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- Alexander Cumming
- Also known as
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Alexander Cumming
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primary name: Cumming, Alexander
- Details
- individual; clockmaker/watchmaker; Male
- Life dates
- 1732-1794
- Address
- Lived at 12 Clifford Street (off Bond Street), London until 1794.
The Dial and 3 Crowns, New Bond Street, London (1777-1783)
Fleet Street, London (1794)
- Biography
- Watchmaker. Born in Edinburgh in about 1732. Fellow of the Royal Society and honorary member of the Clockmakers' Company. His nephew John Grant (qv) took over the business.
Watch-paper in Heal Collection (Heal,39.147) states "Alex. Cumming...To make a Watch go Faster, turn the Regulator the same way you set forward the Hands, And to go Slower the Contrary." Heal's annotations on mount: "Alexander Cumming F.R.S."
- Bibliography
- Loomes, B. (2006). "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", N.A.G. Press, London
Britten, F.J. (1986). "Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers - A History of Styles in Clocks and Watches and their Mechanisms", Bloomsbury Books, London
Whyte, D. (2005), "Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Scotland", Mayfield Books, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
