William Henry Beaumont (1852-1932) was born at Hoylandswaine, near Barnsley.  He was the son of John, a bookkeeper at a colliery. In Sheffield, after the 1880s William worked his way up from apprentice at an electro-plate goods manufacturer to electro-plate manager. Under his own name, he advertised electro-plated goods (such as fish carvers and fish eaters) in the Foreign Buyers’ Catalogue (1895). The address was Lincoln Works, 38 Arundel Street, which was formerly occupied by  Isaac Eyre. The assets of this firm had been sold in 1893 and presumably Beaumont acquired them (Sheffield Independent, 20 November 1893). In 1901, he registered a silver mark for a new venture in Division Street. He began with £100 capital, but was soon bankrupt, which he blamed on poor trade and a burglary. ‘Pawned Stock in Order to Live’ was the press headline  (Sheffield Daily Independent, 20 August 1903).  In the Census (1911), he was working as an insurance agent. He died at Firth’s Almshouses on 27 April 1932, aged 80, and was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery.