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Bealing, Richard

London; upholder (fl.1672–1711)

Bell, Daniel, London, cm and u (1725–31).

Bolt, Thomas, 28 Margaret St, Cavendish Sq., London, cm (1837–38).

Bonifold, John, address unrecorded, chairmaker (1791–92).

Bott, Thomas, London, cm and u (1816–39). Addresses given at 10–11 Gt Portland St, Oxford St 1816–31, and 28 Margaret St, 1832–39. [D] Supplied furniture to Streatlam Castle, Co. Durham, receipts for which are dated July 1829 and January 1830.

Bradshaw, —, address unrecorded, cm and u (1777). The Blenheim accounts mention ‘18 pieces of green flock paper’ supplied on 26 February, and ‘2 four post bedsteads with purple flowered Cotton furn.

Bradshaw, William

London; cabinet maker, upholder and ‘tapissier’ (fl.1728–d. 1775)

Braithwait(e) (or Brathwait(e), Ebenezer, Cornhill, London, u (1717–55). Trading at the ‘Ship and Anchor’, 1727–32. Son of Samuel Braithwaite, cheesemonger of Westminster, possibly brother of Samuel, cm and u of Holborn. App.

Brown, James, St Paul's Churchyard, London, u and cm (1747–96). Traded initially at the sign of ‘The King's Arms’ on the south side of St Paul's Churchyard which had been previously used by Christopher Gibson.

Bruce, David, Aldersgate St, London, cm and u (1792–1823). Recorded at no. 110 in 1792 and no. 113, 1800–23.

Burnell, C. & Fox, John, London, cm, upholders, appraisers and undertakers, successors to William Lamb (1809–25). Trading at 9–10 Jewin St, Cripplegate, 1809–19; and 46–47 Newgate St, 1820–25.

Burnett, Thomas, Strand, London, u and cm (1744–74). Recorded at ‘The King's Arms, against the New Church in the Strand’, 1747–66, and no. 61 Strand, 1760–74. [D] In partnership with Gilbert Burnett, 1747–74.

Chipchase, Robert & Lambert, Robert

London; cabinet maker and upholder (fl.1767–88)

Cooke, Isaac

Bath, Som.; upholder and cabinet maker (fl.1765–1778)

Cullen, James

Edinburgh, Scotland and 56 Greek St, Soho, London; upholder and cabinet maker (fl.1736-79)

Davies (or Davis), Samuel, Chester, u, cm and auctioneer (b. c. 1770–d. 1829). Trading in Eastgate St, 1797–1805; Foregate St, 1812–30; and no. 132 in 1828; in partnership with Cliffe in 1822. Admitted freeman on 23 January 1798.

Dillon, Joseph, address unrecorded, chairmaker (1701). In October 1701 he was paid £4 6s by 2nd Duke of Bedford for six walnut backstools and four walnut elbow chairs, all with stuffed backs, and two walnut round stools. [Bedford Office, London]

Dowbiggin(g) (or Dowbiggen), Thomas

Mount St, London; cabinet maker and upholder (b. 1788–d. 1854)

Elward, George & Marsh, William

Evans, Samuel, address unrecorded, joiner and chairmaker (1826–31).

Farrington, Richard snr and jnr

Fell, Lawrence

London; cabinet maker (fl.1766–97)

Gilding, Francis

113 Aldersgate St, London; cabinet maker and upholder (fl.1759–96)

Gomm, William & Richard, London, cm and u (c. 1698–1794). William Gomm was born c. 1698 the son of Richard Gomm, a yeoman farmer of Chinnor, Oxon. In 1713 he was app. to Hugh Maskall of London, a member of the Leathersellers’ Co.

Goodison, Benjamin