Newman, Thomas (1768-77)
Newman, Thomas, next to the Great Rooms, Ship Lane, Oxford, cm (1768–77). In April 1777 advertised the display of a female dwarf aged 19 in his showrooms. By June 1777 Thomas Nelson was dead and his wife Sarah gave notice to her late husband's debtors to pay her, or Maycock, Jesus College Lane. [Poll bk; Jackson's Oxford Journal, 21 April 1777, 28 June 1777]
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.