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Smith, Daniel (1780-1830)

Smith, Daniel, Windsor, Berks., cm, u, auctioneer, appraiser and undertaker (1780–1830). At Sheet St, 1782–91, Park St in 1798, but by 1824 at St Alban's St. Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. In 1782 took out insurance cover of £800 of which £600 was for utensils and stock. This would indicate a business of fairly substantial size by provincial standards, but in November 1791 the cover had fallen to £400 of which £100 was for utensils and stock. [D; poll bks; GL, Sun MS vol. 304, p. 504; vol. 381, p. 528]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.