Details of Sculptor

Surname

Cartwright

Alternative Surname

First Name

Thomas III

Initial of Surname

C

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

Year of Death

1740

Biographical Details

He was the son of Joseph Cartwright and the grandson of Thomas Cartwright I. His father, who had become free of the Masons’ Company by patrimony in 1673, died in 1702, the year in which Thomas himself was admitted to the freedom of the Company, also by patrimony (26 March 1702). In 1733 Henry Hoare employed him at one of his houses, possibly Stourhead. The Hoare partnership ledgers have an entry for 20 December 1733, ‘To Joh [or Jos] Cox’s bill to Tho: Cartwright £50’.
Thomas’s son, Newman Cartwright, was apprenticed to his father in 1723 and was working with him in 1731, the year in which he became free. Thomas died in 1740 and was survived by his widow Elizabeth, who received a pension from the Masons’ Company until her death in 1770.
Literary References: Knoop and Jones 1935, 38 n4; Gunnis 1968, 88; Webb 1999, 6
Archival References: Hoare Partnership Ledger, 1725-34; Masons’ Co, Court Book 1731 (freedom); Freemen, fols 9, 10