No record of apprenticeship or freedom. First mark entered as plateworker, in partnership with William Fountain on 29th July 1791. Address: 13 Hosier Lane, West Smithfield. Partnership apparently dissolved by 1st September 1794, when Fountain entered a separate mark.

Second mark alone, 10th September 1794, same address. Moved to 8 St John’s Square, Clerkenwell on 1st April 1811.

Heal records the partnership as above and Pontifex alone, both same dates; and Pontifex and Fountain, silversmiths, same address, 1796. His work, particularly fine silver-gilt dessert-dishes and baskets, shows a high standard of execution and delicacy of design.