The Universal Director - Mortimers Directory.

 

The Universal Director -  Mortimer's Directory.

or the Nobleman and Gentleman's True Guide. 

to the Masters and Professors of the Liberal and Polite Arts and Sciences

Pub. 1763.

https://repository.tku.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/11150/4896/1/LAUD_211-19-01.pdf

A very useful publication giving names and rough addresses of Artists, Craftsmen and Men in the Medical Professions.

Published here as an adjunct to my researches into St Martin's Lane and its Environs in the long 18th Century.

I haven't posted the complete directory but have included the list of Artists Sculptors etc and some Medical practitioners.

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Above -

Babel of Long Acre.

Bannerman,  at Pons Coffee House, in Castle Street, Leicester Fields. (Scottish Painter).

Basire, Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields.

Bermingham, Gt Queen St.

Burford on the Pavement, St Martins Lane Carver and Gilder.

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Above

Carter Statuary, Hyde - Park Corner.

Sir Henry Cheere - Old Palace Yard, Westminster.

John Cheere. Hyde - Park Corner.

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 Above.

Richard Cooper, Engraver in Peter's Court on the Pavement, St Martin's Lane.

Engraved Virgin and Child after Corregio - 1763 - 64. 

Son of the Scottish engraver see - https://www.kcmgalleries.com/auction-lot/correggio-virgin-and-child-etching-with-engraving_83A4E29A8E

Cooper worked le Bas studio in Paris; exhibited in London, Incorporated Society of Artists 1761, 1764, 1783 and Free Society in 1761, 1762; visited Italy, 1771-3(6?) [see Ingamells]

William Collins, Statuary, Channel Row Westminster.

Dall Scene Painter, Castle Stret, Opposite Cranbourne Alley.

Arther Devis, Great Queen Street.

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Herbert Gomond, Seal Engraver etc. Chandois St, Covent Garden.

John Gwynn, Architect. Little Court, Castle Street.

Samuel Harvey, Statuary, upper end of  Masham St. Westminster.

Francis Hayman, St Martin's  Lane Opposite May's Buildings

Richard Hayward, Statuary. near Dover St, Piccadilly.

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Thomas Major on the Paved Stones, St Martin's Lane.

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Ref Pars and Shipley - https://committees.westminster.gov.uk/documents/s16746/Cabinet%20Member%20Report%20William%20Shipley.pdf

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Angibaud, St Martins Lane between the Two Slaughter's Coffeee Houses.

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Peers Clark, Surgeon, May's Buildings.

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Samuel Ryley, Surgeon, Lancaster Court.

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Bayley, Apothecary St Martin's Lane.

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Bowden, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

Butcher, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

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Richards, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.