Reid, William, London, u (1770). Employed by Thomas Chippendale and spent many weeks at Harewood House, Newby Hall and Nostell Priory, Yorks., erecting beds, putting up furniture, and general jobbing. In the summer of 1770 Samuel Popelwell, the Steward at Harewood, recorded in his Day Work Book payments to William Reid for stuffing the chairs in the Billiard Room. These are presumably the upholstered settee and open armchairs referred to in the accounts; and the ‘6 Mahogany Armed Chairs covered with Red Leather’ and ‘One Sofa with 2 Bolsters’ in that room at the time of the 1795 inventory. The sofa may be identified as the George III mahogany settee sold at Christie's, 1 April 1976, lot 42. [Leeds archives dept, Harewood MS 18/3: M3248; L756]