Osborn, Arthur

‘The Three Chairs’, Paternoster Row, London; upholsterer (fl. 1704–36)

In 1704 Osborn was contracted to supply a hundred beds and bedding for Greenwich Hospital to a pattern supplied. The beds were to cost £1 18s each. The beds supplied may not have been particularly comfortable, for the Clerk of Works was instructed to ‘make the battens thinner so that they give somewhat’.

In 1716–17 he supplied six chairs for the Library at St Paul's Cathedral, London, and undertook some repairs.

In 1717 he made and put up four curtains for which £3 7s 6d was paid.

Shown taking an apprentice in 1711 [Society of Genealogists apprentice index].

His insurance cover in 1726 came to £500 [The London Archives (TLA), Sun MS vol. 23, p. 164].

Sources: DEFM; Heal; Wren Society, VI, pp. 31, 49; XV, pp. 221–22.