Shelton, John, Nottingham, joiner and cm (1781–99). Took as apps Jo. Killingley (1781), Samuel Webb (1783), Thomas Hazzard (1786), William Simpson (1789), Thomas Walker (1792) and John Henshaw (1796). In 1782 insured his house for £150. By 1784 had entered a partnership with John Eley and in July of that year advertised for craftsmen. Insurance cover in April 1786 amounted to £600 and of this £120 was for stock and utensils at Friar Lane and £420 for stock in a yard, probably timber. The partnership of Shelton & Eley were one of the makers who endorsed the Nottingham Cabinet and Chair Makers’ Book of Prices, 1791, and subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. By the late 1790s the partnership appears to have ended and John Shelton is shown trading on his own behalf from Friar Lane, 1798–99. [D; app. bk; GL, Sun MS vol. 302, p. 65; vol. 336, p. 329; Nottingham Journal, 31 July 1784]