Thomas Shearer in point of time, the first published document to show it. Shearer, like many of his contemporaries, was much given to devising "harlequin" furniture. He was a designer of high merit and real originality, and occupies a distinguished place among the little band of men, often, like himself, ill-educated and obscure of origin, who raised the English cabinet-making of the second half of the 18th century to an illustrious place in artistic history. Thomas Shearer Thomas Shearer was an 18th-century English furniture designer and cabinet-maker. Shearer was a craftsman and the author of most of the plates in "The Cabinet
Peter Chippendale Peter Chippendale Peter Chippendale (1862–1941) was an English footballer who played in The Football League as a centre-half for Accrington. Chippendale played six League games for Accrington and scored one League goal. Peter Chippendale made his League debut on 8 September 1888, in the first ever Football League game to be played at Anfield, then home of Everton. Accrington lost the match 2-1. Peter Chippendale scored his debut and only League goal in a 5–5 draw with Blackburn Rovers played at Leamington Road, then home of Blackburn Rovers on 15 September 1888. As a defender he played in a defence