Thomas Settle & Company / John & Thomas Settle
Bradbury (1912)1 once remarked on the ‘perplexing complications encountered by any one seeking to unravel the intricacies of the old plating partnerships’; adding that ‘frequently changing combinations … included not only members of the same family or non-related bearers of the same surname, but also individuals who in some cases were principals in two or three distinct concerns’. The Settle family typify these problems. The name occurs frequently in the Sheffield Assay ....
