The Bentons were in the silver trade – first in Birmingham and then Sheffield (see Dutton & Benton).   Thomas Benton (1816-1865) had been born in Birmingham, but by 1856 was working as a German silver and brass founder in St Mary’s Road.  His address became Rodwell Foundry, Leadmill Road.  He died in Torquay on Xmas Day 1865, leaving his widow – Jane Angelina née Bridge (d.1883) – nearly £3,000.  Their son, Thomas Henry Benton (1851-1917) had also been born in Birmingham.  After his father’s death, he became a silver designer, modeller, and die sinker.   His son (by his wife Ann) – Thomas Henry Benton (1877-1946) – became a die sinker.   By 1919, he had launched Thomas H. Benton & Co Ltd as a silver smith, cutler, die sinker, tool maker, machinist, hot water and gas fitters manufacturer in Exchange Gateway, Fargate, and Cadman Lane.  Benton was later a silver smith and cutlery manufacturer at Hallamshire Works, Rockingham Street (listed in 1922), and thereafter at Devonshire Works, Canning Street.   In 1934, the business was wound up.  Thomas Henry Benton, die sinker, Cherry Street, was buried on 28 March 1946 in Burngreave Cemetery.  He was aged 68.