Editing Thomas Chippendale (section)

==Life==
[[File:Thomas Chippendale's blue plaque - geograph.org.uk - 1937847 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Blue plaque]] to Chippendale's memory in the place of his birth]]
Chippendale was born in [[Otley]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England in June 1718. He was baptised on 5 June.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Chippendale|title=Thomas Chippendale | type = Biography, Furniture, & Facts |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |accessdate= 14 December 2021}}</ref> He was the only child of John Chippendale (1690–1768), joiner, and his first wife Mary (née Drake; 1693–1729). He received an elementary education at [[Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley]].<ref>"Thomas Son of John Chippindale of Otley joyner bap ye 5th", [[Otley]]: Yorkshire Parish Register, June 1718.</ref> The Chippendale family had long been involved with the wood working trades and so he probably received his basic training from his father, though it is believed that he was also trained by Richard Wood in [[York]], before he relocated to London.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.thechippendalesociety.co.uk/thomas.htm |title=Thomas Chippendale – Cabinet Maker |publisher=The Chippendale Society |date= 3 July 2007 |access-date= 5 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528212112/http://www.thechippendalesociety.co.uk/thomas.htm |archive-date= 28 May 2013}}</ref> Wood later ordered eight copies of the ''Director''. On 19 May 1748, he married Catherine Redshaw at St George's Chapel, [[Mayfair]] and they had five sons and four daughters.

During 1749, Chippendale rented a modest house in Conduit Court, near [[Covent Garden]]. In 1752, he relocated to Somerset Court, off the [[Strand, London|Strand]]. In 1754, Chippendale relocated to 60–62 [[St Martin's Lane]] in London, where for the next 60 years the family business operated, until 1813 when his son, Thomas Chippendale (Junior), was evicted for bankruptcy.  During 1754, he also began a partnership with James Rannie, a wealthy Scottish merchant, who put money into the business at the same time as Chippendale produced the first edition of the ''Director''. Rannie and his bookkeeper, Thomas Haig, probably cared for the finances of the business. His wife, Catherine, died during 1772. After James Rannie died in 1766, Thomas Haig seems to have borrowed £2,000 from Rannie's widow, which he used to become Chippendale's partner. One of Rannie's executors, Henry Ferguson, became a third partner and so the business became Chippendale, Haig and Co. Thomas Chippendale (Junior) assumed management of the business in 1776 allowing his father to retire. He relocated to what was then called Lob's Fields (now known as Derry Street) in Kensington.  Chippendale married Elizabeth Davis at Fulham Parish Church on 5 August 1777. He fathered three more children.  In 1779, Chippendale relocated to [[Hoxton]] where he died of [[tuberculosis]] and was buried at [[St Martin-in-the-Fields]] on 16&nbsp;November 1779.

There is a statue and memorial plaque dedicated to Chippendale outside The Old Grammar School Gallery in Manor Square, in his home town of [[Otley]], near [[Leeds]], Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas Chippendale|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/thomas-chippendale/|publisher=Victoria & Albert Museum |access-date=13 September 2016|location=London|date=2016}}</ref> There is a full-size sculpted figure of Thomas Chippendale on the façade of the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London.<ref name="V&A"/>