Brook(e), John snr, Briggate, Leeds, Yorks., cm and u (1783– d. c. 1804). [D] Address also given at Wormald Yd in 1798. Advertised in Leeds Mercury, 18 February 1783, that … he makes and sells all sorts of Cabinet and Upholstery goods in the best and newest Taste, and on the most reasonable Terms. NB. Three journeymen in the cabinet and chair Branch wanted immediately, who may depend on constant Employment and Wages according to Merit’. Announced in Leeds Intelligencer, 21 and 28 July 1789 his removal ‘into a house in the late Mrs. Lee's Yard, nearly opposite the hotel in Briggate’. Advertised for journeymen, Leeds Mercury, 18 May 1790, and Leeds Intelligencer, 1 June 1790, ‘wages from 12s. to 16s. a week, and allowed to work overtime throughout the year’. Brook was one of the few Masters called to sign an agreement with the journeymen in the Leeds Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791. Advertised for six cm in Leeds Mercury, 4 December 1802, and mentioned in Leeds Intelligencer, 23 March 1807. Subscribed to Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Dead by 1804, when his son, John Brook jnr announced continuation of trading on the same premises after his father's death, Leeds Mercury, 15 December 1804. Brook snr worked at Harewood House, Yorks. between 1783–1801, being paid about £275 for furniture including, in 1796, ‘2 large Round end Dining Teble (sic)’. [Leeds archives dept, Harewood MS 189, 190–91, 211; Furn. Hist., 1965, 1971 and 1974]