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With his brother Joseph, John Cash erected the cottage factories for ribbon-manufacture which, as part of an experiment never completed (see PA562/8-16) were built beside Coventry Canal in 1857; of Quaker ancestry, he lived at Coundon Vicarage but held a house at Radford (plus 4a.) for which he paid £27/10/- p.a. rent to Bablake School. In 1859 John Cash was a trustee of Moore's Charity (see PA101/146/2); he was from 1854 a shareholder in the Coventry Corn Exchange and Public Room Company (see PA102/1). In 1860 Cash leased a St. Nicholas' St. house for 21 years to Charles Bray (see PA202/7/2). Cash was first chairman of the 1878-founded Coventry Coffee Tavern Co. Ltd. - see PA91/1. On the city council, 1853-56, 1865-77. Held Church Leys - see PA466/16/1. For the firm, see PA562. For him, see especially PA562/26; PA562/37/1; PA562/38; PA562/71; PA562/75 (favoured a market hall, c.1860); PA562/77; PA562/78 (died, 1880). 1822-80. Involved with acquisition of land at Corley and Allesley, Warwickshire in 1871-72 (PA1681/71/1). See PA1681/44/4. Qua Wheatley's Charity trustee, 1875-78, see CCA/2/3/448/30: PA489/4/31/4.An executor of his father Joseph who died in 1870 - see PA56/7/1.IX (1872). Tenanted a Well Street house in 1830 - see PA811/2/26(a)(i).