Bispham, Edward, Liverpool, cm (1761–74). App. to Nicholas Cross and admitted freeman on 7 April 1761. [Liverpool freemen reg.] Possibly the Edward Bispham who was paid 14s 9d on 4 August 1773 for repairing tables at Dunham Massey, and £14 14s on 24 March 1774 for one mahogany chest and ‘3 dail chests’ [John Rylands Lib., Manchester Univ., George Cooke's accounts]