The owner was Henry Cohen (1866-1949) who had been born in Leeds, the son of Abraham, a Jewish immigrant jeweller from Warsaw, and his wife, Rosetta.  Henry followed his father’s trade and prospered as a Leeds jeweller.

Crown Manufacturing Co (Leeds) Ltd was incorporated in 1935, with a capital of £3,000.  Henry was governing director, alongside his wife Leonora (1873-1978) and son Reginald (Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer, 30 August 1935).  Henry described himself as a watch and clock importer, though presumably he also sold cutlery.  By 1940, the business address was Neville Street, Leeds.
 
Henry Cohen, of Kent Road, Harrogate, died on 2 May 1949, aged 82.  He left £6,401 (net personally £6,274).  The shares in the business were bequeathed to his wife, Leonora (his will paid tribute to her ‘loving and selfless devotion’), with Reginald charged with the future oversight of the business (Yorkshire Evening Post, 31 August 1949).

Leonora had been a prominent Militant Suffragette.  She had spent time in Holloway Prison for smashing a showcase in the Jewel House at the Tower of London; and had also been a hunger striker at Armley Jail.  She became a trades unionist, a JP, and was appointed OBE.  At her death, she was aged 105.

Her son, Reginald Fox Corwen [Cohen] (1902-1984) continued to run the business until it became insolvent in 1982.  He died leaving £49,731.