Brushfield (or Broshfield), William, Car(e)y St, London, upholder (1720–76). Son of Thomas Brushfield, Gent. of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlx; app. to Richard Farmer on 1 March 1720, and admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 3 September 1729. Named as a member of the Upholders’ Livery in 1750. Took app. named William Chaplin, 1768–76. Polled at Westminster in 1749 and 1774. [GL, Upholders’ Co. records and Livery lists] Two tradesmen must be concerned here, since the death of ‘Mr Brushfield, jun. Upholder in Carey-street, Lincoln's inn’ was reported in Public Advertiser, 2 June 1768: ‘he was to have been married on Sunday last’.