Samuel Bennett & Company
Samuel Bennett’s first appearance in a directory was in 1811, when Samuel Bennett & Co was listed at Sycamore Street as a manufacturer of pen, pocket, fruit and sportsman’s knives, fleams, razors, desk knives, with moveable handles. He may have been the Samuel Bennett, whose name was on a published list of Recognizances (Sheffield Register, 2 April 1790). He was joined in Samuel Bennett & Co by William Harwood, Lewis Thomas, and Peter Spurr, but this was dissolved in 1813. He next ....
