Robert Lingard
This cutler was a spring knife maker (born in about 1798), who worked at Wharncliffe Side (where he was born) until the 1850s, when he moved to Pea Croft. He was based at 85 Pea Croft and was probably related to John Lingard at No. 83. Robert Lingard Sen., ‘late of Peacroft’, died on 27 November 1866, aged 68, at Oughtibridge ‘after a long illness’. He was buried in St Nicholas’s churchyard in Bradfield. His son, Robert, was also a spring knife maker. By 1871, he wa....
