Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in about 1806, George Webster was manufacturing razors in Howard Street by 1841.  He advertised in Slater’s National & Commercial Directory of Ireland (Manchester & London, 1846).  At the Great Exhibition in 1851, he displayed ‘razors exhibited for quality and workmanship … [and] ...  a registered double-edged razor’.   In 1861, when he lived in Woodside Lane, Webster employed nine workers.  His address apparently changed frequently: Matilda Street (1860); Lawton’s Works, Duke Street (1862); Garden Street (1863); and Broad Lane (1865), though it is difficult to say for sure, because another George Webster appears to have been operating at the same time.  The subject of this profile died, aged 62, in Somerset Road on 19 October 1867.