GILBERT, JOHN 1 |
England, fl.1717-52, MIM NIM OIM PHIM |
Backstaves = OXF (1745), NMM, KEN (1730); Sundial = NMM; Telescope = D.(1971). |
apprenticed to John Johnson 3 in the Grocers' Company, 1709 free of the Company in 1717; took apprentices; made Biester's "portatis" instrument; undated instruments could have been made by John Gilbert 1 or 2. |
Little Tower Hill (1717); Postern Row, Tower Hill (1718-52); both in London. |
J. Brown 1; Taylor 2(178); Brewington 1; Goodison 1; NMM 2; USNM; Moskowitz 102; Crawforth 7; RSW. |
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