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| | Thomas Chippendale (1718 - 1779) was baptised on 5 June 1718 at Otley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Thomas Chippendale (1718 - 1779) was baptised on 5 June 1718 at Otley, a small market town in Wharfedale, Yorkshire, the only child of John Chippendale (1690 - 1768), joiner and his first wife Mary (1693 - 1729), daughter of Thomas Drake, stonemason of Otley. |
 | | The earliest trustworthy evidence of Chippendale's presence in London is his marriage licence recording this event at St George's Chapel, Mayfair "19 May 1748 Thomas Chippendale and Catherine Redshaw of St Martin-in-the-Fields". |
 | | Thomas Chippendale junior, who became a first class cabinet maker and designer in his own right, played an increasingly important part in the enterprise, enabling his father to retire, perhaps on the grounds of ill health, in mid summer 1776 when he took a modest house in Lob's Fields (now Derry Street), Kensington. |
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