1726 - born in Thirsk, baptised 19 March

1740 -apprenticed in the Goldsmiths' Company to the London engraver and printseller John Tinney on 2 May;

1753 - becam free of the company on 5 April

produced a number of prints for the publisher John Boydell, sometimes in collaboration with William Woollett.

after 1753 - located at premises in Great Kirby Street, London

by 1763 - at the corner of Nevils Court, Fetter Lane, London