Rhodes, William, London, u and cm (1754–1804). Addresses given at Knight St in 1768; Ivy Lane in 1771; 127 Holborn, opposite Fetter Lane, 1777–1800; no. 27 in 1778; and Warwick Ct in 1802, no. 7 in 1803. Son of William Rhodes, victualler of Greenwich. App. to Richard Farmer and Nicholas Parkes, draper, on 27 May 1754. Admitted freeman of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude on 7 April 1763, and master in 1794. Took app. named William Williams, 1771– 78. In 1768 he employed one non-freeman for six weeks. Named in Sheraton's list of master cabinet makers, 1803. Employed to decorate Drayton House, Northants. when it was inherited by Lord George Sackville in 1769. The decoration was done in 1773–74. In 1771 Rhodes also supplied a pair of painted and carved side tables with marble tops costing £72 for either end of the Dining Room, and the chimney piece, costing £130. Possibly the William Rhodes whose death, aged 76, was reported in Gents Mag., November 1816. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; GL, City Licence bks, vol. 6; C. Life, 3 June 1965, p. 1349; C. Musgrave, Adam and Hepplewhite Furniture, p. 125]