William Abdy
London silversmith.
Free by redemption 1752. Livery 1763. First mark as small worker 1763. Second and third marks 1767. Fourth and fifth marks 1769. Sixth mark (2 sizes, 1779). Seventh mark as plateworker 1790.
His son, William Abdy II, entered his first mark in 1790 shortly after his father’s death. Worked at Oat Lane, Noble Street.