-
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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- and
Coreggiai (saddlers). l'Università de'
Linaiuoli ("University of
Linen-
drapers")
added to the old
Linaiuoli guild not only the ****ociated Rigattieri...
- Newton.
Barrow was born in London. He was the son of
Thomas Barrow, a
linen draper by trade. In 1624,
Thomas married Ann,
daughter of
William Buggin of...
- wife, Anna
Maria Mordaunt. Her
diplomat father, the son of a
successful linen draper (though
distantly descended from
Poyntz family, an old
landowning noble...
