Thomas Thorpe
Thomas Thorpe (born c.1826), a spring-knife cutler, was active between about 1856 and 1871. He rented space in Eyre Street at Trinity Works of George Butler & Co. He was also briefly victualler at the Ball in Burgess Street, 1859-60. In 1864, he treated thirty workmen to supper at the Swan with Two Necks in Furnival Street (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1 March 1864). A fire at Butler’s damaged his workshop and tools (Sheffield Independent, 30 November 1867) and in the 1870s he apparently....
