Richard Mather & Son Ltd
This firm was established in 1859 by Richard Mather (c.1827-1892), who was born at Whiston, near Prescot, Lancashire. The family was Huguenot in origin (Quality, April 1959). Richard was a tool maker, who in 1851 employed a couple of men in Whiston. He moved to Sheffield and by the late 1860s was a nippers and pliers manufacturer in Pond Street. He later specialised in engineers’ tools (in the Census he described himself as a ‘telegraph combination tool maker’). He died a....
