B. Davison & Company
Bernard Davison was a Jewish entrepreneur, who was active in Sheffield between the 1890s and 1930s. According to his naturalization papers (1900), he was a ‘subject of Russia, having been born at Warsaw in Poland … the son of David and Cecilia Davison, both subjects of Russia, of the age of twenty-eight years’. It is not known when Bernard Davison arrived in England, but in about 1892 he started a small business as a cap manufacturer and draper in Sheffield. He had about £130 capital and opened....
