Richard Phelps (bellfounder)
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Richard Phelps (c.1670–1738) was born in Avebury, Wiltshire, England.[1]: 240 [2]: 6 Phelps was a bellfounder, or a maker of bells, primarily for churches. He was master of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London from 1701 to 1738,[3] and is best known for his large bell, Great Tom, in the steeple of St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. The foundry, in operation since at least 1570, was listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.[4]