Richard Sibley I, apprenticed to Fendall Rushworth 1785, turned over to Daniel Smith the same day, and again to Robert Sharp 1791. Free 1793. Livery 1811. 1st mark entered as plateworker in partnership with Thomas Ellerton 1803. 2nd mark alone 1805. 3rd mark in partnership with William Burwash 1805. 4th mark alone 1812. His various apprentices include George Burwash, son of his partner William, and Sibley’s own son in 1821. Died 1836. Arthur Grimwade asserts in his “London Goldsmiths” that Sibley’s work “whether alone or in partnership is of a high standard of design and execution in a restrained key of Regency taste”.