Lickorish was a retail jeweller based at Birmingham. The founder was John Frederick Lickorish (1873-1944), who was born at Birmingham, the son of John (a wire worker, who died in 1879) and his wife, Emily Mary née Kirk (who worked as a stationer to raise her family). John Frederick worked as a jewellery assistant and then jewellery salesman manager.

By 1919, Lickorish & Co was operating as a retail jeweller at Easy Row, Birmingham. However, in 1924 the business was bankrupt. Somehow the firm survived and later in the 1920s was selling tea spoons, tea knives, and other cutlery from John Bright Street, Birmingham.  

John Frederick Lickorish, of Edgbaston, Birmingham died on 25 July 1944,  leaving £3,808.  The family grave was at Olton Monastery.  

Lickorish & Co operated at Worcester Street in Birmingham city centre into the 1950s.