Leech, Daniel

Berkeley Square, London; clerk and possibly cabinet maker (fl.1772)

He was first documented as John Linnell’s clerk in 1772, a role which involved the day-to-day running of Linnell’s business. He may have been the same Leech referred to as a cabinet maker in 1770.

Source: Kirkham, ‘The London Furniture Trade 1700-1870: The Entrepreneur Furniture Maker’, FurnitureHistory (1988).