Richard Abbott
Richard Abbott was baptised on 23 May 1771 at Castle Donington, the son of Luke (a ‘gentleman’) and Elizabeth. He was apprenticed to Charles Roebuck, a Sheffield knife maker, in 1791. He became a Freeman in 1799. In the previous year, he had married at the parish church Miss Elizabeth Wilson, of Neepsend. He was in partnership as a pen knife cutler with Joseph Hinchliffe (unidentified), but this was dissolved in 1803. In later directories, Richard Abbott traded as a pen and pocket kni....
