 Fleet St, Salesbury Ct. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hughes, Hugh, address unrecorded, upholder (1722–30). Son of Hugh Hughes, yeoman of Brombo, Denbigh. App. to Michael Bradshaw on 18 October 1722, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 7 October 1730. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hughes, Hugh, Witton St, Northwich, Cheshire, cm (1822). [D]
Hughes, James, London, cm (1793). Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hughes, James, Liverpool, u (b.1778–d.1801). Notice in Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 25 September 1801 reads: ‘DIED On Thursday se'nnight Mr. James Hughes, upholsterer, aged 23, son of Mrs. Sarah Ryan, widow, Tarletonstreet, & on Friday last Mr. John Hughes, Ornament Painter, aged 26, brother to the above. Their faithful service to their masters & sobriety of manners, rendered them truly exemplary, & their loss is regretted by all who knew them & severely felt by their disconsolate mother.’
Hughes, James, Gt Brook St, Birmingham, gilder (1818). [D]
Hughes, James, 27 Oldham Rd, Manchester, chairmaker (1828). [D]
Hughes, James, Park St, Chester, cm (1833). Son of the late James Hughes, gardener, his death on 3 April 1833 ‘after a protracted illness’ was reported in Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales, 6 April.
Hughes, Job, Derby, cm (1800–22). Took app. named William Bakewell in 1800. [Leicester freemen rolls] Recorded at King St, 1818–22. [D]
Hughes, John, Bristol, u (1715). [Poll bk]
Hughes, John, Bath, Som., upholder (1774). [Bristol poll bk]
Hughes, John, Brewer St, London, cm (1774). [Bristol poll bk]
Hughes, John, parish of St James, Bristol, upholder (1781–84). [Poll bks]
Hughes, John, Liverpool, chairmaker (1790–1829). Addresses given at back of 10 Fontenoy St in 1790; 5 behind Haymarket, with manufactory at 19–21 Haymarket, 1807–13; 13 Haymarket, 1813–14; nos 21–25, 1814–16; 18 Trowbridge St in 1821; and 21–23 Clayton St, 1827–29. [D]
Hughes, John, Market Harborough, Leics., u and broker (1810). [D]
Hughes, John & Outhwaite, 23 St Paul's Churchyard, London, u (1813–16). [D]
Hughes, John, Liverpool, cm (1816). Petitioned freedom on servitude to John Ward Turner, and admitted freeman on 7 June 1816. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hughes, John, Stamford St, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs., joiner and cm (1828). [D]
Hughes, John, 20 King St, Derby, cm and u (1828–35). [D]
Hughes, John F., 138 Westgate St, Gloucester, cm and u (1839– 40). [D]
Hughes, Joseph, Eaton St, Liverpool, cm (1818–29). Trading at no. 22 in 1818; no. 8 in 1823; and 61 in 1829. [D] See Thomas Hughes.
Hughes, Joseph, Goswell St Rd, London, upholder and undertaker (1820–35). Trading at no. 11 in 1820; no. 26 in 1821; no. 43 in 1825; and 11 Goswell Rd in 1835. [D]
Hughes, Joseph, London, cm (1826). [Hereford poll bk]
Hughes, Patrick, ‘opposite ye Royal Hospital in ye Market Place, Greenwich’, London, cm, u etc. (1778–c.1780). Trade card, c.1780, shows Chippendale-style furniture, elaborate bed, break-front bookcase, serpentine cabinet, chest of drawers and two chairs. Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., 1778. [Heal Coll., BM]
Hughes, Peter, 19 Rose St, Preston, Lancs., cm (1825). [D]
Hughes, Richard, St Peter, Bristol, cm (1754). [Poll bk]
Hughes, Richard, Mardol, Shrewsbury, cm (1796). Named in the Shrewsbury burgess roll as brother of Thomas Hughes in 1796.
Hughes, Richard, Willow St, Oswestry, Salop, cm and joiner (1828). [D]
Hughes, Robert, see Nicholas Morel & Robert Hughes.
Hughes, Robert, Liverpool, cm (1804–39). Addresses given at 76 Stanley St, Dale St in 1804; 6 Casey St in 1813; 31 Bispham St in 1835; and 10 Grenville St North in 1839. [D]
Hughes, Robert, 115 Piccadilly, opposite Green Park, London, undertaker, u and cm to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (1827–39). Submitted a bill to the Rt Hon. Lord Gwydir, receipted on 5 June 1827. Bill totalled £17 14s and included ‘a Mahogany Boot and Shoe Horse with a Low Shelf and Brass Handle, including a Brown Holland Curtain to Hang over the Top to keep Dust from Shoes’, costing £1 6s on 20 March; ‘a Large Handsome Mahogany Bergere with High Scroll Back …Damaged…the Seat and Stuft Elbows Covered in Green Morocco finished with Silk Tufts’ on 14 April; and ‘6 Small Light Chairs with Carved Tops and Twisted Spindles in the Back, Stained and Polished, Pink and White Willow Seats’, costing £6 12s on 11 May. A further bill to Lord Gwydir listed ‘a French Circular Table de Nuit in Fine Mahogany Highly Polished & Marble Slab’, costing £3 3s on 15 December 1827; two cushions for Lord Gwydir's easy chair, covered with green leather, on 20 December; and a ‘Tripod Flower Stand with Plinth Frieze & Feet in Fine Mahogany Highly Polished Supported by 3 Brass Columns Statuary Marble Slab Green Pan & Wire Work’, ornamented ‘with 6 Ormolu Patras’, costing £8 4s on 3 June 1828. [D; Lincoln RO, 2 ANC 6/202/65 and 78]
Hughes, Robert, 24 Long Alley, Finsbury, London, cm (1835– 39). [D]
Hughes, Samuel, 8 St John's Pl., Liverpool, chairmaker (1811). [D]
Hughes, Samuel, Liverpool, u (1819). App. to Bartholomew Tyrer in 1819. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Hughes, Samuel, 18 Bryam St, Liverpool, chair and bedstead manufactory (1823). [D]
Hughes, T., Cheltenham, Glos., cm (1839–40). [D] See Thomas Hughes.
Hughes, Thomas, Mardol, Shrewsbury, cm (1796). Named in the Shrewsbury burgess roll as brother of Richard Hughes in 1796.
Hughes, Thomas, Birmingham, cm (1800–35). Addresses given at 27 Moor St in 1800 and Gt Hampton St, 1816–35, no. 52 in 1835. [D]
Hughes, Thomas, Liverpool, cm (1818–34). Trading at Eaton St, 1818–23, and 4 Rose Sq., Rose Hill in 1834. [D] See Joseph Hughes.
Hughes, Thomas, Gloucester, cm and chairmaker (1820). [D]
Hughes, Thomas, Liverpool, rosewood stainer and painter (b.1799–d.1830). Death aged 31, ‘much respected’, reported in Liverpool Mercury, 15 October 1830.
Hughes, Thomas, 18 Clarence St, Cheltenham, Glos., cm and u (1839). [D]
Hughes, Timothy, 27 Devon St, Liverpool, cm (1839). [D]
Hughes, Walter, College Green, Bristol, cm, paper hanging warehouseman and house agent (1835–40). Trading at no. 35, 1835–36; nos 35–36, 1837–39; and as Walter Hughes & Co. at no. 34 in 1840. [D] See William Hughes.
Hughes, William, Liverpool, cm (1786–96). App. to Robert Copeland in 1786, and admitted freeman on 25 May 1796. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hughes, William, Liverpool, cm (1816–d. by 1835). App. to John Mears, and admitted freeman on 7 June 1816. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hughes, William, Willow St, Oswestry, Salop, cm (1822–28). [D]
Hughes, William, Bristol, cm (1834–40). Trading at 35 College Green in 1834, and 33 King St, Queen Sq., 1839–40. [D] See Walter Hughes.
