Thomas Amory / John Amory
Thomas Amory (bapt.1786-1833), the son of a flax dresser, was apprenticed to knife-maker Samuel Bennet and granted his Freedom in 1812. Thomas manufactured fine penknives in Arundel Street.He may have been the ‘Tom Amory’ credited in Leader (1876) as one inventor of ‘frame polishing’ (Benjamin Micklethwaite). He died on 24 April 1833 and was buried in St Paul’s churchyard. He had married Mary Machin (1791-1846). In the Census (1841), his son, John (born in about 1821), wa....
