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
George Carter (18th-century cricketer) years previously and his career may have begun in the 1730s. Very few players were mentioned by name in contemporary reports and there are no further references to Carter after 1749. George Carter (18th-century cricketer) George Carter (dates unknown) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket during the 1740s, chiefly associated with London Cricket Club. He is first recorded playing for London in a single wicket match at the Artillery Ground on Monday, 22 August 1748. Carter took part in two more single wicket contests in 1749, both played for high stakes, and was then a member of