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Surname	Brewer	Alternative Surname
First Name	William, of Box and Colerne	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1761 - c1836
Year of Death
Biographical Details	Brewer was apprenticed to Henry Hill of Marlborough, ‘Carver’, in 1761 (Apprenticeship Books, 1760-63, TNA, IR 1/54 fol 116). He executed monuments and tablets in marble and stone, repeating a charming design with a bow at the top on several occasions. In 1799 he supplied stone and provided masonry work at Dodington Park, Glos, when James Wyatt rebuilt the house for Christopher Codrington (Codrington Archives, cited by RG/JP, 2, 181). The William Brewer who was paid £120 for lions for the gate piers at Bowood in 1853 was, presumably, a descendant of this sculptor (Archives, Marquess of Lansdowne, in GPC). Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 61