Parran, Benjamin, at the ‘Golden Spread Eagle in Long Acre, London’, cm and u (1741–84). In 1741 Benjamin Parran was app. to his uncle, Benjamin Goodison, of St Martin-in-theFields. [PRO, 16/49] He was among the subscribers to Chippendale's Director, 1754. At the death of his uncle in 1767 Parran continued the business and began to supply the Royal Household. A 1769 account [BM] for furniture supplied to the Duke of Newcastle by Messrs Goodison and Parran indicates that he was for a time in partnership with Benjamin Goodison jnr. The 1774 Westminster poll bk registers Parran at Long Acre. He was evidently bankrupt in 1776 when his Royal Household payments were received by a John Dubourg, assignee in a commission of bankruptcy. [PRO, LC9/322–23] The Sun Insurance Co. insured his household utensils, goods and stock at 81 Long Acre for £200 in 1778 and at 133 Drury Lane for £400 in 1780. [GL, Sun MS vol. 264, p. 650 and vol. 284, p. 388] Royal Household accounts show an association with William Gates in 1783, and John Russell in 1784. Parran is recorded in the Royal Household accounts from 1757–84. He continued the Goodison tradition of providing pier glasses (which Goodison had ‘inherited’ from his master James Moore), supplying in 1768 an ‘oval pier glass in an elegant carved frame and high festoon ornaments, painted three times in flake white’ for the Whitehall office of the Earl of Hillsborough, Secretary of State for American Affairs. However, much of his work for the apartments and offices at St James's, Hampton Court and the Houses of Commons and of Peers was inexpensive tables and bookcases, in addition to repairs and cleaning. In 1784 Parran and John Russell sent in bills together for a ‘wainscot basinstand’ supplied for the King's House at Newmarket, and for a writing table ordered for the Council Office, Whitehall. L.K.