Poynton, Edward (1722-1737)
Poynton, Edward
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire; carver (fl. 1722–d. 1737)
One of the craftsmen patronised by the Warwick architect, Francis Smith. Recorded on the lead foundation plate (now lost) at Sutton Scarsdale House, Derbyshire dated 1724 as a ‘gentleman carver’. He was responsible for the Oak Room of this house (now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art), and also for stone carving.
He also worked at Chicheley House, Buckinghamshire, 1719– 21. In 1722 he undertook an ambitious memorial at West Stockwith, Nottinghamshire to William Huntingdon, a ‘ship carpenter’.
In 1729 he bound an apprentice named Watson. He died in 1737, and his will survives (Nottinghamshire Record Office).
Sources: DEFM; Gunnis; Records of Buckinghamshire, XVII, 1961, pt 1; Country Life, 8 June 1961, p. 1326; Geoffrey Beard, Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England, p. 276; Society of Genealogists, apprentice index].
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.