Wilson & Davis
The principals were Frederick Wilson and William Pittman Davis. The former had been born in about 1838 in Scarborough, the son of Emanuel, a tea dealer (and later lodging house keeper), and his wife, Jane. Frederick Wilson was apprenticed as an ironmonger and later moved to London, where by 1871 he was a ‘merchant of electro-silver hardware’. He partnered William P. Davis (see Boardman, Glossop) in Hatton Garden, London. He also registered a silver mark in Sheffield, where the partne....