Hughes, William, Doctor's-fields, Maidstone, Kent, cm (1837–38). [Poll bks]
Hughes, William & Richard, Hatton Gdn, Liverpool, timber merchants, joiners and cm (1837–39). Trading at no. 4, and also 41 Stanley St in 1837; and 7 Hatton Gdns in 1839. [D]
Hughes & Son, Hackney Rd, London, cm (1826–27). [D]
Hughgill, John, Wibsey, Bradford, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hulbeart, Thomas, at ‘The Ship & Anchor’, over against Gun Yard, Houndsditch, London, u and cm (1689–90). Advertised his business in contemporary newspapers: ‘Where you may be furnished with several sorts of lin'd beds as Velvet, Damask, Mohair and Camblet … already standing up with silk quilts suitable. Likewise Screwtores, Tables, Stands, Looking-glasses of Japan or other work as also TapestryHangings of several sorts.’ [Heal]
Hulbert, Edwin, Bristol, cm (1831–35). Addresses given at 2 St James's Terr., St James's Sq. in 1831; 27 Milk St, 1832– 34; and 19 Broadmead in 1835. [D]
Hulbert, Messrs, Bath, Som., u and cm (1819–26). Addresses given at 24 Westgate St and 8 Kingsmead St in 1819 and 8 Quiet St in 1826. [D]
Hulett, Peter, Little Bartholomew Close, London, frame maker gilder (c.1760). His trade card features a Mannerist strapwork cartouche flanked by terms and centring on masks, framing inscription. [Heal]
Hull, —, Radcliff Highway, with house at Peckham, London, ‘Eminent cabinet-maker and glass seller’ (d.1743). [Harris, Old English Furniture, p. 24]
Hull, Charles, 2 Newman St, Oxford St, London, u and cm (1820). [D]
Hull, Christopher, Embsay, near Skipton, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Hull, Edwin, Devonshire Sq., Loughborough, Leics., cm (1840). [D]
Hull, Henry & Son, High St, Newmarket, Suffolk, u and cm (1839). [D]
Hull, James, address unrecorded, cm (1737). Submitted a bill dated 28 September 1737 to Temple Newsam House, Leeds, for two mahogany tables costing £3 2s 6d, one dining table for £2 4s, and ‘One Frame for a Large Cabinet’, £1 15s 6d. [Furn. Hist., 1967]
Hulland, Samuel, Quay St, Worcester, cm (1835). Admitted freeman on 1 December 1835. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hullard, Thomas, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs., cm (1834). [D]
Hullard, Thomas, Hanford Bridge, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., cm and chairmaker (1834). [D]
Hulley, James, St Mark's Lane, Newark, Notts., carver and gilder (1828). [D]
Hully, Christopher, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records in 1808 working on a mangle. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/99, p. 1850]
Hulme, Joseph, 25 Whitecross Bank, Manchester, u (1825). [D]
Hulme, Joseph Hilton, Salford and Manchester, cm and u (1828–40). Trading at 136 Chapel St, Salford, 1829–33; no. 138, 1836–39; and 34 Moseley St, Manchester in 1840. [D]
Hulme, Thomas, 23 Market Pl., Manchester, carver and gilder (1838–40). [D]
Hulme, William, 43 Thomas St, Manchester, cm (1829). [D]
Hulms, John, Nantwich, Cheshire, timber merchant and cm (1781). [D]
Hulse, Charles, Tunstall, Staffs., joiner, chairmaker and cm (1818–35). Recorded at Market Pl. as cm and u, 1828–35. [D]
Hulse, Henry, St Martin's St, Birmingham, u (1830–35). Trading at no. 3 in 1830 and no. 5 in 1835, also as a paper hanger. [D]
Hulston, John, Worcester St, Birmingham, cm (1835–39). Listed at no. 35 in 1835 and no. 34 in 1839. [D]
Hulton, Abraham, Walsall, Staffs., cm (1834). [D]
Hulton, Joseph, address unrecorded, upholder (1706–18). Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. on 31 July 1706. Took app. named Samuel Siddall, 1711–18. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hulton, Robert, facing the Hay Market, Pall Mall, Westminster, London, picture framer (1720). Insured goods and merchandise in his house on 23 July 1720. [GL, Sun MS vol. 12, ref. 191999] Possibly:
Hulton, Robert, address unrecorded. On 21 October 1743 receipted a bill submitted to Lord Monson for £1 15s for cleaning and mending pictures and providing ‘A Peartree Frame with a Gilt San.g’. [Lincoln RO, Monson 12]
Humberston, J., Baldock, Herts., cm, u and undertaker. Trade card, c.1820–30, is illustrated with elaborately-draped curtains, tip-up breakfast table, pole firescreen, sofa, chair and armchair. [Heal Coll., BM]
Humberstone, James, Milk St, Bristol, coach and cabinet carver (1818–40). Trading at no. 53, 1818–19, and no. 52, 1820–40. [D]
Humberstone, L., 15 Dighton St, Bristol, cabinet carver (1820). [D]
Humberstone, Matthew, Bristol, carpenter, cm and undertaker (1829–40). Trading at Hope Chapel Hill, near Dowry Sq., 1829–35; 6 Dowry Sq., 1826–28; and Green St, 1839–40. [D]
Humberstone, Thomas Garland, Bristol, cabinet carver (1815–19). Trading at Moon St, Black Fields in 1818; 15 Upper Maudlin St, 1816–17; and 15 Dighton St in 1819. [D]
Humble, Messrs., Newcastle, cm (1833–37). Supplied £1,650 worth of furniture and fittings for Lilburn Tower, Northumb., between 1833–37, made according to the designs of the architect. [C. Life, 8 November 1973, p. 1443]
Humble, H. G., Blackett St, Newcastle, carver and gilder (1838). [D]
Humble, John, address unrecorded. In 1828 supplied a set of heavily carved elm dining room furniture, consisting of a table, ten chairs, two armchairs and a cellaret, to Nunnykirk House, Northumb. The cellaret is of sarcophagus form, carved with gadrooning and acanthus decoration, and supported on lion-paw feet. The chairs have backs formed of two attenuated acanthus scrolls connecting a central palmette splat with plain top rail and acanthus cresting. The front legs take the form of consoles. A letter from Humble requesting payment mentions also drawing room furniture. [Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, photographic archive]
Humble, Thomas & Henderson, Jonathan, Strand, London, cm and u (1788–95). Trading at no. 424 in 1788. Notices regarding bankruptcy appeared in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 3 November 1794, and Billinge's Liverpool Advertiser, 27 April 1795. [D]
Humble & Hartshorn, 20 Knightsbridge, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hume, —, address unrecorded. Provided furniture to Belvoir Castle, Lincs., early in the 19th century according to Wyatt's letters. [C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Late Georgian, p. 138]
Hume, James, 38 High St, Wapping, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hume, John, Wellingborough, Northants., cm (1823–30). Listed at Market Pl. in 1823 and Broad Green in 1830. [D]
Hume, John, Wooler, Northumb., joiner and cm (1827). [D]
Hume, Joseph, 43 Thomas St, Manchester, cm (1832–33). [D]
Hume, Robert, London, carver, gilder and cm (1808–40). Addresses given at 11 Crown St, St Giles's in 1808; 34 Gt Titchfield St, Cavendish Sq., 1809–11; 4 Gt Portland St, 1817; 4 Little Portland St in 1820; and 65 Berners St in 1837. Possibly the Robert Hume who is recorded in 1828 as furniture maker and agent to William Beckford. Possibly of Robert Hume & Son, carvers and gilders, who supplied pictures and carried out repairs and gilding, and carved and gilt frames at Charlecote Park, Warks., in 1829–32 for £100; and in 1836 for £126 16s 6d. Their bill was receipted in 1840. [D; Burlington, December 1980, p. 822; Warwick RO, L6/ 1118] Possibly of:
Hume & Son, London, carvers and gilders, cm (1820–35). Trading at 53 Wigmore St in 1820 and 56 Berners St in 1829. [D]
Hume, William, Manchester, timber merchant and cm (1831). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 30 September 1831.
Hummel, John Philip, 5 Brewer St, Golden Sq., London, cm (1808). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 31 March 1808 for £800 on his house. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 445, ref. 814917]
Humphery, John, Charing, Kent, u and barber (1776). Insured his house for £200 in 1776. [GL, Sun MS vol. 253, p. 532]
Humpherys, William, Audley St, London, carver (1749). [Poll bk]
Humphrey, C., 63 North St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1827). [D]
Humphrey, George, 63 North St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1826). [D] See George Humphreys.
Humphrey, George, 2 Edward Terr., Kensington, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Humphrey, Henry, Honiton, Devon, cm and u (1808). Advertised sale by auction on leaving the district in Sherborne Mercury, 22 August 1808.
Humphrey, J. N., Brixton, London, u and cm (1838). [D]
Humphrey, John, 4 Elder St, London, cm and chairmaker (1784). [D]
Humphrey, Joseph, Woodall Pl., North Brixton, London, cm (1835). [D]
Humphrey, Mary, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1786–1841). Aged 55 at the time of the 1841 Census.
Humphrey, Robert, Charing, Kent, u (1793). [D]
Humphrey(s), William, address unrecorded, upholder (1711–13). Took app. named John Bristow of London on 7 November 1711 for £35 15s; Edward Slatford of Oxford on 2 July 1712 for £53 15s; and Anthony Brown of Hereford on 7 October 1713. [PRO, app. reg., IRI/1 and 2] Possibly:
Humphrey, William, Fetter Lane, London, u (1732). Declared bankrupt, Gents Mag., May 1732. See William Humphreys and William Humphry.
Humphrey, William, Brighton Pl., Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1831–43). Recorded at no. 10 in 1839 and no. 15, date unspecified. Children by wife Sarah bapt.: William on 10 March 1831; Sarah Elizabeth on 17 August 1832; Cornelius on 9 February 1834; George on 9 April 1835; Benjamin on 20 November 1836; and Harriet on 15 April 1838. [D; poll bks; PR (bapt.)]
