James Woolley (clockmaker)

James Woolley or James Wolley (ca.1695 – 22 November 1786) was a watch and clockmaker from Codnor, Derbyshire.

[1] He was born ca 1695, the son of Samuel Woolley and Abigail Pinegar.

[3] He also made longcase clocks known to be signed “J Woolley”, brass and silvered face with moon dial c.1780’s.

He died at his house on Codnor Common on 22 November 1786,[4] a bachelor, and left his fortune to his two nephews.

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The clock on St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham installed in 1830, but thought to be the face of the clock by James Woolley of 1726 from the Nottingham Exchange
Clock mechanism formerly in the Nottingham Exchange and then St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham , now in Nottingham Industrial Museum