Woolley, George Outram, Piccadilly, London, cm, u, undertaker and auctioneer (1783–1829). Son of John Woolley of Gravesend, Kent, tallow chandler. App. to Francis Pyner snr of London, 5 November 1783 and transferred to Francis Pyner jnr on 1 January 1786. Free of the Upholders’ Co. by servitude, 17 November 1790. In 1793 subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book. Trading from an address at 196 Piccadilly by December 1800 when he took out insurance cover of £1,400 of which £600 was for utensils and stock. He was to remain at this address though the number 193 Piccadilly is given in two directories of the 1820s. The business he established was substantial and important. He is included in the list of master cabinet makers published by Sheraton in his Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. By January 1809 insurance cover had risen to £1,550 of which £800 was for stock and utensils. He was at this date using two houses in Piccadilly which had been inter-connected. On his billheads he described the business as a ‘Cabinet, Upholstery & Carpet Warehouse’ which would seem to imply a tendency to retail ready made goods of which a stock was maintained for immediate sale. Two accounts dated 1814–15 show however that he was prepared to undertake substantial commissions for the gentry. Chandos Leigh received from Woolley an account dated 18 October 1814 which included some goods delivered in the previous year and totalled £234 10s 6d. The largest sums concerned a mahogany octagon library table, the top covered in leather and fitted with eight drawer partitions for which £16 16s was charged and two folding dressing stands for which the same price was asked. A further bill in the following year mentioned an outstanding balance of £100 7s and totalled £132 15s 1d. Both invoices are made out to Chandos Leigh Esqr., London and may have been for a London house belonging to the Leigh family rather than Stoneleigh Abbey, Warks. [D; GL, Upholders’ Co. records; Sun MS vol. 419, ref. 712149; vol. 445, ref. 825515; Heal; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Leigh receipts, DR 18/5]