Humphreys, Arthur, Bridge St, Kington, Herefs., cm and u (1840). [D]
Humphreys, Charles, Castle St, the Potteries, Staffs., cm (1818). [D]
Humphreys, Charles, 1 Bear Lane, Blackfriar's Rd, London, carver (1827–29). [D]
Humphreys, George, Worcester, joiner and cm (1761). App. to Robert Bele (?), joiner and cm; admitted freeman on 12 January 1761. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Humphreys, George, Lewes, Sussex, journeyman cm (1826–41). Recorded in North St, date unspecified, and Spring Gdns in 1837. [Poll bks]
Humphreys, George, 114 North St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1839). [D] See George Humphrey.
Humphreys, Gwynn, Church St, Kington, Herefs., cm and u (1840). [D]
Humphreys, J., St Paul's Churchyard, London, u (1748–49). Appears to have acted as auctioneer in sale of stock of Radford, retiring toyman. [General Advertiser, 30 November 1748, 10 January 1749]
Humphreys, John, White Lion St, London, cm and chairmaker (1776–88). Trading at no. 4 in 1788. Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1776 for £700 of which £510 accounted for utensils, stock, sawpit and shed. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 253, p. 389]
Humphreys, John, parish of St Nicholas, Hereford, joiner and cm (1820). Admitted freeman on 17 July 1820. [Hereford freemen reg.]
Humphreys, John jnr, parish of All Saints, Hereford, joiner and cm (1832). App. to John Humphreys, joiner and cm of Hereford. Admitted freeman on 13 July 1832. [Hereford freemen reg.]
Humphreys, John, Church Lane, Walthamstow, London, cm and u (1832). [D]
Humphreys, Leonard, Birmingham, cm (1719–23). Took apps named Clare in 1719 and Green in 1723. [S of G, app. index]
Humphreys, Robert, address unrecorded, upholder (1732). Son of William Humphreys, freeman upholder of London. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony on 3 May 1732. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Humphr(e)ys, Robert, Knightsbridge Terr., London, cm and upholder (1820–35). Trading at no. 4 in 1820; nos 4 and 6 in 1826 also as carpet warehouseman; and no. 6 in 1835. Took out Sun Insurance policies on 10 February 1820 for £1,450 of which stock and utensils accounted for £1,250; and on 7 February 1822 for £2,000, stock and utensils accounting for £1,800. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 483, ref. 962857; vol. 493, ref. 989022]
Humphreys, Thomas, London, u and auctioneer (1731–d.1766). Son of Thomas Humphreys of Winchcomb, Glos. ‘Clerk’. App. to Arthur Osborn on 7 April 1731 and then to William Kilpin, 11 November 1735. Free of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude, 3 February 1742. In 1747 trading in Newgate St but by 1756 had moved to St Paul's Churchyard. It was in June of this year that he auctioned the furniture and stock in trade of Stephen Theodore Janssen at the enamel works in York Pl., Battersea. Sale catalogues were obtainable from Humphreys or from William Chesson, a fellow upholsterer. Took as apps William Pinckney, 1749–55, Daniel Holbrow, 1755–62, and Noah Chivers, 1762–65. In 1762 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Arts but four years later his death was announced. He appears to have owned eleven houses in Green Dragon Ct, Cow Lane, Snow Hill and after his death these were insured by Mary Jones and continued to be so insured until 1774. On 1 August 1753 Humphreys was paid £28 11s by the Earl of Dumfries. [GL, Upholders Co. records; Hand in Hand MS vol. 105, pp. 42, 192; Heal; General Evening Post, 29 May 1756; Dumfries papers DH 17] B.A.
Humphreys, William, Fleet St, London, freeman upholder (1715–17). Took out a Hand in Hand Insurance policy on 29 April 1715 for £700 on his house. In 1716 and 1717 fined for non-service at St Bride's. [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 14, p. 285; GL, MS 6561, p. 9]
Humphreys, William, address unrecorded, freeman upholder (1732). His son, Robert Humphreys, admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by patrimony in 1732. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Humphreys, William, 13 Gt Earl St, London, cm and broker (1782). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1782 for £200 of which utensils and stock accounted for £80. [GL, Sun MS vol. 301, p. 369]
Humphreys, William, 78 Tottenham Ct Rd, London, cm (1791–93). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 9 April 1791 for £300, £200 accounting for utensils, stock and goods in trust. [D; GL, Sun MS ref. 581992]
Humphreys & Atkinson, 177 Sloane St, Chelsea, London, cm and u (1823). [D]
Humphries, (or Humphrys), Thomas, London, upholder (1707). Free of the Upholders’ Co., 6 August 1707. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Humphries, William, 4 Chapel St, Holywell Mount, London, chair and sofa manufacturer (1829). [D]
Humphris, Mrs, Parson's Lane, Banbury, Oxon., cm and u (1834). [D]
Humphris, Richard, Parson's Lane, Banbury, Oxon., cm and u (1833). [D]
Humphry, William, Fetter Lane, London, upholder (1724–27). Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal] See William Humphrey.
Hundey, Thomas, 330 High St, Cheltenham, Glos., cm and u (1820). [D]
Hundrey, John, Plymouth, Devon, cm (1752). Took app. named Thomas in 1752. [S of G, app. index]
Hunsley, John, York, carver and gilder (1787–95). Son of John Hunsley, excise supervisor; app. to Robert Blakesley, carver and gilder, on 12 November 1787. Assigned to Robert Tomlinson, carver and gilder. Admitted freeman in 1795. [York app. reg. and freemen rolls]
Hunsley, Peter, Beverley, Yorks., cm (1777–1814). Trading at Market Pl. in 1814. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1777 for £500, £200 accounting for his house and shops, £100 on stock; and on 24 February 1786 for £40 on his house, and £260 on thirteen houses adjoining. [D; poll bks; GL, Sun MS vol. 257, p. 392; vol. 334, p. 572]
Hunstan, Thomas, Boston, Lincs., cm (1784). [D]
Hunt, —, Castle St, near Cross Lane, Long Acre, London, u, broker, auctioneer and sworn appraiser (c.1780–84). Trade card shows two mirrors, two dining chairs, a tallboy, chest, Pembroke table, stand-up desk and grate, none distinguished. [Banks Coll., BM; Heal] See James Hunt of 1 Castle St.
Hunt, Anthony, 28 Bridge St, Bristol, cm (1794). [D]
Hunt, Benjamin, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1805–d.1824). Owned workshop and premises at top of Dorset Gdns, Edward St, 1805–07; recorded in St James's St, 1805–24, no. 27 in 1822, and no. 31, 1823–24. Edward St and St James's St run parallel with each other and are connected by Dorset Gdns. Children by Sarah Hunt bapt. at St Nicholas's: Lusha on 20 August 1815; Sarah Jane on 19 January 1817; Benjamin on 29 November 1820; and Frederick Joseph on 12 January 1825, by which time Benjamin had died. Sale of stock on bankruptcy advertised in Brighton Herald, 31 January 1807, ‘at the Workshop and Premises, top of Dorset Gardens in Edward Street’ on 21 February 1807: ‘THE STOCK IN TRADE and HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY of Mr. Benjamin Hunt, a bankrupt; consisting of Mahogany Logs, Planks, Boards and Veneers, Oak Planks, Clamp Boards, Deals, Timber &c. A Press Bedstead and a variety of other Materials’. Sale also included freehold workshop, three freehold houses, and the lease of a large house facing Dorset Gdns. Auction of household furniture of Benjamin Hunt and lease of 7 St James's St advertised on 19 February 1807. Death reported in Brighton Gazette, 29 July 1824. Marriage of Louisa Sarah Hunt of 11 Grafton St, daughter of Benjamin Hunt, u, to George Marchant took place on 25 January 1840. Hunt & Marchant, cm and u, were trading at 31 St James's St in 1839. [D; PR (bapt. and marriage)] See Sarah Hunt.
Hunt, Charles, Cambridge, cm (1835–d.1840). Trading at Northampton St in 1835. Death reported in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 11 April 1840. [Poll bk]
Hunt, Charles B., George St, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hunt, Charles, 21 Cork St, Bond St, London, billiard table maker (1839). [D]
Hunt, George, Park Lane, Arundel, Sussex, cm and u (1832). [D]
Hunt, Henry, 12 Host St, Bristol, cm (1831). [D]
Hunt, Henry, 107 Regent's Quadrant, London, billiard table maker (1839). [D]
Hunt, J., 8 New Richmond, Pendleton, Salford, Lancs., cm and u (1829). [D] Possibly James Hunt of Pendleton.
Hunt, James, 1 Castle St, Long Acre, London, u (1813–19). [D] See Hunt, —.
