- 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...
-
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...
- his
death in 1616,
Whitaker noted that he owed "Christopher Levite, a
linen draper of the city of York" just over £5.
Trained as a York merchant, Levett...
- 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...
- He
started to run,
accompanied by the
unnamed receiver of the bet, a
linen draper named Barham Wise and a
photographer named Hamerson Burns, who followed...
-
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...
-
April 1824 – 6
September 1896) was
Mayor of
Christchurch in 1870–1871. A
linen draper from the
Manchester area, he
emigrated with his
family to Christchurch...
- 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...
- Paul's
School in 1776, then
placed him in a
London apprenticeship with a
linen draper, but
young John ran away at the age of
eighteen and
joined Charles Mates'...
