John Fromanteel (1638 - 1690)

Field(s) of interest: scientific instruments
Gender: male

1638
~1690

Biography:
John Fromanteel (1638-c. 1690) was the son of the famous London clockmaker Ahasuerus Fromantee sr. After an apprenticeship with his father in 1651, Fromanteel worked for Salomon Coster. In 1659, later Fromanteel went back to London where he and his father made the first pendulum clocks in England. Fromanteel became a freeman in 1663 and after that took four apprentices, one of them being his son Ahasuerus (the third) in 1679. In 1681 John returned to the Netherlands and settled with his brother Ahasuerus jr. as a clockmaker on the Vijgendam in Amsterdam. John seemed to have travelled back frequently to London.

Occupations:
clockmaker: 1657

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