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Burrows, Richard (1777-87)

Burrows, Richard, Saffron Walden, Essex, cm and u (1777–87). Named in the accounts for Audley End, Essex, where he supplied Sir John Griffin Griffin with ‘12 Stained Chairs @ 4/10 for Steward's Room’, in 1777. In 1783 he received 4s 6d for ‘alltring a Mahogy Clockcase for Mrs. Wheeler’, and working on curtains and mattresses. He supplied three wainsccott desks, chest of drawers and bedside stand in 1786; totalling £11 8s 6d; and in 1787 ‘12 best dyed Chairs for Stewards Rooms @ 5/6’ and ‘4 hart wood walnuttree Chairs’, totalling £6 1s 4d. [Essex RO, D/DBy/A35/8; A41/6; A44/7; A445/8] On 22 May 1787 he insured his house, workshop, goods and farmhouse at Little Sampford, Essex, for £100 with the Sun Co. [GL, Sun MS vol. 345, p. 74] Notice in Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 8 February 1806, that he had been appointed agent for the Union Fire Office of London.

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.