The exceptionally skillful group of woodcarvers and cabinet makers who worked in Warwick from the early years of the 19th century through to the First World War achieved a national reputation and even enjoyed Royal patronage. The so-called 'Saxon chair' in Lord Leycester's Hospital is in fact a 17th century chair but many cabinet makers in Warwick did a thriving trade making reproductions of this chair as indeed the label of John Starkey proclaims Sole maker authorised by the Master and Brethren of Earl of Leycester's Hospital of 'Copies of the old Saxon chair'