David Gay

David Gay
File:Gay, David.jpg
Born	1826
Residence	74 Cheapside, EC
Occupation	photographer
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1867.07.15 last listed elected_ASL 1864.04.05

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House Notes

1864.11.15 Thanks were voted to Mr Gay, for his liberal offer to photograph specimens for the Society.

Notes From Elsewhere

David Gay of Cheapside, London and was taken between 1861 and 1867 (as these were the years he was active at this studio address) [ebay photo]
Gay, David
Born 1826. Date of death unknown.
Biography
Gay, David
Born in Beverly, Yorkshire 1826.
Christened July 6 1827 in Hull.
Md Elizabeth Ann (b Deptford 1825).
3 sons & 3 daughters.
STUDIOS: 1. 1 Union Place, Blackheath Road, Greenwich 1857 - 1859.
2. 74 Cheapside, City of London 1861 - October 1866. Succeeded by Dyer Photographic Portrait Co.
3. 57 Cheapside, City of London 1867 - 1868.
4. 39 Spring Street, Hyde Park, Paddington 1869 - 1872. Successors to A Frankel; succeeded by T Worden. Aka Sussex Garden Studio.
1861: photographer living at 7 St Germain's Villas, Lewisham Road, Lewisham.
1871: photographer living at 39 Spring Street, Hyde Park, Paddington.
1881: photo enameller living at 2 Shirley Villas, Hanwell.
1901: retired, living in Ealing.
Bankrupt November 25 1864 (London Gazette 1864 p 6331); application for discharge January 20 1865; discharged February 22 1865.
Bankrupt (2) October 19 1866 (London Gazette 1866 p 5624); application for discharge December 17 1866.
New process of photosculpture patented by Gay - BJP October 13 1865.
David & Richard Gay (? brothers) trading as Staffordshire Permanent Portrait Company in Hanley, Staffordshire, bankrupt April 10 1879.
Date of death unknown.
COLLECTIONS: Greenwich Archives (photos of Coombe Farm, Greenwich August 11 1858 + diary of Roberts family, farm owners, with photographic details.
LITERATURE: Photo of HMS Agamemnon, Greenwich 1857. Christie auction catalogue May 10 1991 no 43; David Keys. Museum gives "lost landscape" back to Docklands. IN Independent December 23 1989 p 8, illus (panoramic photo of Thames at Greenwich 1856 - 1857, acquired by Museum in Docklands - possibly by Gay, or A J Melhuish).
Occupations
Photographer [List all] 1857
Photo Enameller [List all] 1881

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Photos in Anthropological Society Album at PRM