George Gregory (c.1805-1864), a fleam, farriers’, and spring knife manufacturer, was born in Sheffield.   Between 1828 and 1846, he was listed as a lancet and fleam maker (and on one occasion draper) in Bailey Lane, where he lived with his wife Maria and son George Owen (1841-1917).  He then moved to St Philip’s Road, where in 1851 he described himself as a ‘master cutler’ employing two men.  By 1861, he was living in Norton Lees, employing two men and two boys.  He died from ‘bronchitis’ in Albert Road, Heeley, on 22 February 1864, aged 59.  He was buried in Ecclesall, leaving under £800 to his widow Maria (who died in 1895, aged 91).  His son, George Owen Gregory, continued making fleams in St Philip’s Road into the twentieth century, though he had retired by 1911.  He died at Ecclesall Union Infirmary and was buried at Walkely Cemetery on 14 May 1917.