George W. Hinchliffe was born on 3 December 1804, the son of Joseph (a clerk) and Mary.  George was a partner with Joseph Haywood in Haywood, Hinchliffe & Co, a merchant and cutlery factor in Charles Street and Carver Street in 1825 and 1828, respectively.  Joseph Haywood apparently had married George W. Hinchliffe’s daughter, Sarah, because Joseph Haywood Jun. was later described as Hinchliffe’s nephew.  Haywood, Hinchliffe & Co was dissolved in 1829.   George W. Hinchliffe was first listed in his own right in 1833 as a merchant, steel converter, and trader in table cutlery, razors, and saws in Eyre Street.  Later he also sold shoe, pen, and pocket knives.  Hinchliffe continued to trade from Eyre Street during the 1840s, but his business was declared insolvent in July 1850.  He died, aged 46, on 21 December 1850.  He was buried on Christmas Eve, with his address in the General Cemetery register as the Union Workhouse.  Joseph Haywood Jun. acquired the mark: ‘GEO. W. HINCHLIFFE. CUTLERS. SHEFFIELD’.