Everard, Richard

London; chair maker (1702–25). 

In 1702 he provided walnut chairs and a nursing chair for Wriothesley, 2nd Duke of Bedford, at a cost of £3 6s; and in 1709 twenty walnut chairs for £8 [Bedford Office, London].

Submitted bills to Lady Mary Saunderson for items supplied between 7 June 1715 and 1 June 1725, costing a total of £46 3s. Furniture bought included, on 7 June 1715, ‘12 Fine Matted Chairs’, costing £12 12s; on 2 January ‘2 Settees the Best Sort’, £4 10s; two X-framed stools with ‘French Feet’; and various chair frames [Lincoln Record Office, Monson, 101/A/16]. 

The account book of the Earl of Rockingham records payments to Everard, chair maker, of £4 2s for chairs, in April 1716; £2 8s for a settee frame on 28 May 1718; and £3 for two chairs on 20 October 1718 [Lincoln Record Office, Monson, 10 A/1].

Invoices have been discovered amongst a parcel of bills at Petworth House by Dr Amy Lim, for three sets of eighteen 'fine Walnutt Can'd Chaires' at 18s per chair, one set for Hampton Court, St James, and 'London'.

Sources: DEFM; Amy Lim, 'The Furniture Patronage of Elizabeth Seymour (nèe Percy), Duchess of Somerset, 1667-1722', Furniture History (2021), p. 13.