Height: 78 in (198 cm)
Width: 69¹/₈ in (175.5 cm)
Depth: 12 in (30.5 cm)
Dudmaston Hall in the Severn Valley, Shropshire is a late 17th century country mansion now in the care of the National Trust. The estate has been in the Wolryche and Wolryche-Whitmore families since 1403 and a relation still lives there today.
George Simpson (1780 – 1839) was a cabinet-maker, as well as upholder and undertaker, whose workshops were located at 19 St. Paul’s Churchyard. He was the son of a surgeon and apothecary from Chatham, Kent. In 1793 he subscribed to Thomas Sheraton’s Drawing Book and in 1803 he was included in the list of master cabinet-makers in the Cabinet Dictionary. Little is know of Simson’s clientele although there are records of payments from the 2nd Viscount Palmerston and the Viscount Grimston at Gorhambury, Hertfordshire.