Hubert Clifford Peckett (1892-1969) was the son of Thomas Edward Peckett (1858-1935) and his wife, Clara nee Lee.  Thomas Edward was a cutlery manufacturer at Corn Hill Works, 218 Solly Street, whose father was Thomas Peckett, a razor smith for Joseph Rodgers & Sons. In 1888, Thomas Edward advertised the opening of a ‘special showroom’ at Blackpool at 32 Tyldesley Road (back of Foxhall Hotel). He sold cutlery and electro-plate and also offered a service cleaning knives (a dozen per minute), using Peckett’s Knife Machine (Blackpool Herald, 6 July 1888). By 1891, Thomas Edward was living in Blackpool and later opened a cutlery shop at 32 Market Street, close to the seafront and Blackpool Tower. In 1892, he apparently sold his stock-in-trade and tools at Solly Street (Sheffield Independent, 24 December 1892).  In that year, Hubert was born at Blackpool.

Hubert and his elder brother, Thomas Edward Jun., were trained as mechanical engineers. However, the latter was killed in Sheffield in 1925, after his motorcycle collided with a car (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 9 April 1925).  Hubert continued to live in Blackpool and in the 1939 Register was enumerated as a mechanical engineer. However, he must have been involved in the family business, as he was listed in 1934 as a cutler, 26 Market Street. His father, of 1a Sussex Road, Layton, Blackpool, died on 11 March 1935, aged 77. An obituary described him as an ‘inventor of many cutlery novelties, including folding scissors’ (Leeds Mercury, 12 March 1935). He left £5,135 (net personalty £221).  Hubert C. Peckett, of 1 Sussex Road,  died on 17 March 1969, at the same age as his father. He left £81,058.