George W. Webster
Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in about 1806, George Webster was manufacturing razors in Howard Street by 1841. He advertised in Slater’s National & Commercial Directory of Ireland (Manchester & London, 1846). At the Great Exhibition in 1851, he displayed ‘razors exhibited for quality and workmanship … [and] ... a registered double-edged razor’. In 1861, when he lived in Woodside Lane, Webster employed nine workers. His address apparently changed frequen....
