James Alfred Greetham (1897-1977) was born at Barnoldswick, Yorkshire, the son of a clerk in a worsted spinning mill.   In 1930, he married Kathleen Wentworth Nicholson (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 19 June 1930).  However, eight years later the couple were divorced after Kathleen’s ‘desertion’.  In 1939, James Alfred was living at Marshall Road in Sheffield and described himself as ‘principal of small firm of electrical and plate cutlery …’  J. A. Greetham & Co appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1948 as a cutlery manufacturer at 34 Eyre Street.  In the 1960s, the firm moved to Rockingham Street.  It ceased trading in about 1972.  James Alfred Greetham died at Poole, Dorset, on 29 December 1977, aged 80.  His estate was worth £33,776.