Hunt, James, Cambridge, cm and u (1814–32). Recorded in Gt St Mary's parish in 1820, and Market Hill, 1832. Advertised in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 3 February 1832 as having been employed for eighteen years by Elliot Smith, who was now giving up the cabinet side of his business, whilst Hunt was running a cabinet and upholstery warehouse on Market Hill. Sale advertised on 28 September on Hunt's declining business and leaving Cambridge. Named in the calendar of marriage licence bonds on 19 September 1820. [Suffolk RO, FAA:50/2/119, p. 76]
Hunt, James, Pendleton, Salford, Lancs. u (1822–33). Listed near Leaf Sq., 1824–25, and at 8 New Richmond, 1829–33. [D]
Hunt, John, Salisbury Ct, Fleet St, London, u (1723). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 3 August 1723 for £300 of which £250 accounted for his house where Thomas Gilmore of Faversham, Kent, lived; and £50 on warehouses. [GL, Sun MS vol. 15, ref. 29534]
Hunt, John, Wootton under-Edge, Glos., cm and u (1810–30). Trading at Long St in 1820–30, and Haw St, 1822–23. Took app. named William Clark in 1810. [D; Glos. RO, app. indentures]
Hunt, John, Marsh St, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., joiner and cm (1818). [D]
Hunt, John, Nottingham, chairmaker (1827). Son of John Hunt, tailor of Nottingham; taken as app. in 1827. [Nottingham app. list]
Hunt, John, South Molton, Devon, cm (1832–38). Marriage on 13 February 1832 to Mary, daughter of Mr A. Kingdon, wool-stapler of South Molton, reported in Exeter Flying Post, 23 February [D]
Hunt, John Greaves, Cambridge, cm (1832–45). Trading in Bridge St in 1832, and East Rd, 1835–45. [Poll bks]
Hunt, John, High St, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs., cm and u (1828– 35). [D]
Hunt, Joseph, 6 Edmund St, Liverpool, gilder (1794). [D]
Hunt, Joseph, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1813–23). Daughters bapt. in 1813, 1816 and 1823; sons in 1819 and 1821. [PR (bapt.)]
Hunt, Joseph, Worcester, carver and gilder (1826–40). Admitted freeman in 1826, and named in the Worcester freemen rolls on 1 December 1835, when trading at Factory Row. Trading at New St, 1835–40. [D]
Hunt, Nicholas, Stepcote Hill, Exeter, Devon, cm (1821). Son Henry bapt. at St George's Church on 18 March 1821. [PR (bapt.)]
Hunt, Philip, ‘the Looking Glass & Cabinet’, East end St Paul's Churchyard, London, u and cm, (c. 1690). His trade card takes an unusual form. It illustrates a marquetry looking-glass of late 17th-century date bearing the interlaced cypher of William III and Mary II supported by a lion and unicorn in the arched cresting. The square wooden cushion moulded frame is decorated with floral marquetry. The mirror plate reflects a marquetry cabinet on stand with twist turned legs of similar date. The text beneath indicates the nature of Philip Hunt's trade at this period. He offers ‘Cabenetts, Looking Glasses, Tables and stanns, Seretors, Chests of Drawers, And Curious inlaid Figures for any works’. This maker has also been identified with the Mr Hurt or Hunt who in 1720 was involved in the production of the elaborate state bed for John Mellor for his recently acquired house, Erddig, North Wales. Philip Hunt was however clearly a cm and it was an u who was involved in this bed. The long period of about thirty years that separate this commission and the trade card throw further doubt on this attribution. A much more likely craftsman is John Hutt, an u trading in St Paul's Churchyard 1710–29. [Heal, GCM; Nat. Trust guide to Erddig] B.A.
Hunt, Rachael, 34 Ben Jonson St, Liverpool, u (1823). [D]
Hunt, Richard, 3 Hunts Ct, St Martin's Lane, London, carver and gilder (1780). Insured his house for £200 in 1780. [GL, Sun MS vol. 280, p. 625]
Hunt, Richard, 1 Nelson St, Bristol, u and furniture broker (1828–40). Trading as furniture broker only from 1837. [D]
Hunt, Robert, address unrecorded, upholder (1723–31). Son of Robert Hunt, draper of High Wycombe, Bucks. App. to Edward Warren on 3 September 1723, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 June 1731. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hunt, Samuel, Exeter, ‘Change, Strand, London, billiard table maker (1820). [D]
Hunt, Samuel William, 11 Catherine St, Strand, London, billiard table and backgammon board maker (1832). [D]
Hunt, Sarah, 31 St James's St, Brighton, Sussex, cm, u and auctioneer (1824–43). Trading also at no. 39 in 1832. Advertised in Brighton Gazette, 26 August 1824, offering thanks ‘for all Favours conferred on her late husband’, Benjamin Hunt, and requesting ‘Future patronage to enable her to support a large Family. S.H. will have the assistance of an experienced elderly man in the upholstery line, as well as that of her son (now nearly of age) who has been employed by one of the first houses in London.’ [D] See Benjamin Hunt and Hunt & Marchant.
Hunt, Thomas, address unrecorded, upholder (1754). App. to Richard Smith, upholder of Salisbury, Wilts., on 21 December 1754, by indenture for £30. [Wilts. Apps and their Masters]
Hunt, Thomas, Newcastle, u (1768–84). Former apps admitted freeman: William Spence on 13 October 1768; Jacob Barclay on 7 October 1774; Michael Lamb on 6 March 1777; and George Carr on 15 April 1784. [Newcastle freemen reg. and poll bk]
Hunt, William, Boutport St, Barnstaple, Devon, cm and u (1823–30). [D]
Hunt, William, Cambridge, u and cm (1830–35). Trading in Sidney St, 1830–32, and Market Hill, 1834–35. Child bapt. at All Saints parish in 1832. [D; poll bks; PR (bapt.)]
Hunt & Marchant, 31 St James's St, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1839). [D] See Benjamin and Sarah Hunt.
Huntback, John, Worcester, upholder (1771). App. to William Ward snr, upholder. Admitted freeman on 21 January 1771. [Worcester freemen rolls]
Hunter, —, Bridgnorth, Salop, carver and gilder (1828). Took legal action against Reynolds, a customs and excise worker, for seducing and abducting his daughter, Ann Hunter, who bore him a child which her father had to support. Hunter was awarded £70 damages. [Chester Chronicle and North Wales Advertiser, 28 March 1828]
Hunter, Andrew, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, cm (1793). [D]
Hunter, E. & C., address unrecorded. In 1834 supplied ‘1 large burnished gold frame’ costing £4 10s to Erddig, Clwyd. [V&A archives] Probably:
Hunter, Elizabeth & Catherine, Chester, carvers and gilders (1828–34). Trading at Northgate St in 1828 and Eastgate St Row in 1834. [D] Probably successors to James Hunter.
Hunter, Henry, 23 Bondgate, Alnwick, Northumb., cm, joiner and u (1834). [D]
Hunter, Hugh, 1 Charles St, Westminster Rd, London, chair and sofa maker (1827–28). [D]
Hunter, James, address unrecorded, upholder (1769–77). Son of William Hunter, upholder of 465 Strand. App. to his father on 15 November 1769, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 April 1777. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hunter, James, 432 Oxford St, London, cm (1784–86). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 25 July 1786 for £200 of which utensils, stock and goods in trust and in workshop accounted for £120. [D; poll bk; GL, Sun MS vol. 339, p. 175]
Hunter, James, King St, Golden Sq., London, cm and u (1791). Declared bankrupt, Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 16 May 1791.
Hunter, James, Chester, cm (1812–22). Trading at Northgate St in 1812, when admitted freeman on 13 October and still there in 1816 as a carver and gilder. [D; poll bk; Chester freemen rolls]
Hunter, James, Market St, Bradford, Yorks., joiner and cm (1818). [D]
Hunter, James, Liverpool, cm (1821–23). Trading at 10 Portland Pl. in 1821 and 33 New Scotland Rd in 1823. [D]
Hunter, James, Ebenezer Pl., Commercial Rd, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hunter, John, 44 corner of Swallow St, Piccadilly, London, carver and gilder, glass grinder (1779–93). Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1779 for £400 on his house; in 1781 for £700 of which £300 accounted for utensils and stock; and on 14 October 1790 for £2,000 on warehouse, glass and stock at 153 Swallow St. Polled at Westminster as Jonathan Hunter in 1784. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 277, p. 121; vol. 295, p. 370; ref. 575121] Possibly:
Hunter, John, address unrecorded, carver and gilder, frame maker (1788–96). Recorded in Lord Monson's accounts on 2 June 1788 receiving £2 7s for two gold picture frames; on 1 June 1789, £4 8s; and between 10 May 1795 and 25 January 1796, a total of £31 3s 5d for picture frames, including on 10 May one of ‘Burnished Gold, 10 feet at 2/6d the foot’; and on 8 January 1796, ‘Enamelled Glass and Letters, at £1 2s. [Lincoln RO, Monson 10/1/A/6; 11/50] Sent a bill to Sir John Nelthorpe in April 1790 totalling £1 19s 6d for ‘Framing Drawing in Burnish Gold Containing 8 ft. of Moulding at 2s 6d per foot’, glazing and mounting. [Lincoln RO, NEL 9/12/29]
Hunter, John, Richmond, Surrey, cm (1798). [D]
Hunter, John, Hull, Yorks., cm (1819–23). App. to John Hinsley in July 1819, and assigned to William Silbon in September 1823. [Hull app. reg.]
