Dawes, Bartholomew

20 Carlisle Street, Soho, London; upholsterer, cabinet maker and undertaker (fl.1826–45)

Worked for Lord Viscount Lowther:

• July 1838, ‘Reframing a Gilt Cabriole Sofa thoroughly repairing Do. and making good the carving’, for £2 15s. 
• From 2–14 July he supervised moving and repairing furniture, taking down, repairing and replacing blinds, taking up, brushing and laying down ‘druggets’ and carpets; ‘papering up the Furniture’, ‘scouring & glazing the Brown holland coverings of the Staircase’, and ‘Making up a Table cover of your Embroidered Velvet lined throughout with fine green bevill'd merino bound with silk lace and fringed all round’.  

Listed in London Post Office Directory 1845 as cabinet maker, upholsterer and undertaker.  

See Thomas Dawes, ‘inventor of the patent sun shades’.

Source: DEFM