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London Merchant: RADCLIFFE, rad'klif, Ann (nee WARD), English novelist: b. London, England, July 9, 1764; d. there, Feb. 7, 1823. The daughter of a London merchant, she grew up in the society of well-to-do relatives, who introduced her to fashionable literary and intellectual circles. At the age of 23, she was married to William Radcliffe, an Oxford graduate who later became proprietor and editor of the English Chronicle.
The function of the fur skin merchant is to buy pelts and to assort them into bundles according to the needs of his customers. Very often the merchant also supplies the necessary financial credit to the manufacturer. He procures his skins either already dressed or buys them raw and has them dressed to meet his requirements.
Flint Glass.—Flint glass, so named because pulverized flint was used instead of sand at first, was the new mixture which gave English glass a dominant position all through the 18th and into the 19th centuries. It was the outgrowth of the incorporation of the London Glass-Sellers Company in 1673. This merchant group secured the services of George Ravenscroft, a chemist, who had a London glasshouse in the Savoy and a secluded experimental one at Henley on Thames. Here, by 1676, Ravenscroft produced a new mixture by addition of oxide of lead. From it dates the start of a truly English art of glassmaking. |
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