Hunter, John, 7 Finsbury Pl. South, London, u (1823–25). [D]
Hunter, John, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, cm and u (1784–1836). Trading in Cook Row, 1784, and 24 Abbeygate St, 1824–30. [D; poll bk]
Hunter, John, Kirkgate, Cockermouth, Cumb., joiner and/or cm (1828–34). [D]
Hunter, John, 3 Low Ousegate, York, cm etc. (1840). [D]
Hunter, Matthew, St Oswald's parish, Durham, spinning-wheel maker (d.1719). Buried on 15 November 1719. [PR]
Hunter, T., 14 Chancery Lane, London, cm (1809–11). [D]
Hunter, Thomas, Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records in 1818 working on a table. [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow vol. 344/100, p. 2080]
Hunter, Thomas, 10 New Richmond, Manchester, cm (1825–40). [D]
Hunter, Thomas, Williams St, Dale St, Liverpool, cm (1790–1803). Recorded at no. 17 in 1790, and no. 2, 1796– 1803, also as a victualler in 1796. Marriage to Miss Margaret Wilson at St Ann's Church reported in Liverpool Advertiser, 24 September 1789. [D]
Hunter, W., 17 Broker's Row, Moorfields, London, furniture warehouseman (1819). [D]
Hunter, W., Lancaster. Named in the Gillow records in 1839. [Westminster Ref. Lib.]
Hunter, William, Beverley, Yorks., joiner and cm (1720). Took app. named Bradley in 1720. [S of G, app. index]
Hunter, William, London, upholder (1741–d.1802 or 03). Addresses given at 465 Strand in 1769; Bond St in 1786; Lewisham in 1794; and Margate, Kent in 1802. Son of William Hunter, mariner of St John's, Wapping; app. to Charles Grange on November 1741. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 August 1749, master in 1780. Took his son, James Hunter, as app., 1769–77. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records] Possibly:
Hunter, William, in Token House Yard, near the Royal Exchange, London, upholder and appraiser (1755–c.1760). Rococo trade card, c.1760, states that he ‘Makes after the Newest Fashion all sorts of Four Post & Standing Beds. Likewise Sells all sorts of Upholstery & Cabinet Goods… Feather Beds, Chairs, Tables, Glasses, Bureaus, Chests of Drawers, Turkey, Persia & Wilton Carpets, Quilts, Blankets, Damasks, Harrateens &c. Also Variety of Paper Hangings, Furniture, Checks, Flannells, Swanskins & Bayes. NB. Funerals Furnish'd Publick or Private.’ [Heal] A William Hunter subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754.
Hunter, William, Stamford, Lincs., cm and u (1800–28). Recorded in St Mary's St, 1819–28. Admitted freeman in 1800 on payment of £12. [D; Stamford freemen rolls]
Hunter, William, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, u (1804). Announced in Ipswich Journal, 27 October 1804 that he had taken over the business of R. Guest.
Hunter, William Luddington, Hull, Yorks., cm (1818). App. to John Dickon in March 1818. [Hull app. reg.]
Hunter, William, Liverpool, cm (1805–37). Addresses given at 30 North St in 1805; 64 Stanley St in 1813; no. 56 in 1816; no. 22 in 1818; no. 62, 1821–34; and no. 63 in 1837. [D]
Hunter, William, 13 and 14 Moorfields, London, auctioneer, cm and u (1817–25). [D]
Hunter, William, Moorfields, London, u (1826). [Maldon, Essex, poll bk]
Hunter, William, London, u, cm, appraiser, auctioneer and undertaker (1823–39). Trading at 7 Finsbury Pl. South, c.1823; 30 Moorgate St in 1839; and as Hunter & Son in 1835, Hunter & Sons in 1837. Trade card gives address at 7 Finsbury Pl. South. [D; Landauer Coll., MMA, NY]
Hunter, William, East Rainton, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, cm and/or joiner (1834). [D]
Hunter, William, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1826–37). Addresses given at Turkington's Yd, St Peter's Sq. in 1826; Cornhill in 1830 or 1834; and High St in 1837. [D]
Hunter & Hersant, 2 Broker Row, Finsbury, London, cm (1808–15). Trade card gives address at 2 Lower Moorfields, opposite the Middle Walk. Late Hall & Hersant. [D; Heal]
Hunter & Son, 24 Abbeygate St, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, u, cm and auctioneer (1839). [D]
Hunter & Wyles, Bellargate, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1832). [D]
Hunting, William, 34 St James's St, Manchester, picture frame maker (1794). [D]
Huntingdon, E., address unrecorded, u (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hunton, Christopher, Stockton-upon-Tees, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827–32). Trading in the Square, 1827, and Stockton Green in 1832. [D]
Hunton, James, Bradford, Yorks., cm and u (1822–37). Recorded at 124 Westgate in 1822 and Newmarket Bazaar in 1830. [D]
Hunton, John, York, cm (1830). Son of John Hunton, shoemaker; app. to Thomas Walls, cm, on 27 September 1830. [York app. reg.]
Huntsman, W., address unrecorded. Mahogany chair, c. 1760–70, recorded bearing stamp with name in rectangle below a crown. [Colonial Williamsburg Coll., 1930/232] Similar stamp found on a set of six George III mahogany dining chairs, including a pair of armchairs, the backs with curved top-rails and pierced vase-shaped splats with stuffed serpentine seats and raised on moulded chamfered legs. [Sotheby's, 4 December 1970, lot 161] Possibly the Huntsman, chairmaker of London, who subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793.
Hurdacre, Joseph, Huntspill, Som., joiner (1739). A cupboard, originally one of a pair built-in on either side of the fireplace in a cottage near Bristol, is inscribed on the lining of the lefthand drawer ‘Mr. John Howarde this Woorke was done in ye year of our Lord 1739 by Joseph Hurdacre Joyner of ye parish of Huntspill Somersett Shire.’ (Fig. 7). John Howard was tenant of three cottages on the Ashton Court estate. [Som. and Bristol RO; Furn. Hist., 1976, pl. 39]
Hurdle, —, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, u (1828–30). Advertised house sale in Exeter Flying Post, 12 June 1828. [D]
Hurdle, John, Exeter, Devon, cm (1816). [Poll bk]
Hurle, James, 66 Bartholomew Close, London, carver and gilder (1809–25). [D]
Hurley, Richard, 61 Conduit St, Hanover Sq., London, u and undertaker (1816–39). Trading as Hurley & Collinson in 1839. In 1828 acted as counterpart of a lease to William Shakespear for a messuage on the south side of Ranelagh St. [D; Marylebone Lib., deed 72/122]
Hurll, William, High St, Winchester, Hants., cm (1823–24). [D]
Hurscroft, William, High St, Tadcaster, Yorks., cm (1818). [D]
Hurst, E., 3 Norman St, St Luke's, London, u (1835). [D]
Hurst, Edward, Marshall St, London, cm (1774). [Poll bk]
Hurst, Francis, address unrecorded, upholder (1733–34). Son of Thomas Hurst of Little Gunnerby, Lincoln, app. to Robert Milner on 10 January 1733, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 2 December 1741. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hurst, George, Little Compton St, St Ann's, Soho, London, carver and gilder (c.1780). Trade card recorded. [Heal]
Hurst, Henry, Warrington, Lancs., u (1798). [D]
Hurst, Joseph jnr, Mark St, Leeds, Yorks., cm (1839–40). [D]
Hurst, Nicholas, over against the Rose Tavern in Russell St, Covent Garden, London, u (1666). Named in contemporary newspapers as one ‘who fled from the Plague’. [Heal]
Hurst, William, King St, Ramsgate, Kent, cm and u (1823–38). [D]
Hurst, William, 48 North St, Prospect St, Hull, Yorks., cm (1831). [D]
Hurtley, Barnard, Pontefract, Yorks., cm (1797–98). [D]
Hurtridge, John, Maidstone, Kent, upholder (1730). Took app. named Hodges in 1730. [S of G, app. index]
Hurwood, John, Rufull St, Rotherhithe, London, carver (1779). Took out a Sun Insurance policy with Thomas Saweard in 1779 for £200, utensils and stock accounting for £100. [GL, Sun MS vol. 278, p. 392]
Hurwood, William, 15 Church St, St Ann's, London, carver and mantuamaker (1780). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1780 for £400, utensils, stock and goods accounting for £150. [GL, Sun MS vol. 280, p. 180]
Hurwood, William, 18 Conduit St, London, carver and gilder (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 13 November 1792 for £550. [GL, Sun MS vol. 389, ref. 606487]
Husband, Christopher, Blossomgate, Ripon, Yorks., cm (1822–37). [D]
Husband, D., 9 Gt Pulteney St, Golden Sq., London, cm (1825). [D] See John Husband.
