Hands, Humphrey, Warwick, joiner (1723–43). Took out a Sun Insurance policy on 31 December 1723 for £300, £200 accounting for goods in his house. Probably the craftsman who supplied furniture to Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warks., between 1740–43, comprising several mahogany tables, and in February 1741 ‘frames with 2 Glasses for prints one for the Master of the Roles and one for Mr. Smith Gilt edges’, costing 6s; and ‘One Gilt frame for Adm. Vernon and a frame for port[rait] a bell’, 6s. [GL, Sun MS vol. 15, p. 349; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5]