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Edward Prior (1800–1868), English watchmaker, London, pocket watch for the Turkish market. Jean Paul Garnier (1801–1869), French clockmaker, Paris , electric clocks. Carl August von Steinheil (1801–1870), German physician and astronomer, Munich , first electric clock.
John Ellicott (London, 1706–1772), was an English clock and watchmaker of the 18th century. His father, a Cornishman, John Ellicott (-1733), was also a clockmaker and had been admitted to the Clockmakers' Company in 1696.
Charles Cabrier II, son of Charles I and father of Charles III, was the most prominent clockmaker of the three namesakes. The Cabriers were a celebrated dynasty of Huguenot clockmakers who settled in London after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). [1]
Thomas Tompion, FRS (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the "Father of English Clockmaking". Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the world, and can command very high prices whenever outstanding examples appear at auction.
Jean-François Hobler (Morges, February 1727 - Soho, London, 25 June 1794 ) was a Swiss-born, naturalised-English, watchmaker. He migrated from Switzerland to London in the early to mid 18th century, John Francis Hobler (as he was commonly known) married Charlotte Elizabeth Claudon, circa 1753.
Thomas attended the same school and, when 14 or 15, was sent to London to be apprenticed to George Graham, a clock and watch maker who had trained under Thomas Tompion. Graham’s business was situated in Water Lane, Fleet Street. When Mudge qualified as a watchmaker in 1738 he began to be employed by a number of important London retailers.
Original portraits of many eminent clock and watchmakers; In 2019 the museum acquired a large portrait (970mm x 800mm) in a silvered frame, showing a well-dressed gentleman holding a fine and complicated watch, dated perhaps to the 1670s. The watch is very similar to the astronomical watch, c.1660, by Nathaniel Barrow, shown in Case 7 in the ...
John Tolson was born in 1691 in the City of London and was baptised on 30 November 1691 in St Magnus the Martyr. [1] He was the eldest surviving son of John Tolson, a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors [2] and his wife Alice (born in 1668) the daughter of Richard Rookes, a vintner, and Frances née Dryden and a cousin of the poets Dryden and Swift. [3]