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[23891] Kensal Green Cemetery : Father of the Modern Gun Trade
Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
Tomb of Joseph Manton, Gunmaker (1766-1835).
Manton is one of the best known names associated with the English gun trade during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Described in an epitaph written by Colonel Peter Hawker for his tomb as 'the greatest artist in firearms that ever the world produced', Joseph Manton, alongside his brother John, become internationally renowned for high quality and innovative developments within the trade.
[23891] Kensal Green Cemetery : Father of the Modern Gun Trade
Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
Tomb of Joseph Manton, Gunmaker (1766-1835).
Manton is one of the best known names associated with the English gun trade during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Described in an epitaph written by Colonel Peter Hawker for his tomb as 'the greatest artist in firearms that ever the world produced', Joseph Manton, alongside his brother John, become internationally renowned for high quality and innovative developments within the trade.