Isaac Samuel Dearden (1901-1979) was born in Sheffield, the son of Isaac Dearden, a salesman, and his wife, Annie Jane Beatrice. After 1945, he partnered William A. C. Goff in Goff & Dearden, which was a cutlery manufacturer in Monmouth Lane. In 1951, it was dissolved. Dearden then launched his own company, which by 1957 was at Dacre Works, Dacre Street. It formed the nucleus of the ‘Monogram’ Cutlery Group at Dacre Works, Liverpool Street (off Newhall Road). Dearden’s polic....