Edward Hobson
Edward Hobson (1799-1858) was the son of razor smith (and later farmer) Joseph Walshaw Hobson (d.1843, aged 80), of Stannington Wood. By 1825, Edward was a razor manufacturer and hardware dealer at Snig Hill. He once paid damages to Joseph Rodgers & Sons for imitating its name (Sheffield Independent, 13 December 1834). In 1839, Hobson advertised his ‘wholesale cutlery warehouse’, where he ‘always has several hundred gross of pen, pocket and Wharncliffe knives in stock, with a large ass....
