Thomas Fox Howard (1837-1899) was a lancet and fleam manufacturer.  He was the son of William Howard, a lancet maker in Queen Street, and his wife, Mary.  William died on 22 March 1873, aged 60, and was buried in Burngreave in a dissenter’s grave.   Apparently, Thomas was trained for eleven years by his grandfather, lancet maker John Howard.   In 1859, Thomas announced to merchants and sport’s knife makers that he manufactured knife lancets of every description at 19 Carver Street (Sheffield Independent, 5 March 1859).   By 1868, his address was Central Works, West Street.  Howard occupied 45, 47, and 49 West Street, but from 1869 he leased 3-storey workshops at the back of Bow Works, which fronted West Street Lane.   In 1869, Howard became ‘successor’ to Borwick, Spring Street.  In 1875, an advertisement presented Thomas as a lancet and fleam manufacturer and dealer in tortoiseshell at Bow Works, West Street (Sheffield Independent, 30 January 1875).   Howard apparently sold Bow Works (Sheffield Independent, 19 February 1876).  Thomas’s wife, Frances, died on 11 April 1863 in Meadow Street.  At the end of that year, Thomas married Annie Waller at the Congregational Church, Cemetery Road.   Thomas F. Howard died at his residence in Upperthorpe on 14 January 1899, aged 62, and was buried in the General Cemetery.  He left £574.