Preston, John, 349 Rotherhithe St, corner of Prince's St, London, u, undertaker and auctioneer (1781–1825). Son of Lewis Preston of Ludlow, Salop, shipwright. App. to Francis Pyner on 2 May 1781 and free of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude, 1 October 1788. Insurance records show him at the Rotherhithe address by August 1782 and insuring properties at 4 and 5 King St, Scots Place, Islington for £300. He is included in the list of master cabinet makers in Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. Traded at the Rotherhithe address until at least 1825. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; Sun MS vol. 387, p. 508]