Meares, Richard (lived 17th-18th centuries)

Family of English instrument makers. Richard Meares (died c. 1722) made lutes, viols, and other string instruments in London in the second half of the 17th century.

He was succeeded by his son, also named Richard (died c. 1743), who enlarged his father's business, by selling not only instruments, but music books and cutlery, and he began to publish music around 1714, including several operas by George Handel, such as Radamisto (1720).