Wilson, Thomas; Wilson & Co.

22 Cathedral Yard, Exeter, Devon; cabinet maker and upholsterer (fl.1818–1840)

In April 1818 he advertised his business as a ‘FASHIONABLE UPHOLSTERY, CHAIR AND CABINET WARE-ROOMS’. He stocked Kidderminster, Brussels, Venetian and East India Hemp carpeting, paper hangings obtained from London sources, feathers and mahogany and fancy woods.

The business was referred to as Wilson & Company.

The rooms for storing and cleaning feathers were said to have been ‘lately completed … on the same construction as the principal houses in London’. The cabinet furniture offered for sale in March 1819 was declared to be ‘of their own manufacture’. In March 1823 their stock was stated to be priced ‘suited to the present depressed state of manufacture’.

Apart from the manufacture and sale of cabinet and upholstery goods they also operated a ‘General Agency Office’ in the name of Wilson, Patey & Co., surveyors, auctioneers and appraisers.

The sudden death of Thomas Wilson was announced on 17 January 1831. Nevertheless, Wilson & Co. continued to trade from the same address. 

Source: DEFM