West, Harmond

London?; joiner (fl. 1543)

Made furniture for The More, a Hertfordshire house taken from Cardinal Wolsey by Henry VIII in 1529. It included two 10ft long tables, two pairs of trestles and a dozen joined stools. In March 1543 he made six close stools of wainscot, two each for Hampton Court Palace, Whitehall and Greenwich.

Source: Hayward, ‘William Green, Coffer Maker to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I’, Furniture History (2000).