Husband, J., 53 Marshall St, Golden Sq., London, cm, chair and sofa maker (1826–28). [D]
Husband, J., Middlx, cm and u (1826). Declared bankrupt, Liverpool Mercury, 17 March 1826.
Husband, John, 19 Gt Pulteney St, Golden Sq., London, cm and u (1823–28). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 1 December 1823 for £350 on household goods, and £200 on stock and utensils in house and yard. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 499, ref. 1010730] See D. Husband.
Husband, John, Centre Lane, Tadcaster, Yorks., joiner and/or cm (1837). [D]
Husband, John, 33½ Upper Guildford St, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Husband, Philip, Yealmpton, near Plymouth, Devon, chairmaker (1837). [Exeter RO, PR; Furn. Hist., 1976, pl. 38A and B]
Husband, Thomas, 8 Ellis St, Sleeve St, London, cm and u (1829–39). [D]
Huscroft, William, High St, Tadcaster, Yorks., cm (1822). [D]
Huskisson, Matthew, 4 Ship St Gdns, Brighton, Sussex, cm and u (1837–39). [D; poll bk]
Huskisson & Co. (or Huskisson & Walker), 10 Ship St, Brighton, Sussex, cm (1832). [D]
Hussey, Edmund, Wincanton, Som., cm (1793). [D] Probably the ‘Mr. Hussey of Wincanton Cabinet-Maker &c.’ who is recorded as having ‘spent the Morning or most part of it at Cole’, in James Woodforde's Diary of a Country Parson, ed. John Beresford, 1921, vol. 4, p. 50.
Husson, Edward, North St, Ashburton, Devon, cm (1838). [D]
Husson, Stephen Lawrence, address unrecorded, upholder (1736–44). Son of Paul Stephen Husson, Gent. of St Leonard's parish, Shoreditch. App. to Edward Webster on 5 January 1736, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 11 January 1743/44. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records]
Hustcroft, Samuel, Low-Jubbergate, York, cm (1787). [D]
Hustwick, Francis, Hull, Yorks., coach and furniture painter (1820). Took app. named John Wheatley in May 1820. [Hull app. reg.]
Hutchings, Edward, 4 Grosvenor St, Brighton, Sussex, cm (1840). Son of John Hutchings, cm; married Elisabeth Thorp on 16 August 1840. [PR]
Hutchings, Jn, address unrecorded, cm (1754). App. to Henry Watson of St James's, London in 1754 for £210. [V&A archives]
Hutchings, John, Peascod St, Windsor, Berks., cm (1824). [D]
Hutchings, John, Queen St, Hammersmith, London, cm (1826). [D]
Hutchings, John, Canal Walk, Southampton, Hants., cm (1836). [D]
Hutchings, William, Lower Marsh, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b. c. 1806–41). Daughters bapt. in 1828 and 1831. Aged 35 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Hutchins, —, King St, Covent Gdn, London, upholder (d.1746). [Harris, Old English Furniture]
Hutchins, —, London, cm (1747). Notice in General Advertiser, 18 September 1747 read: ‘Wednesday Night, about Eleven o'clock, Mr. Hutchins, a Cabinet Maker, was robb'd near Little Turnstile in Holborn, by Two Ruffians, who searched all his Pockets, took from him Two Guineas and made off without the least Molestation from the Watch.’
Hutchins, Abraham, address unrecorded, u (1753–60). He was employed regularly by the 4th Duke of Bedford at Bedford House, London, and at Woburn Abbey, Beds., supplying curtains and bed furniture, cleaning and scouring textiles, upholstering chairs and making covers for the Duchess's and her daughter's dressing-tables. In 1753 he also supplied ‘14 beach chairs covered in Spanish leather’. From 1757 he worked with Abigail Hutchins, who was probably his mother. The latter was succeeded by Hassall Hutchins. [Bedford Office, London]
Hutchins, Abigail, address unrecorded, u and cm (1757–70). She worked with Abraham Hutchins for the 4th Duke of Bedford between 1757–60. After 1760 Abigail continued on her own, regularly supplying, cleaning and repairing bed furniture, curtains, damask wall hangings and upholstery for the Duke at Bedford House, London, Woburn Abbey, Beds., and the family house at Streatham. In August 1769 she provided, perhaps for Woburn Abbey, crimson silk and worsted line ‘to hang the pictures in the room that was hung with Tapestry according to Mr. Chambers’ plan’. Some furniture was supplied to the Duke, mainly for the servants’ rooms, but including, in 1764, six walnut back stools for Woburn Abbey, ‘the frames in dead white and gilt in burnished gold’, for £28 7s. Hassall Hutchins, probably her son, joined her in or before October 1769. [Bedford Office, London]
Hutchins, Ann, Exeter, Devon, u (1725). Advertised in Brice's Weekly Journal, 10 September 1725: ‘Any Person, having occasion to imploy an Upholsterer, may be faithfully serV&Apos;d by Ann Hutchins, who performs all sorts of work in that business and will work at any Gentleman's or other's house in city or country for 2d. per day; or will take in any sort of such work, to be performed at her own house, on very moderate terms. She may be enquired for at Mrs. Condly's or the King's Arms in St. Sidwell's, Exon.’
Hutchins, George, Wincanton, Som., chairmaker (1798). [D]
Hutchin(s), Hassall (or Hassil), London, upholder, cm and auctioneer (1769–90). Recorded at King St, Covent Gdn, 1773–83; and no. 41, 1783–90. In 1777 Hassett Hutchins of Hart St, Covent Gdn, insured a house at 115 Strand, near Somerset House, for £60. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 258, p. 438] He joined Abigail Hutchins, probably his mother, in or before October 1769, and together they served the Duke of Bedford as regular upholsterers, supplying, cleaning and repairing textiles at Bedford House, London, and Woburn Abbey, Beds. From 1771–81, Hassall Hutchins continued on his own to supply the 4th Duke and subsequently the 5th Duke and the Dowager Duchess. Some furniture was supplied over this period, mainly for the servants’ rooms, but also for the family bed-chambers. Funerals for the household servants were also arrayed by Hassall Hutchins who charged £10 5s 8d in September 1777 for funeral expences for Gaspard Schuman, including a coffin lined with crepe, covered with black baize and fitted with an inscription plate and flowered handles. For this occasion he hired out a velvet pall, crepe armbands, gloves, cloaks for men and hoods and scarves for the ladies. [Bedford Office, London]
Hutchins, John, Chepping Wycombe Borough, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1798). [Militia Census]
Hutchins, John, Wardour St, London, chair and sofa manufacturer (1815–23). Recorded at no. 7 in 1815 and 1820, and no. 8 in 1817. Trade card gives address at no. 7. [D; Johnson Coll., Bodleian Lib., Oxford; Furn. Hist., 1974, p. 43]
Hutchins, John, Brighton, Sussex, cm and chairmaker (1822–40). Addresses given at 126 North St, 1822–24, also no. 47 in 1822, and 15 Poplar Pl. in 1826. His daughter, Caroline Hutchings of 12 Sussex St married on 8 July 1838. His son, Edward Hutchings, cm of 4 Grosvenor St married Elizabeth Thorp on 16 August 1840. [D; E. Sussex RO, PR]
Hutchins, John, 101 Gt Titchfield St, London, cm and u (1827– 39). [D]
Hutchins, John, 54 Foley St, Foley Pl., London, cm, u, chair and sofa maker (1839). [D]
Hutchin(g)s, Jonathan, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (1822–30). Daughters bapt. in 1822 and 1829, son in 1830. [PR (bapt.)]
Hutchins, Richard, 56 Newman St, Oxford St, London, chair and sofa maker (1822–39). [D]
Hutchins, Robert, New Round Ct, Strand, London, cm (1780). Insured his house for £100 in 1780. [GL, Sun MS vol. 286, p. 541]
Hutchinson, —, Saffron Walden, Essex, cm (1771). Advertised in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 5 January 1771. Possibly John Hutchinson.
Hutchinson, Anthony, Boar Lane, Leeds, Yorks., carver, gilder and music seller (1828). [D]
Hutchinson, Edmund, High Wycombe, Bucks., chairmaker (b.1801–41). Daughters bapt. in 1820, 1822 and 1824, son in 1826. Aged 40 at the time of the 1841 Census. [PR (bapt.)]
Hutchinson, George, Nottingham, chairmaker (1744). Married, aged 28, on 26 December 1774. [Notts. RO, marriage licence index lib., vol. 2]
Hutchinson, George, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hutchinson, George, 7 Riding House Lane, London, cm (1835). [D]
Hutchinson, George, 8 Chapel Pl., Oxford St, London, carver and gilder (1839). [D]
Hutchinson, George, 12 Huntley St, Bedford Sq., London, cm (1840). [GL, Sun MS ref. 1339678]
Hutchinson, Henry, Lombard St, Newark, Notts., cm and u (1822). [D]
Hutchinson, James, Pontefract, Yorks., cm (1785). Referred to in Leeds Mercury, 30 August 1785.
