William Stenton & Son / R. S. Stenton
William Stenton (c.1777-1863) was a Sheffield merchant and American trader. His early experience was apparently in the cutlery warehouse of Miss Harrison (unidentified). He later partnered William Greaves & Sons until 1817. In the 1820s, he worked for Naylor & Sanderson, where he was known as ‘Devil Stenton’. It was said that ‘the imprecations uttered against him by the cutlers were loud, bitter and deep from the manner in which they were treated by him’ (Ca....
