FLIGHT, Benjamin (Grimwade p.510)

[MCB]

The burial of a Benjamin Flight aged 71 years was recorded in 1802 at St Paul, Covent Garden.

[dognose]

From Grimwade

Address: Exeter Change. Second mark, in partnership with John Kelly

Perhaps not so much a silversmith, more of an Organ Builder:

FLIGHT, Benjamin (1767? - 1847), Organ Builder, was the son of Benjamin Flight, of the firm of Flight & Kelly, Organ Builders.

Source: Dictionary of National Biography - Volume 7 - 1889

FLIGHT, Benjamin, an eminant organ builder, born about 1767, was the son of Benjamin Flight, who, in the later part of the last century, carried on, in partnership with John Kelly, under the style of 'Flight and Kelly,' the business of organ building at Exeter Change.

Source: A Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Volume 1 - 1879

The Flights seem to have been responsible for setting the manufacture of barrel organs onto a commercial footing, and it is said, Benjamin Flight, senior, pioneered the introduction of the barrel organ into churches

Source: The Making of the Victorian Organ - Nicholas Thistlethwaite - 1999

Presumabley marks were entered at Goldsmiths' Hall for the hallmarking of silver embellishments that were attached to the instruments.

[MCB]

Benjamin Flight, cabinet maker of St Paul's, Covent Garden, paid duties for the Apprentice Indentures of Jno. Kelly in 1766. This apprenticeship presumably relates to Flight's future business partner.
He also paid duties from the same address in 1772 for the Indentures of Thomas Harbert.

[silverly]

12 March 1790 Benjamin Flight of Saint Paul Covent Garden in the County of Middlesex organ builder bound in marriage to Elizabeth Patmore of Bishop Stortford in the County of Hertford spinster.