De Caix, Alexander, 15 Rupert St, Coventry St, London, water gilder and burnisher (1791–1819). Submitted a bill to the Prince of Wales on 4 November 1791 for £195 15s, of which £162 15s accounted for two years and seven months wages, at sixty guineas a year; and the rest for repairs, including soldering and gilding chandeliers. Another bill, dated 19 July 1792, totals £46 12s for cleaning and repairing furniture, vases, ornaments and chimney pieces, carried out from 20 March to 28 June, at Carlton House and Kempshott. A further bill of 5 January 1801 describes him as a ‘bronze and ormolu manufacturer’. Carried out ‘or moulu gilding’ for Henry Holland at Woburn Abbey, Beds., receiving £6 10s 9d in December 1791. Took app. named Jane McCaddon in 1806. [D; Windsor RA, 25093, 25097–99; 25105; Bedford Office, London; Westminster Ref. Lib., MS F4310, St Martin-in-the-Fields PR]