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St. Michael's accountant churchwarden in 1820 and 1821, he was an ordinary one there in 1822/23; he was appointed a St. Michael's feoffee in 1828 (PA96/71/20-21). This ironmonger declined to act as an executor of Joseph Waters Caldicott's will in 1832 (see PA101/4/151: CCA/2/3/130/24). See PA101/12/114 for Summers' partner Thomas Cooper's 1839 draft will and PA2473/2/130 for the probated version of 1841. See PA202/9/6. Summers was an assignee of the indebted builder Thomas Minstrell (q.v.) (1830: BA/A/G/14/4,5). See BA/D/A/47/46.XXV. He was on the city council, 1838-41. Summers was an executor of his fellow ironmonger William Perkins of Warwick,1820-46 (see PA466/12/10-13: PA2433/3/52) and of the butcher Thomas Goodman (q.v.) in 1818 (see PA56/66/20). Of Cooper & Summers, High Street (1830). He inhabited 9, Warwick Row, 1840-46 (PA56/95/1,4) and bought property there and in Hertford Street and Kenilworth in 1836 - see PA56/97/38. See PA56/97/39. He was proposed as a General Charities trustee in 1836 - see PA56/27/1.XII. He held land west of Swan Lane - see PA56/138/8. The Drapers' Company patronised Cooper & Summers, 1817-39 (PA468/4/3/25/22; PA468/4/3/26/41; PA468/4/3/27/24; PA468/4/3/28/36; PA468/4/3/30/41; PA468/4/3/31/34; PA468/4/3/33/38; PA468/4/3/34/36; PA468/4/3/35/38; PA468/4/3/37/27; PA468/4/3/41/27,41; PA468/4/3/42/36; PA468/4/3/43/55,56; PA468/4/3/48/66). For Summers' Harnall land, see PA491/16/1. In 1825, as a trustee of the will of the ironmonger William Perkins of Warwick, Summers sold Smithford Street, High Street and Earl Street, Coventry messuages - see CCA/2/3/433/50-53; CCA/2/3/451/24-25; CCA/2/3/473/24 - and was concerned with property in Broadgate and Derby Lane (CCA/2/3/194/37). As a trustee of the ribbon-manufacturer Jonathan Bray(q.v.)'s Much Park Street premises (1827) and will, 1833ff, see CCA/2/3/312/15,18-21; CCA/2/3/314/33-36 passim,49.I. PA2433/3/50 shows that Summers was buried at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire in 1846 aged 58. For the High Street property, see also PA2433/3/67. Involved in Town Court litigation, 1831 - see BA/E/K/110/796.