Dickson Downing ca.1701-1745
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Dickson DOWNING ca.1701-1745
Biographical Note
A London resident who apparently inherited significant wealth from his mother Elizabeth in 1713, but subsequently lost much of it through unsound investment. When he made his will in 1743, he was living in the parish of St Giles in the Fields.
Books
Downing used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 8993). The extent of his library is not known; his brief will left all his property to his wife Bridget, but also refers to his son George who went on to use an amended form of the bookplate as his own (Franks 8994).
Sources
- Will of Dickson Downing, The National Archives PROB 11/741/187.
- Dickson Downing, The King's Candelsticks.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.