Strickland & Jenkins

75 Long Acre, London, cabinet makers, upholsterers, undertakers and appraisers (fl. 1777–93)

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Trade card of Strickland & Jenskins Nephew to the late M^r Vile late Foreman to M^r Cobb CABINET MAKERS Upholders Appraisers & Undertakers at N^o 75 in Long Acre London, 1790 [D,2.608]. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Strickland & Jenkins were successors to John Cobb. Strickland was the nephew of William Vile and had probably been associated with the business of Vile and Cobb and later with John Cobb after his partner's death in September 1767.

A mahogany window seat is known with the signature in ink on the inside of the seat rail ‘Strickland September 1st 1763’. Strickland is also named in connection with the supply to Strawberry Hill in 1773 of a plumed bed hung with Aubusson tapestry and a set of white and gold elbow chairs from Paris.

On 16 April 1763 John Cobb paid Sally Strickland £64 but no subsequent payments are recorded in Cobb's bank account.

John Jenkins was Cobb's foreman. Strickland & Jenkins in addition to their work as cabinet makers and upholsterers were as undertakers and appraisers. Their only known commissions were for Alexander Wedderburn. A payment of £33 16s was made in 1777 to the partners. This was a year before Cobb's death. A further payment of £36 5s was made in 1787.

From 1794 John Jenkins traded on his own behalf at 75 Long Acre, his partner having probably retired or died. He is last recorded in 1808. 

Sources: DEFM; V&A archives; Country Life, 10 June 1954, p. 1896; Scottish Record Office, GD/64/Box 20/177/2.