Thomas Thorpe (born c.1826), a spring-knife cutler, was active between about 1856 and 1871.  He rented space in Eyre Street at Trinity Works of George Butler & Co.   He was also briefly victualler at the Ball in Burgess Street, 1859-60.  In 1864, he treated thirty workmen to supper at the Swan with Two Necks in Furnival Street (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1 March 1864).  A fire at Butler’s damaged his workshop and tools (Sheffield Independent, 30 November 1867) and in the 1870s he apparently ceased trading.   The Census (1881) enumerated him as a spring-knife cutler, living in Horner Road, but added ‘imbecile’ against his name.   His son, George (a pearl spring-knife cutler), was at Trinity Works in 1879, but in 1882 was insolvent with net debts of about £400 (Sheffield Independent, 21 January 1882).