Richard Spurr
Richard Spurr was baptised on 15 October 1766, the son of Peter Spurr, a cutler. Presumably, this was Peter Spurr, who traded at Church Lane (and later at Arundel Street, where his output was pen, fruit, and sportsman’s knives, and also phlemes, lancets, toothpicks, and corkscrews). Richard was apparently apprenticed to his father in 1780 and became a Freeman in 1788. Richard’s name never appeared in a directory and probably he worked in the family firm. He died on 16 February 1797, ....
