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James Woolley or James Wolley (ca.1695 – 22 November 1786) was a watch and clockmaker from

Codnor Codnor is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. Codnor is a former mining village and had a population of 3,766 (including Cross Hill) taken at the 2011 Census. It is approximately 12 miles from Derby and ...

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Life

He was born ca 1695, the son of Samuel Woolley and Abigail Pinegar. He made turret clocks, one of which was installed in the

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, which he gifted to the Nottingham Corporation, and in return he was made an honorary burgess of Nottingham. He also made longcase clocks. He died at his house on Codnor Common on 22 November 1786,

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- Thursday 23 November 1786 a bachelor, and left his fortune to his two nephews. He signed his clocks "Wolley". Therefore this article should list his name as James Wolley.

Works

Public clocks include: *

1726, moved to

St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham St. Nicholas Church, known locally as St Nic's, is an Anglican parish church in Nottingham. The church, since 1953, is Grade II* listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a particularly significant building of more ...

1830. Now in the

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References

English clockmakers 1690s births 1786 deaths People from Codnor {{England-bio-stub