Rayner, Thomas jnr, Cambridge, chairmaker (1816–30). The Cambridge Chronicle and Journal reported on 19 April 1816, that ‘On Wednesday last Thomas Rayner jun., was committed to the town goal by John Purchas Esq., charged with stealing 6 chairs from a warehouse belonging to his employer Mr. Elliot Smith’. On 25 April he was sent to prison ‘for stealing six rush bottom chairs valued at eighteen shillings from his employer’. He is recorded as living in Cambridge in the Norwich poll bk of 1830. [Cambs. RO, Cambridge sessions records, 1808–18] R.W.