Some established sources list no birth information; however a "George Hepplewhite" was born in 1727 in Ryton, County Durham, England.
[1] According to some sources, he served his apprenticeship with Gillows in Lancaster,[2] but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is sceptical about this.
While some have attempted to attribute the furniture design to his wife Alice, there is no evidence that she was the original creative force behind the work beyond her publication of the reference guide after his death.
The book influenced cabinet makers and furniture companies for several generations.
The work of these generations influenced in turn copies of the original designs and variants of them through the 19th and 20th centuries.