John Batt & Company Ltd
John Batt was born on 10 January 1830, the son of William Batt. Advertisements stated that John founded his silver-plate business in Arundel Street in 1845 (when he would have been fifteen), but a more accurate date would be 1866, when he left his father’s firm. In 1868, John Batt took out a full-page directory advertisement as a manufacturer in Arundel Street and Tudor Place of presentation plate and ‘every description’ of silver-plated table cutlery. He specialised in electro-plated good....
