Doolittle, Robert

Dublin, Ireland; cabinet maker and joiner (fl.1761-1781)

Made Freeman of the City of Dublin as a Joiner by Service, Midsummer 1761. He was also elected Master of the Joiners’ Guild from 1771 to 1772.

Recorded in York Street, 1766-72 (in partnership with James Wilson 1766-9); 4 South Great George’s Street, 1773-4; 32 South Great George’s Street, 1775; 68 South Great George’s Street, 1776-81.

Dublin Mercury, 21-24 February 1767; ‘Marriage: Mr. Robert Doolittle of York-street, Cabinet-maker, to Miss Fenton of the Coombe’.

Saunders News Letter, 13 August 1779:  ‘To be sold by auction, by James Wilson, Auctioneer on Thursday the 17th of August 1779, and the succeeding days, the entire stock in trade of Mr. Robert Doolittle, Cabinet-maker, No. 68 Great George’s-street, who is quitting that business and going to live in the country, having disposed of his house is determined to sell every article without reserve. It may well be worth the attention of the public who have houses to furnish as there is a great variety of furniture, all manufactured under his own inspection, being made of best material and finished in the completest manner, consisting of variety of dining, sideboard, card, voidore, pillar, and spider tables, desks, and bookcases, glazed and plain doors, whole and half tallboys, clothes presses and ditto beds, shaving and bason-stands, tea-chests, tea-trays and commodes, writing and dressing-boxes, parlour and drawing room chairs and a number of chair frames, double and single bottle coopers, knife boxes, night tables and stools, with variety of other valuable articles, more fully expressed in handbills — N.B. The sale to begin each day at eleven o'clock’.

Source: Glin & Peill, Irish Furniture (2007), p. 281.