[George Granville, afterwards Duke of Sutherland]
THE LIFE OF GEORGE ROMNEY
George Romney was a Cumberland lad, born in 1734, of parents who were in humble circumstances living at Dalton in the Fells.
His father was an ingenious man who lived on his own farm as a yeoman, but who followed also the pursuits of a joiner and cabinet-maker, and who was one of the first persons in the north to see and make use of the newly imported wood mahogany, from which he made a chest of drawers out of a sailor's chest brought from the West Indies.