Moses Lafount

Pleasant Row, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, lustre maker.

On the 19th December 1796, Moses Lafount, Alexander Thomas and James Cox, glass manufactures of Falcon Glass House in Surrey, made an agreement to manufacture and sell Lafount's new invention for a chandelier. Lafount's name was used for the finished chandeliers, wall-lights and candelabra. It was patented on 23rd December 1796.