Thomas Ogden, Halifax, an eight-day longcase clock with 'Halifax' moonphase aperture: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell and having arched tops to the plates along with finned pillars both typical of this maker, the twelve-inch brass break-arch dial having a raised, silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals, outer Arabic five-minute numerals, decorative half-hour markings and diamond quarter-hour markings, engraved at VI o'clock with the makers name Thos. Ogden, Halifax, the matted dial centre having ringed winding holes, a date aperture with engraved surround and a round moonphase aperture with date as typical from the Halifax region, with cast-brass female-head spandrels to the four corners, the arch with a round silvered boss engraved with the inscription Moveo dum Moneo (I warn whilst I move) and with cast-brass dolphin spandrels to either side, contained in a modern walnut flat-top case with three-quarter turned pillars to the hood, a plain trunk and standing on a plain plinth to the base, height 226 cms.* Biography Thomas Ogden was a member of the well-known clockmaking family from Yorkshire founded by James Ogden born circa 1640. Thomas Ogden, born 1693 and the son of Samuel, lived near Ripponden before moving to Halifax in the 1740s where he died in 1769.