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The agency was founded by James Shears (c1750-1820) and continued by his two sons Daniel Towers Shears (1782-1860) and James Henry Shears (1788-1855) and subsequently by William Shears. James Shears was married to Ann Pitcher on 16 June 1772 at St Giles-without-Cripplegate, London. William Gore. Gore first seems in London directories in 1768 with premises at Fleet-ditch (an earlier identify for Fleet Market). In 1770 the primary mention occurs of William Gore at 67 Fleet-market, the deal with at which the company was to stay until at the least 1822. By 1779 Gore had taken James Shears into partnership and the agency grew to become Gore & Wood Ranger Power Shears website. In about 1785 Gore either retired or died and Shears continued the enterprise in his identify alone. Both Gore and Shears had been members of the London livery company, the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers. In 1799 he was elected to the Corporation of town of London as Councillor for the ward of Farringdon Without. |
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