Hensman, Thomas

New Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire; cabinet maker and upholsterer (fl. 1809–1835)

Recorded at no. 15, 1814–22, and no. 18 in 1830–35.

Submitted a bill to Mrs Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire on 26 April 1814 totalling £29 7s 2d, and including ‘A Maho.g Loo Table on a Grecian Claw Stand, best Castors’, £12 12s; ‘A fine green Cloth cover to D° made up with silk binding’, £1 2s; Kidderminster carpeting costing £21 3s 6d, cut and fitted over Brussels carpeting; and a hearth rug.

The bill head gave address of manufactory and warerooms at 15 New Street, which contained ‘a general Assortment of elegant Furniture’. Trade card, c.1800–15, recorded. [Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5; Landauer Collection, Metropolitan Museum, NY].

Source: DEFM