Hutchinson, John, address unrecorded, u (1762–67). Submitted bill to Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex, in 1762 for fixing curtains and moving a field bed for 16s 6d; and in 1771 for two dressing glasses and a painted frame at a total of 11s 10d. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A15; A29/9] Possibly Hutchinson, —.
Hutchinson, John, Kirkby Stephen, Westmld, joiner and cm (1828–29). [D]
Hutchinson, John, Queen St, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, cm and/or joiner (1834). [D]
Hutchinson, Peter, Lees, near Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs., joiner and cm (1825). [D]
Hutchinson, Peter, Staindrop, Co. Durham, joiner and cm (1827). [D]
Hutchinson, Richard, Church St, Hackney, London, upholder and cm (1808–11). [D]
Hutchinson, Robert, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hutchinson, Stephen, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hutchinson, Thomas, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1769). Son of William Hutchinson, farrier of Kirkby Bogg; taken as app. in 1769. [Nottingham app. list]
Hutchinson, Thomas, Iron Market, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., cm (1818–22). [D]
Hutchinson, Thomas, Beaumond St, Newark, Notts., cm (1835). [D]
Hutchinson, William, Durham, cm (1783–93). Daughter bapt. at St Mary-le-Bow, Durham, on 18 August 1783. [D; PR (bapt.)]
Hutchinson, William, St Mary's Chare, Hexham, Northumb., joiner and cm (1827). [D]
Hutchinson & Co., London, carvers and gilders (1824). Submitted a bill in 1824 to Thomas Whitmore, MP, of Apley Hall, Salop, for ‘a Rich Carved Frame for Looking Glass’, costing £22, charged by Baldock; ‘Silver'd Plate for ditto’, £22 17s 1d; and ‘Gilding Frame in burnish.d Gold’, for £15. [Essex RO, D/DWt A3]
Hutchon, John, Liverpool, carver (1733–d. by 1780). Admitted freeman on 31 December 1733. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Hutchon, Richard, Liverpool, carver (1720). Admitted freeman on 4 August 1720. [Liverpool freemen reg.]
Huton, Thomas, 44 Rathbone Pl., London, cm and chairmaker (1792). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 4 December 1792 for £200. [GL, Sun MS vol. 389, ref. 607385]
Hutt, Elizabeth & Son, at ‘The Blew Curtain’, St Paul's Church Yard, London, upholders (1741–49). Submitted a bill, dated 1741 and made out to ‘Mr. Howard’, to the Duke of Norfolk, for ‘a Dressing Table and Glass £6. 6s.od.’. [Banks Coll., BM] In 1749 Elizabeth Hutt provided the Duke of Gordon with ‘A large Wilton; carpet 29 yards @ 6/6 — £9. 8. 6.’. Bill head states that she made and sold ‘all sorts of glass, Cabinet & Chairwork’. She was succeeded by John Iliffe. [Heal; Scottish RO, GD44/51/380]
Hutt, John, London, upholder (1710–d.1729). Recorded at ‘The Three Pillows’, over against the South Gate, St Paul's Church Yard, 1712–21. John Hutt, u, was paid by St John's College, Cambridge, in 1710–11, for supplying a bed and coverings, chairs, curtains, walnut table, looking-glass, carpet and quilt; and ‘Mr. Huts Upholsterer on the South side of St. Paul's’ is named on 9 September 1719 in the records at King's College Library, Cambridge. [KCL, Coll. I, f58] John Hutt of ‘The Three Pillars’ insured his house, goods and merchandise on 17 November 1719. [GL, Sun MS vol. 10, ref. 15779] Shortly before 1821 John Hutt and William Langmore, upholder in Cornhill, took an inventory of the goods of Sir John Blunt of Birchin Lane and Stratford, West Ham, a Director of the South Sea Co., and supplied him with goods to the value of £370. He charged £66 6s ‘for chimney glasses and sconces at Stratford’. Hutt charged Sir Robert Chaplin, Bart of Castle St, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Camringham, Lincoln, £100; and Robert Chester of Briggens Park, Herts., £209 13s; in both cases for unspecified items. John Hutt was probably the Mr Hurt or Hunt, who in 1720 was involved in the production of the elaborate state bed for John Mellor for his recently acquired house, Erddig, Clwyd, N. Wales. Simon Yorke, his nephew, wrote from London on 17 April 1720 regarding this bed. He had attempted to call on ‘Hunt’ but found him absent and had to be content with the assurances of his wife that the bed would be sent on Monday next. The delay was blamed on the wait for the gilding and carving to be completed. This had been sub-contracted possibly to John Belchier whose workshop was near at hand and had supplied much other furniture to Erddig. It has been suggested previously that the craftsman involved was Philip Hunt of ‘The Looking Glass & Cabinet’, East end St Paul's Churchyard, but he appears to have been a cm, not an u, and there is no evidence that he was trading as late as 1720. [Nat. Trust guide to Erddig] John was succeeded in St Paul's Churchyard by Richard Hutt. Named in contemporary newspapers. [Heal; Hilton Price, Signs of Old London; GCM]
Hutt, Joseph, 24 Rosoman St, Clerkenwell, London, cm and u (1827–28). [D]
Hutt, Richard, St Paul's Churchyard, London, u and cm (1745– 48). Successor to John Hutt. Notice in Daily Advertiser, 2 January 1745 read: ‘On Friday, as Mr. Hutt, an eminent Cabinet Maker in St. Paul's Churchyard, and his Wife, were travelling the Essex Road in a Chaise, they were overturned, by which Accident she had the Misfortune to break her Leg, in so terrible a Manner, that her Life is despair'd of.’ Her death on 3 January 1745 was reported in the same paper on 9 January. Richard Hutt was declared bankrupt in Penny London Post, 10 June 1748. [Harris, Old English Furniture]
Hutton, —, address unrecorded, carver (1744). Supplied picture frames for Petworth, Sussex, in 1744. [C. Life, 25 September 1980, p. 1030]
Hutton, —, Lancaster, japanner and furniture painter (1790–1838). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Hutton, Alexander, 16 Heddon St, London, cm (1808). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 16 April 1808 for £1,000, of which £400 accounted for a private house at 17 Heddon St. [GL, Sun MS vol. 445, ref. 816401]
Hutton, George, Lancaster, furniture painter (1799–1815). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Hutton, Henry F., Colchester, Essex, cm etc. (1793). [D]
Hutton, James, Lancaster, furniture painter and japanner (1794–1808). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Hutton, James, Britwell, Oxon, chairmaker (1824). Participant in a conveyance for a property in South Weston to be converted into a chapel or meeting house for the Society of Methodists. [Oxford RO, Bi II/i/9]
Hutton, James, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1830–1840). Trading at Holbeck Lane, 1830–34, and 102 Wellington St in 1837. [D]
Hutton, James, Woolpack Yd, Bradford, Yorks., cm (1837). [D]
Hutton, John, London, worker in gilt leather (1728–37). Recorded at St Paul's Churchyard in 1735 On 22 November 1728 he provided Sir Gilbert Heathcote with ‘A Six Leave Gilt Leather Screen Eight Feet High Painted Bleu and Gold Alt’, costing £6 6s. [Lincoln RO, 2 ANC 12/D/18] On 10 February 1735, John Hutton of Paul's Church Yard was paid £22 by Earl Fitzwalter for ‘a set of gilt leather hangings, blue and gold, with a damask figure & mosaic border, for the room next the street at the head of the great stairs in the house in Pall Mall.’ [A. C. Edwards, The Accounts of Benjamin Mildmay, Earl Fitzwalter, p. 73] The Duke of Gordon bought ‘Two Gilt Leather Fire Screens with Figures & Landscapes and Mahogany Frames’, costing £2 10s on 30 November 1737. [Scottish RO, GD44/51/465/3/41]
Hutton, John, Gainsborough, Lincs., cm (1784). [Hull poll bk]
Hutton, John, Lancaster, furniture painter (1804–10). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Hutton, John, Thursby, Wigton, Cumb., joiner and cm (1828– 29). [D]
Hutton, Jonathan, 26 Mortimer St, Cavendish Sq., London, cm (1817). [D]
Hutton, Richard, Lancaster, furniture painter (1825–29). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Hutton, Richard, 36 Crawford St, London, u (1839). [D]
Hutton, Robert, Norwich, u (d.1733). Will proved in 1733. [Norfolk Record Soc., index of wills]
Hutton, Robert, Haddenham, Cambs., cm (d.1764). Sale of stock in trade on death advertised in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 8 September 1764.
