Watts, John, Compton St, Soho, London, cm and u (1764–79). App. to Ince & Mayhew in 1764, the premium being £105. By 1775 trading in Compton St where his insurance cover was £2,000 of which £1,520 was for utensils and stock. Bankruptcy announced November 1778. In February 1771 he supplied a mahogany exercising chair ‘with Gothick Back & Elbows’ to John Grimston which was charged at £6 6s with an additional 10s 6d for a deal packing case for its transport to York. In 1778 undertook work for the Earl of Egremont for Petworth House, Sussex. He altered the squab of a large sofa and supplied a new canvas cover at a cost of £3 10s. [Furn. Hist., 1974; GL, Sun MS vol. 239, p. 482; Gents Mag., November 1778; Ingram, Leaves from a Family Tree, p. 78; V&A archives]