- or
export business. A
cloth merchant might additionally own a
number of
draper's shops.
Cloth was
extremely expensive and
cloth merchants were
often very...
-
around 1593,
Walton moved to
London in his teens,
where he
worked as a
linen draper. In the capital, he
befriended the poet and
clergyman John Donne. A Royalist...
-
Cadbury was born on 12
August 1801 in
Birmingham to
Richard Tapper, a
linen draper, and his wife
Elizabeth Head Cadbury. He was from a
wealthy Quaker family...
- and
Coreggiai (saddlers). l'Università de'
Linaiuoli ("University of
Linen-
drapers")
added to the old
Linaiuoli guild not only the ****ociated Rigattieri...
- June 12
where the "Croppies" had been
under the
command of the
Lisburn linen draper,
Henry Munro. For over a month, the
severed heads of
Munro and three...
- News.
Dodgson was born in Liverpool, the
eight of
fifteen children of a
linen draper,
Pearson and
Hannah née Hay****.
After school, he
trained in drawing...
- philanthropist. The
second of the
three children of John
Wilson (1774–1834), a
linen draper, and Mary
Wilson (née Jones; 1766–1838),
Edward Wilson was born at Hampstead...
- the
comic tale of John
Gilpin a
linen draper of
Cheapside London, who was
probably based on a Mr Beyer, a
linen draper of the
Cheapside corner of Paternoster...
-
wealthy draper from
Cheapside in London, who
owned land at Olney, Buckinghamshire, near
where Cowper lived. It is
likely that he was a Mr Beyer, a
linen draper...
- of indigestion". He had
several apprenticeships (to a blacksmith, a
linen draper, and a weaver)
until he
became a
teacher in 1798. He
moved to England...
