Grignion, Thomas (1)

Grignion, Thomas

Englischer Uhrmacher

Thomas Grignion wurde 1713 geboren. Er verstarb 1784. Thomas war der Sohn von Daniel Grignion (1684-1763), der 1688 aus Frankreich nach England kam. In seinem Buch "The Early Clockmakers of Great Britain" schreibt Brian Loomes, dass die Familie Grignion als "dealer and finisher" geführt wurden. Er wurde Geschäftspartner seines Vaters mit dem Firmennamen Grignion & Son. Die Firma war ansässig in "the Kings Arms & Dial", Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, London. Thomas Grignion junior wurde nachfolger im Betrieb bis um 1825.

Thomas Grignion, the first of a celebrated family of clockmakers, is stated in the inscription of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, already quoted, to have brought to perfection in 1740 'the horizontal principle in watches and the dead beat in clocks,' and to have made 'the time-piece in the pediment at the end of this parish church, destroyed by fire A.D. 1795.' A new turret clock with bells was made for the church in 1797 by Thomas Grignion the younger. The firm started at the 'King's Arms and Dial' in Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, with Daniel and Thomas Grignion as partners, who described themselves as finishers to the late Daniel Quare. One of their watches, a fine repeater with beautifully enamelled case, is of about the year 1730, and another in the Dunn Gardner collection has the hall-mark of 1748. Thomas Grignion junior, who succeeded as head of the firm, was born in 1713 and died in 1784; a watch by him, in a repoussé case, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1775 the firm was styled Grignion & Son, and a third Thomas Grignion was at the head of it between 1800 and 1825.

Eine Uhr von Thomas Grignion befindet sich im Victoria and Albert Museum.

Weiterführende Informationen

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