George Renton (1846-1915) was born in Sheffield, the son of Alexander Renton and his wife, Elizabeth.  His father was Scottish and a tailor in Change Alley.  He died from consumption on 26 May 1848, aged 42, and was buried in the General Cemetery.  George was apparently raised at East Bank Road by his uncle William – also a tailor, to whom George was apprenticed.  George married Elizabeth née Sheldon (d. 1930).  By 1871, George was a table knife manager.  In 1877, he advertised as a table and butchers’ knife manufacturer at 62 Carver Street.  He was ‘successor’ to George Ward, using the ‘Y NOT’ mark.  In the Census (1881), he described himself as a ‘cutler master’, employing 33 men, a boy and four girls.  Renton partnered Henry Willott, but this was dissolved in 1881.  By 1888, Renton was at Holly Street.  The ‘Y NOT’ mark passed to Slater.  In the 1890s, after another spell as a table knife manager, Renton became a farmer at Moor Edge Farm, Holmesfield.  He died at Intake on 14 June 1915, aged 69, and was buried in an unconsecrated grave in the General Cemetery.