Lochee, John Charles

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see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

John Charles Lochee 13 Poland St ratebooks 1787-1790 / Gunnis, Dict British Sculptors, Pyke, Wax Modellers, born 4.11.1751, RA schools 1772, King St Soho, worked for Wedgwood, wax modeller to Duke of Clarence 1786 11 Rupert St, Haymarket, wife Elizabeth Ann (Devis?), dau Elizabeth Ann bapt 25.3.1782, son Henry Belew bapt 14.11.1784 St James / Old Bailey 7.5.1788 witnesses John Lockee Poland St and his servant Mary Davis / Society for Encouragement of Arts &c 1790 p231 Silver Medallion to John Charles Lochee of Poland St for bust of Prince of Wales / Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies 1790 Miss K-n, Miss H-rm-t-ge, Miss Eliz-h Sm-th 13 Poland St / John Charles Lochee modeller Poland St bankrupt March 1791 / The Attic Miscellany (1791) p109 Epigram On passing the door of a celebrated modeller in Poland Street.  I saw her Ladyship alight, - The patriot's chaise was just in sight: - "Tis' but a shabby house, I ween; And what can such a meeting mean?"- "They meet," a passenger replied, "To have their likeness multiplied!" / A strange combination of circumstances, if Lochee let his rooms to ladies of the town and they never paid their rent that might explain his bankruptcy / And see Wallis, George for a doctor at same address in May 1790. John Lochee of King St bur 11.12.1815 age 39 at St Paul Covent Garden perhaps his son or more likely a son of Lewis Lochee DNB d. 1791, see Nat Arch HO 42/28/144 f379 re Lochee in Plymouth age 16 in 1794