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Charles Wilson Safell, son of John and Elizabeth of Minories, was christened at St Botoph, Aldersgate in 1747.
He married Ann Brent at St Andrew, Holborn in 1769.
Four of their children were christened at St James, Clerkenwell 1771-80, one at St Sepulchre in 1776 and two at St John the Baptist, Clerkenwell 1783-5. The burial record in 1788 for their son Charles Styles at that church shows their address as Clerkenwell Green.
An undated document indexed to 1773 relating to his application for freedom of the City of London by patrimony in the Clockmakers Company notes his father was free of the Cutlers Company in 1743.
Land Tax records for 1782 show his address as St John Street, Clerkenwell and 1789-97 at Clerkenwell Green.
He entered maker’s marks at Goldsmiths Hall in 1791 as a case maker and 1797 as a watch case maker both from 36 Clerkenwell Green.
He paid duties as a Citizen and Clockmaker for the apprentice indentures of James Gole in 1791, Thomas Kirk in 1794 and James Davis in 1797.
The burial of his wife Ann aged 60 years, late of St Bride’s, Fleet Street parish, was recorded at St James, Clerkenwell in 1809.
He married Mary Foggo at St George, Hanover Square in 1810.
His burial in 1816 aged 69 years, late of Blackfriars Road, was also recorded at St James.

1814 CW Saffell Solar Tincture-warehouse Albion Street, Blackfriars is listed in the London Post Office Directory.

Transcript of an advertisement for Solar Tincture carried in The Times on 4th March 1773.

RESTORATION of LIFE in CASES of SUDDEN DEATH.–For this benevolent purpose, Dr. SIBLY’s RE-ANIMATING SOLAR TINCTURE, supersedes every art and invention. In all circumstances of suicide, or sudden death, whether by blows, fits, falls, suffocation, strangulation, drowning, apoplexy, thunder and lightning, assassination, duelling, &c., immediate recourse should be had to this medicine, which will not fail to restore life, provided the organs and juices are in a fit disposition for it, which they undoubtedly are much oftener than is imagined. Let me, therefore, entreat an anxious perseverance in this sublimest of all charities–the attempt to recover perishing lives. Upon all such emergencies, Dr. Sibly will be ready to attend the meanest individual; and in the interim he begs to call the attention of all persons to this Medicine, who labour under any disorders arising from an unwholesome state of the air; whose blood has been contaminated by hot climates or scrophulous taints; whose enfeebled constitutions require immediate aid. They will find it an infallible, and almost immediate cure.
Sold, by the Doctor’s appointment, at Mr. Williams’s, perfumer to his Majesty, No. 41, Pall-mall; at Mevin’s perfumery warehouse, No. 72, New Bond-street; at the Doctor’s house, in Titchfield-street, Cavendish-square; and at the British directory-office, Ave Maria-lane, St. Paul’s price 13s the large, and 7s 6d. the small bottles, duty included.
N.B. A Treatise on the virtues and efficacy of the Medicine may be had gratis where it is sold.

Websites suggest Dr Ebenezer Sibly died 1799-1800.There is a burial of an Ebenezer Sibly aged 49 years recorded at St Faith under St Paul in 1799 which may suggest there was a practical problem with the treatment in his case.
Dr Sibly's successor is identified on websites as J R Safell. This might be John Richard Safell born 1776, a son of Charles and Ann.

Mike