William Blyde & Company
William Edward Blyde (1838-1896) was a partner with his brother Edwin Blyde in W. & E. Blyde & Co, surgical instrument, truss, and spring knife manufacturers, Eyre Street. They were the sons of James Blyde. After a dispute with Sarah Ellison Blyde (Sheffield Independent, 3 December 1864), by the mid-1860s William had ended the partnership with Edwin and started his own company. In 1868, he was based in Howard Street as a surgical instrument, cutlery, and buffalo [horn] knob maker. ....
