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Belcher, Thomas, 25 Gt Portland St, London, upholder and undertaker (1783). Took out a Sun Insurance policy in 1783 for £300 of which utensils and stock accounted for £213. [GL, Sun MS vol. 313, p.

Belchier, John

Bennington & Co., address unrecorded, lampmakers (1832). On 13 August 1832 supplied 24 ornamental double branch socket lights for lustres in Library and Drawing Room for Windsor Castle, costing £29 6s. [PRO, LC 11/77]

Benson, W.A.S.

London; furniture designer and metalwork designer and manufacturer (b.1854-d.1924)

Bogaert(s) (or Bogeart), Peter

London; carver, gilder, upholder (fl. 1786–1819)

Bone, Henry

Boson, John

London; carver (fl.1720–d. 1743)

Browne & Co

53 University St, Fitzroy Sq., London; scagliola works (fl.1835–55)

Buckland, W., Exeter, Devon, cm (1814–16). Report in Exeter Flying Post, 21 July 1814 that his app., John Glanfield, had run away, describing him as ‘about 5 feet 5 inches high, fair complexion and slight made.

Chew, William

12 Lord St, Liverpool, Lancs.; upholder and cabinet maker (b. 1784–d. 1824)

Chippendale, Thomas snr

St. Martin's Lane, London; cabinet maker (b. 1718–d. 1779)

Cobb, John

Collett, Jonathan, ‘The King's Arms’, opposite Pall Mall, Charing Cross, London, glass cutter (1769–86). On 18 May 1769 supplied a ‘pair of two light Girandolles, richly ornamented’ at £9 9s for Alscot Park, Warks.

Collins, William, Tothill Fields, London, (1812–23).

Cooper, Joseph, London, carver, gilder, looking-glass maker, cm and u (1761–1828). From 1761 to 1797 at 20 Noble St, Foster Lane.

Cullen, James

Cushing, Samuel snr and jnr, Norwich, carvers and gilders (1770–1840). Samuel snr was app. to Benjamin Jagger and free by servitude, 21 September 1770.

Dishon, John Baptist, address unrecorded, gilder (1759). Gilded the state bed designed by Borra for Stowe, Bucks., now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Liverpool.

Dowbiggin(g) or Dowbiggen, Thomas

Flight & Kelly, Exeter-change, Strand, London, organ builders and mahogany case makers (1788–96). Trading as Flight, Son & Kelly, 1791–94. [D]

Foster, Edmund, Hull, Yorks., carver and gilder (c. 1762–1805). Rococo trade card, dating before 1784, gives address at the Golden Boy in the High Street’. Recorded in Lowgate from 1784–99; and North Church Side, 1803–05.

Foulger, Lockington

Walham Green, London; chair maker, turner (fl. 1773-80)

France, William snr

8 Long Acre and 101 St Martin's Lane, London; cabinet maker and upholder (b.1727–d.1773)

Freame

Worcester, Worcestershire; cabinet makers, upholsterers, auctioneers and appraisers (fl. c. 1800-1825)

Fuhrlohg, Christopher

24 Tottenham Court Road, between Percy Street and Hanaway Yard, 22 Gerard Street and 12 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London;