Sheraton was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England[3] - where nowadays there is a pub named after him.

[1] There he set up as professional consultant and teacher, teaching perspective, architecture, and cabinet design for craftsmen.

[3] At least six hundred cabinet makers and joiners subscribed to his book and it was immediately widely influential over a large part of the country.

[3] Then a year before his death, in 1805 he published the first volume of The Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia.

[1] Not all of the drawings are of his own design – he acknowledged that some of them came from works in progress in the workshops of practicing cabinet makers[3] – but he was a superb draughtsman and he set his name on the style of the era.