Hutton, Samuel, 40 Gun St, Manchester, cm (1813). [D]
Hutton, Thomas, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1775–1813). Son of Sam Hutton, whipmaker of Nottingham; taken as app. in 1775. Took apps named William Bonner Bilby in 1791, Richard Russel and George Newberry in 1792, Isaac Newton in 1787, and Thomas Hutton in 1813. Signed the Nottingham Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, on behalf of the masters. Declared bankrupt, Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 16 December 1793. [D; Nottingham app. list]
Hutton, William, Barnstaple, Devon, cm, u and auctioneer (1828–36). Addresses given at 93 High St, c.1815–20, and no. 102 in 1829. Advertised in North Devon Journal, 8 October 1829 stating ‘that he is removed from his late residence to No. 102, the House late-occupied by Mr. R. GRIBBLE, in High Street, where he solicits a continuance of that distinguished patronage with which he has been honoured since his establishment in business.’ Marriage to Elizabeth Moon at Ilfracombe reported in The Alfred, 22 July 1828. Label giving address of W. Hutton's cabinet and upholstery warerooms at 93 High St, recorded on small toilet mirror of solid mahogany, and softwood veneered with mahogany and oak, c.1815–20. Label of William Hutton of Barnstaple found on mahogany commode chest of wellfigured wood, with a rising top and the front with four simulated drawers. [Sotheby's, 24 July 1963, lot 292] Sale of his ‘well-established Business’ on his retirement advertised in Exeter Flying Post, 16 June 1836. The business comprised the lease of a house in ‘the centre and most eligible part of the High-street, in Barnastaple, and is in every way adapted for carrying on an extensive Manufacturing Business in the above Line, having been fitted up expressly for the business with Saw Pit, Timber Yard, Drying Sheds, and Workshops, in which fifteen hands are now employed, and all on goods ordered; a large and valuable assortment of Seasoned Wood in Plank and Veneers, part of which has been cut upward of eight years, and comprise about 7,000 feet of Mahogany, 2,000 feet of Birch and Beech, about four tons of Rose, Zebra and Satin Woods, about 4,000 feet of Veneer; with a general assortment of other Woods, Ironmongery and Upholstery: And a Modern Assortment of Manufactured Goods. Any assistance for six or twelve months, in the conducting of the Business may be had by application to W. HUTTON, who is about to reside about one mile from the town…’.
Hutton, William, Britwell, Oxon, chairmaker (1824). Participant in a conveyance for a property in South Weston to be converted into a chapel or meeting house for the Society of Methodists. [Oxford RO, Bi II/i/9]
Huttons, —, Lancaster, japanners and furniture painters (1804–37). [Westminster Ref. Lib., Gillow records]
Huwood, Thomas, Norwich, u (1750). Took app. named Humphrey in 1750. [S of G, app. index]
Huxley, Charles, 16 John St, Oxford St, London, u (1826–27). [D]
Huxley, Joseph, Chester, u (1824–37). Addresses given at Newgate St in 1824, Weaver St in 1826, and Princess St in 1837. Admitted freeman on 19 October 1824. [Chester freemen rolls and poll bks]
Huxley, Thomas, Foregate St, Chester, u (1812). [Poll bk]
Huxley, Thomas Croft, Liverpool, cm (1812–39). Addresses given at 52 Park Lane in 1812; 28 St James St with shop at 50 Park Lane in 1823; 52 Park Lane and 70 Sparling St in 1827; 52 Park Lane and 77 Sparling St, 1827–29; 46–47 Park Lane in 1837; and nos 97–99 in 1839. Admitted freeman on 14 October 1812, when stated ‘sailmaker now cabinet maker’. Took apps named William Latham Huxley in 1822; Henry Pidger Cohen in 1824; Samuel Major in 1828; Robert Peppitt and Thomas Walker Shepherd in 1822, admitted freemen in 1830; and James Shillito in 1831, freeman in 1840. [D; Liverpool freemen reg. and committee bk]
Huxley, Thomas, 38, shop 39, Fox St, Liverpool, cm (1837). [D]
Huxley, William Latham, Liverpool, cm (1822). App. to Thomas Croft Huxley in 1822. [Liverpool app. enrolment bk]
Huyton, William, Moor St, Ormskirk, Lancs., cm (1825). [D]
Hweitson, Isaac, 68 Wardour St, London, chairmaker (1808). [D]
Hyatt, John, Sherborne, Dorset, u and cm (1755–98). App. to Thomas Thorne of Sherborne, u, for seven years in 1755. [D; Dorset app. indentures]
Hyatt, Thomas, Linehall St, Chester, u (1826). Admitted freeman on 12 June 1826. [Chester freemen rolls and poll bk]
Hyatt, Thomas, Friar St, Warwick, cm (1831). [Poll bk]
Hyatt, William, 53 Dorset St, Portman Sq., London, u, cm and chair and sofa maker (1820–25). Declared bankrupt, Brighton Gazette, 25 November 1824. [D]
Hyde, Daniel, Liverpool, joiner and cm (1772–84). Trading in King St, 1772–73. Notices regarding bankruptcy appeared in Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser, 25 March and 27 May 1784. [D]
Hyde, G. B., 29 Thomas St, Manchester, carver and gilder (1832–33). [D]
Hyde, Hannah, 31 Gerrard St, Soho, London, cm and u (1839). [D]
Hyde, James, late of 34 Lord St, Liverpool, cm (1832). Sale of remaining stock advertised in Liverpool Mercury, 9 March 1832, consisting ‘of a general assortment of Ladies Rosewood & Mahogany Work Boxes, Dressing Cases, Portable Writing Desks, Tea Chests, Backgammon Boards & Chess Men, Card Cases, Tablets, a great variety of Toys, Jewellery, & Silver Articles, Cutlery etc.’
Hyde, John, 15 Newton St, Chorlton Range (or Row), Manchester, cm (1832–34). [D]
Hyde, Jonathan, 20 Stanley St, Liverpool, cm (1777). [D]
Hyde, Richard, Park St, Worksop, Notts., cm, builder, surveyor and appraiser (1832). [D]
Hyde, Robert, Worksop, Notts., table maker (1786). Mahogany kneehole desk recorded, with three graduated drawers each side of the arch, a pair of simulated cupboard doors on the reverse, and supported on short turned legs with leaf-cast sockets to castors. Inscription under the top reads: ‘Robe. Hyde. Table Maker ye Worksop Nottinghamshire 12 August 1786’. [Conn., September 1973, Jeremy Ltd, London] Possibly:
Hyde, Robert, Worksop, Notts., cm, u and builder (1819–35). Recorded at Forest Lane in 1819, Park St in 1828 and Coney St in 1835. [D] Possibly:
Hyde, Robert, Worksop, Notts., joiner (1816–d.c.1834). Carried out joinery work for the Earl of Surrey at Worksop Manor in 1816, repairing furniture and supplying minor furniture such as bidets, butlers’ trays, wood-bottomed chairs, swing-glass frames and bed steps. In 1817 he provided a mahogany high chair. [Arundel Castle records, MD662; 1308–09] Will dated 7 April 1829, proved in 1834. [Notts. RO, probate records]
Hyde, Robert, address unrecorded, cm (1803). Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803.
Hyde, Robert, address unrecorded, cm and u (1812). Recorded in the Welbeck Abbey accounts of Edward Turner, steward, being paid £119 10s 5d on 13 May, and £51 16s 11d on 31 December 1812. [Notts. RO]
Hyde, Thomas, Bath, Som., cm (1826–33). Addresses given at 15 Broad St in 1826 and 1 Charles St in 1833. [D]
Hyde, W., 1 Charles St, Bath, Som., fancy cm (1819–26). [D]
Hyde, William Wilson, Hull, Yorks., cm and broker (1803–21). Trading in Blackfriargate, 1803–06, no. 20 in 1805; as Hyde & Dunlin, auctioneers, cabinet makers and brokers at Silver St in 1810; alone as appraiser, auctioneer and commission man at 29 Silver St in 1814; and auctioneer at 1 Princess Row, Dock St, 1817–21. [D]
Hyfield, —, 35 Old Compton St, Soho, and 7 London Rd, St George's Fields, London, looking-glass manufacturer, carver and gilder. Trade card states that he ‘Carves and Gilds All sorts of glass and picture frames … Oval and pier glasses on the lowest terms. New frames Old glass to the present fashion. Merchants, Captains and Country Dealers served on the shortest notice … resonable Rates Old glasses new silvered.’
Hyland, James, 21 Croydon St, St Marylebone, London, bedstead maker (1833). Took app. in 1833. [Marylebone Lib., Paddington Charities app. indentures]
Hyland, William, 21 Croydon St, Bryanston Sq., London, bedstead maker (1839). [D]
Hylt, John, 16 High St, Lewes, Sussex, chair manufacturer (1839). [D]
Hynes, Thomas, address unrecorded. Signed a Sheraton-period sideboard in the Neo-classical style. [Collector's Guide, September 1952, Frank Caira, London]
Hynmers Taylor, —, near St James's Church, Piccadilly, London, upholstery, cabinet and carpet warehouseman (1767–68). Supplied Lady Ann Connorly with a carpet costing £21 2s 6d in January 1767, for Stretton Hall, Staffs. [V&A Lib., English Manuscripts] On 9 April 1768 Mrs Long of Saxmundham, Suffolk, paid Hynmers Taylor £1 8s 6d for a night table and waiter, and on 15 April, £1 12s for a basin stand and wash table. [Suffolk RO, HA18/EC/4]