Nathaniel Hedge III (1710–1795) was an English clockmaker based in Colchester in Essex.[1]
Hedge was apprenticed to the Colchester clockmaker John Smorthwaite in 1728 and married Smorthwaite's daughter Sarah in 1733. Hedge went on to become a prosperous and highly respected clockmaker. http://www.brianloomes.com/collecting/smorthwaite/index.html
Examples of Hedge's work can be found in the Mason collection at the Colchester Clock Museum. https://web.archive.org/web/20041205211303/http://www.colchestermuseums.org.uk/tymp_html/Tymp_topten.html