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J F Clarke & Sons J F Clarke & Sons was a firm of gas engineers and iron founders, active in the City of London in the second half of the 19th century. The firm owned a foundry at 41, Featherstone St, Finsbury, just north of the City of London; and a showroom at 49 Moorgate, in the City.
The firm was founded by John Farrand Clarke (1820 – 1898) who is said to have started the business in 1836[1]. Clarke was the son of a watchmaker in Bethnal Green[2]. He described himself as a ‘Gas Steam and Hot Water Engineer’ in 1857[3]. The 1861 census describes him as a ‘‘gas fitter employing 7 men and 4 boys.’
By the 1870s John Farrand Clarke was working in partnership with his sons Robert (1846 - 1922), Alfred (1851 - 1912) and Arthur (1854 - 1922). JF Clarke retired from the partnership in 1892 leaving Robert and Alfred to run the business. J F Clarke & Sons was incorporated in 1906[4] but dissolved by 1916, perhaps a consequence of Alfred’s death in 1912 .
- ^ Illustrated London and its representatives of commerce etc, 1893, 139.
- ^ See Old Bailey Online. 9 September 1818, for a case involving his father, also John Farrand Clarke.
- ^ ‘Pure Water An improved Sanitary Filter, designed by Dr Lethaby, from 10s 6d each Manufactured solely by J. F. Clarke, Gas Steam and Hot Water Engineer, 55a Moorgate Street Bank EC’ The Lancet, 15 August 1857, 158.
- ^ The National Archives, BT 31/11370/87175. Company No: 87175; J F Clarke and Sons Ltd. Incorporated in 1906. Dissolved before 1916.