Thomas Lediard

There he was a stage designer at the Oper am Gänsemarkt, for his chief, Sir Cyril Wyche, 1st Baronet, who beginning in 1722 served as one of the theater's directors.

[1] Lediard returned to England some time before 1732 and settled in Smith Square, Westminster.

Early in 1743 he resigned his appointment as Surveyor of the bridge, and died shortly afterwards, in June 1743.

1743, in the preface to which he claims to write from personal knowledge of some of the transactions, and to have had access to important letters and papers; and The History of the Reigns of William III and Mary, and Anne, in continuation of the History of England by Rapin de Thoyras, 3 vols.

He also published translations of the Life of Sethos, by Jean Terrasson, 1732; A History of the Ancient Germans, by Johann Jacob Mascon, 2 vols.

1737; and of A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture, by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, 2nd edit.

He was the author of Grammatica Anglicana Critica, oder Versuch zu einer vollkommen Grammatic der englischen Sprache, Hamburg (1726); Eine Collection verschiedener Vorstellungen in Illuminationen .