Fox, Solomon, Wardour St, London, cm (1766–1808). Recorded at no. 38, 1790–93, and no. 33 in 1808. Took out Sun Insurance policies in 1777 for £800 on his house; and on 16 February 1786 for £400 on his house in Grafton St, Tottenham Ct Rd. Carried out work at Welbeck Abbey from June 1766 to January 1777 for which he was paid £281 1s 1d. Probably the Solomon Fox who supplied items to Sir John Griffin Griffin of Audley End, Essex, 1780–83, including in 1780 ‘a long dressing table with looking glass and 4 Bolbels’(?) costing £3 13s 6d; in 1781 ‘New Mahogany boxes and new frames, and repairs to boxes and glasses & frames’, costing £3 16s 3d for Sir John's London house in New Burlington St; and in 1782 was paid £10 3s for cleaning and repairing furniture, curtains and carpets. Between 1782–83 he received a total of £16 8s 9d for laying carpets, putting up curtains, carrying out further repairs, and on 14 February 1783 supplying a mahogany library table for Sir John's London house. For there Fox also supplied ‘a small Picture frame in Burnish'd gold & a piece of plate glass to D°’, costing £7 6s in 1783. As Lord Howard de Walden, Sir John Griffin Griffin continued to patronize Fox, who in June 1784 submitted a bill totalling £23 7s 3d, which included furniture repairs, providing two 4-post bedsteads ‘All Stain'd & Polished’; bedding, pink and white cotton bed hangings, and a mahogany night stool with ‘white Stoan Pann’. In 1785 Fox was paid for further furniture repairs and alterations; and in 1788, £17 6s for a nue glass cutt into a mahogany Fraim’, and making two mahogany frames ‘with Back feet’. In 1789 he supplied a ‘stand for a screen on Pillar & Claws Japand holes through the stick & 2 Ivery Pins to D°’ costing £8 6s. [D; GL, Sun MS vol. 335, p. 455; vol. 268, p. 8; Notts. RO, DD5 P3/4, Welbeck Abbey accounts; Essex RO, D/DBy/A38/9; A212; A39/5; A40/11; A41/5 and 11; A42/12; A43/6; A46/6; A47/ 3]