Haworth (or Hayworth), Samuel

London; carver and gilder (1749–79)

Recorded at Rose Street, Covent Garden (1749); Denmark Street (1763); no. 8 by 1779 [London poll books and directories].

Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754.

In 1763 he worked at Egremont House, London [West Sussex Record Office, Petworth II, 6615].

In 1764 he submitted two designs to the governors of Middlesex Hospital for a frame for the portrait by R. E. Pine of the Duke of Northumberland. He supplied it at a cost of £19 19s 6d.

In 1766 he was involved in a matter of arbitration between Sir Lawrence Dundas and the upholder, Samuel Norman, over the latter's charges for gilding the gallery at Moor Park [Gilbert, Chippendale, pp. 158–59].

In 1773 Haworth was commissioned to carve portraits of the King and Queen to ornament hob grates to commemorate the granting of a Royal Charter of Incorporation from King George III to the Carron Company, Scotland.

Samuel's son, Henry, worked at Carron from 1779 until his death in 1781, when his son, William, took over, remaining for fifty-six years. [Connoiseur, May-August 1963, pp. 21–24; R. Lister, Decorative Cast Ironwork in Great Britain]

See Henry and William Haworth.