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(Adapted from the late Andrew Firth's account published in the society's Catalogue of the Collections) The Chippendale Society was effectively founded by Thomas Pickles of Otley (1890 – 1976) whose family had owned the boats for hire on the river Wharfe for generations. His uncle Barrett (1843 – 1940), a respected local historian, had encouraged him to promote a wider interest in Thomas Chippendale, the young man who had left the small town and sought fame and fortune in London.
