George Newbould was a scissors manufacturer.  He was apparently born in Sheffield on 6 May 1816, the son of George Newbould, a scissors manufacturer, and his wife, Ann.  By 1852, he was involved in Newbould, Owen & Gill (with Alfred Owen and John Gill), a scissors manufacturer, based in Allen Street.  The partnership was short-lived and George Newbould & Son was launched in the same street.   It was bankrupt in 1854.  The enterprise was immediately resurrected as George Newbould & Sons, with George’s sons, Henry (d. 1858) and Joseph, as partners.  By 1862, the Newbould business was based in Radford Street, with another son, James, involved as partner.  On 12 September 1880, George Newbould was found by his wife hanging from a nail on the attic staircase (Sheffield Independent, 14 September 1880).  He was aged 64.  According to the local press, physical ailments and a domestic bereavement had affected his reason.  He was buried at Wardsend Cemetery.  It appears his wife, Emma, died in 1898 in Sheffield Workhouse.   J. A. Clarke claimed to be George Newbould’s ‘successor’.