Steward, Henry

Hogg Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; upholder, cabinet maker, chairmaker and auctioneer (1766–70)

In October 1766 advertised ‘walnut-tree Card Tables, neatly lined at £1.1s each, Mahogany ditto £2.2s’. His auctioneering activities extended some distance from Bury St Edmunds and in August 1767 he advertised a sale of stock at Newmarket, Suffolk [Cambridge Chronicle, 11 October 1766, 8 August 1767, 2 June 1770]. On 6 February 1768 he advertised in the Ipswich Journal ‘… A Cabinet and Chair Maker is wanted: whoever brings Tools with him may be sure of Constant Work. Likewise a turn’d Pin Chair Maker…’.

Source: DEFM; Parker, ‘The Elusive Turn-pin Chair’, Regional Furniture (1990).