John Knibb was an English clockmaker born in Claydon, Oxfordshire.
19 Facts About John Knibb
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John Knibb produced various clocks and watches including bracket clocks, lantern clocks, longcase clocks, and some wall-clocks, as well as building and maintaining several turret clocks.
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John Knibb was cousin to the clock- and instrument maker Samuel Knibb and younger brother of the distinguished clock- and watchmaker Joseph Knibb.
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However, John was not a freeman of the City of Oxford, so all the clocks that he made still had to be signed "Joseph Knibb".
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John Knibb considered this excessive, so he asked Brome Whorwood, one of the two MPs for Oxford, to intervene.
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John Knibb died at Oxford in 1722, followed by his widow Elizabeth in 1726.
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In 1697 Joseph John Knibb retired from London to Hanslope and Aldworth moved to London to succeed him.
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In 1703, Aldworth married into the John Knibb extended family, his bride being Elizabeth John Knibb, from Collingtree in Northamptonshire.
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John Knibb worked in Oxford at a time when clockmaking suddenly flourished in the city.
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John Knibb himself took a succession of 10 apprentices between 1673 and 1722.
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When Joseph moved to London in 1670, John Knibb took more responsibility for the business in Oxford.
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The premises that John Knibb took over from his brother were a tenement on the south side of Holywell Street leased from Merton College, Oxford, built in the shadow of the city walls on what had been the town ditch.
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John Knibb produced bracket clocks, lantern clocks, longcase clocks, and wall clocks.
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John Knibb's products were more numerous than his Oxford competitors.
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John Knibb catered for the less expensive segment of the market but he dominated the higher quality part of the market.
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John Knibb built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford in 1690 and repaired the clock at St Bartholomew's parish church, Yarnton in 1703.
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In 1686, John Knibb was appointed a member of Oxford City Council.
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John Knibb was elected as one of the Bailiffs in 1688 and from 1690 to 1696.
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John Knibb's friends included the antiquarians Anthony Wood and Thomas Hearne.