Gee can also be included in the list of master cabinet makers hooked up to Sheraton’s Cabinet Dictionary, 1803. The final directory listing for Gee is 1823-24. On eight November 1804 Thomas Ayliffe Gee was appointed Turner in Ordinary to the King jointly along with his father and briefly, in one directory of 1809 the agency is listed as ‘Gee & Sons, Turners & chair makers’. Directories show this business working as late as 1796 on the Wardour St handle however this could also be failure on the a part of the listing writer to delete the entry. Simon Jervis, ‘John Gee of Wardour Street’, Furn. Gee, Thomas Ayliffe, see John Gee. Gent, John, London, clock case maker (1778-84). At 18 Fore St, Cripplegate in 1778 and 70 Wood St, Cheapside in 1784. In each years he insured his house for £100. Gee, William Charles, 22 Bridge Home Pl., Newington Causeway, London, u, mattress and mattress maker (1837-39). Successor to Martha Gee.
Supplied 108 turkey work chairs, 2 Russia leather-based folding stools for the clerks and 7 turkey carpets for the House of Peers and 48 turkey work chairs and three massive arm chairs en suite for the House of Commons Committee Room throughout the period 1729-33. In 1733 was accountable for the decoration of the ‘French Chapel’ for the wedding of the Princess Royal to the Prince of Orange. In 1731-32 made up a green damask four submit standing bed, the frame equipped by Henry Williams, at a cost of £30 for Hampton Court. The final Osterley fee recognized was the carving in 1784 of four elm pineapples for the top of the nook turrets which value £24. Gibson’s enterprise is last recorded in 1745, and by 1747 the premises on the sign of ‘The King’s Arms’ was in the occupation of James Brown, u and cm. Gibson, Christopher, ‘The King’s Arms’, St Paul’s Churchyard, London, u (1730-45). In April 1730 he acquired payment of £4 15s for chairs provided to the East India Co. for East India House in Leadenhall St. An extra £4 was paid by the same Co. in September 1732 for ‘eight chairs’. It is feasible that Christopher Gibson could have taken over the business of Joseph Grimstead who is recorded trading at ‘The King’s Arms’ in St Paul’s Churchyard, 1707-12. The Grimstead who was his companion in 1742 was little question related to Joseph Grimstead. Gibson & Grimstead, see Christopher Gibson.
Christopher Walker, joiner and cm, 10 June 1753 and free as a joiner, 1756-57. On 5 July 1768 took an app. Gibson, John jnr, Newcastle, u, joiner and cm (c. Gibson, Henry, Lancaster, joiner and cm (1756-68). App. Gibson, Robert, Bristol, cm, u and undertaker (1815-40). At eleven Mercant St, 1815-21, and 3 Old King St, 1821-33. In 1826 however an tackle in Ellbroad St is recorded in one listing. Gibson, George, fifty three Ratcliffe Highway, London, cm, undertaker and u (1774-1839). The long interval of buying and selling of this business means that there will need to have been two George Gibsons involved. Gibson, Richard, Lancaster, cm (1764-99). App. Gibson, John, Wardour St, Soho, London, cm and u (1817-37). At 39 Wardour St, 1817-21, but from 1822 the tackle is given as Ship Yd, Wardour St. In 1821 took out insurance cover of £1,000 on stock, utensils and items in trust in workshops, warehouses and stables and in open yard. Mrs G. M. Douglas, Bath, 1978, three chairs, painted green, stamped ‘GEE WARDOUR ST’ and ‘WG’.
Personal House, Monmouthshire, 1985, 8 chairs, ebonised, all stamped ‘GEE’ and ‘IT’, and a pair of settees, en suite, each stamped ‘GEE’ and (?) ‘WP’. Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1976, 2 armchairs, ebonised and painted, stamped J inside G and ‘IT’. For work at the East India House, Leadenhall St he received £86 3s in August 1756 and £86 1s in October of the identical 12 months. One fee for Harewood House, Yorks. His earliest commission was in connection with the inside design and furnishing of the new Mansion House. Submitted an account dated 11 April 1772 for an ‘Old Japan Box & stand’ charged at £22 in reference to Croome Court, Worcs. The earliest account of July 1739 was for eight chairs which with some labour expenses got here to £8 8s 6d. More chairs and a table amounted to £3 5s and were charged in the following 12 months.