Question: Who was an English furniture manufacturer, who founded an English furniture making firm based in Lancaster, Lancashire, and in London?
Context: Thomasville Furniture Industries is a full-line furniture manufacturer once based in Thomasville, North Carolina, with dedicated galleries in more than 400 retail furniture stores.  Additionally, there are 30 Thomasville Home Furnishing stores which carry only Thomasville products.  The company had been a subsidiary of Clayton, Missouri-based Furniture Brands International since 1995.  Heritage Home Group bought most of that company's assets in 2013 and announced the end of Thomasville Furniture's operations in Thomasville in 2014. George Hepplewhite (1727?  – June 21, 1786) was a cabinetmaker.  He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale.  There are no pieces of furniture made by Hepplewhite or his firm known to exist but he gave his name to a distinctive style of light, elegant furniture that was fashionable between about 1775 and 1800 and reproductions of his designs continued through the following centuries.  One characteristic that is seen in many of his designs is a shield-shaped chair back, where an expansive shield appeared in place of a narrower splat design. Black Red White is a leading furniture manufacturer in Poland, founded in Chmielek, Poland in 1991.  The company's headquarters are located in Biłgoraj.  Black Red White S.A. is the biggest Polish manufacturer of traditional and new furniture systems, home and office furniture, and upholstered fittings made of furniture panels, MDF and solid wood.  BRW S.A. is an organization consisting of 17 production plants which employ over 6,000 people. Matthew Burt (born 1951) is a furniture designer-maker in England who runs a contemporary practice from a studio and workshop (established 1978) based in the South Wiltshire village of Sherrington, west of Salisbury.  His work has been displayed in significant public exhibitions, most notably in the "OneTree" touring show and at the House of Commons in 2008 in a selection of work intended to raise the profile of UK furniture making to members of parliament.  His solo museum exhibition "Idea to Object" was held at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham in 2008. Matthew Burt’s workshop steadily built on a reputation for furniture design that allies structurally robust work that fulfils its function with a lean, elegant line and the occasional bravura surface.  Burt has said that he regards the 'intermingling of science, engineering, mathematics, aesthetics and metaphorics' as the fundamental building blocks for his furniture. Parker Knoll is a British furniture manufacturing company, originally formed by Frederick Parker, a British furniture manufacturer, and Willi Knoll, a German inventor of a new form of sprung furniture.  With roots in the manufacture of high-quality furniture, the brand concentrated on mass-market products from the 1930s to the 1990s.  The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1950, but taken private in 2004.  After financial problems, it was acquired out of administration by Sofa Brands International.  In recent years, the brand has moved back to the higher-quality end of the domestic furniture market. Gillows of Lancaster and London, also known as Gillow & Co., was an English furniture making firm based in Lancaster, Lancashire, and in London.  It was founded around in Lancaster in about 1730 by Robert Gillow (1704–1772). Bassett Furniture is a furniture manufacturer and retailer, headquartered in Bassett, Virginia, United States.  It was founded in 1902, by John David Bassett, Charles C. Bassett, Samuel H. Bassett, and Reed L. Stone.  Bassett Furniture is one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Virginia and has been producing hand-crafted furniture for over 100 years. Savimex Corp (SAV:VN) is a wooden furniture manufacturer and home construction company based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  The company processes timber, makes furniture, manages brand names and exports furniture to Japan, the EU and the United States.  It buys, imports and works woods such as eucalyptus, rubber, oak and beech.  Its furniture products include tables, chairs, shelving units, beds, dining room sets, bedroom sets and more. Robert Gillow (1704–1772) was an English furniture manufacturer, who founded Gillow & Co. Waring & Gillow is a noted firm of English furniture manufacturers formed in 1897 by the merger of Gillows of Lancaster and London and Waring of Liverpool.  It was dissolved in 1938.
Answer: Robert Gillow