(By courtesy of Surgeon-Major W. Savile Henderson.)
LONG-CASE EIGHT-DAY CLOCK.
Maker, John Weatherilt (Liverpool).
Date, 1780-85.
(Reproduced by courtesy of George H. Hewitt, Esq., J.P.)
William Lister is another member of the same family who made long-case clocks. In his dials a noticeable feature is the absence of the hour circle as being separate from the rest of the plate. The dial was made in one piece and attached to a back-plate of brass.
Pattison, another Yorkshire maker, made long-case clocks similar to those of William Lister.
John Hartley, of Halifax, about 1770, was the maker of a thirty-hour grandfather clock in oak case with brass square dial and moon and date lunettes. Titus Bancroft, of Sowerby Bridge, 1822, a church-clock maker, also made grandfather clocks.
John Hallifax, of Barnsley, who died in 1750, made a fine long-case clock now at Wentworth House.
Gilbert Chippindale, of Halifax, 1781, is another maker of fine clocks. A fine example of his work is illustrated (p. [219]).
R. Henderson, of Scarborough, early eighteenth century, is another Yorkshire maker. Richard Midgley, 1720-40, of Halifax, made a number of clocks still treasured locally. Samuel Pearson is known about 1790, and John Stancliffe, of Bark-island, is another local maker.