Edwin Herriott (1861-1938) was born in Norton, Derbyshire, the son of Samuel Herriott, a gardener, and his wife, Martha.  By 1881, Edwin was working in Sheffield as a table cutlery warehouseman.  He apparently worked as a table knife manager until 1900, when he launched E. Herriott & Sons, Backfields.  He marketed farriers’, butchers’, table, pen, and pocket knives, electro-plate, and stainless cutlery.  In 1905, the business was restyled F. Herriott, Son & Co (presumably a reference to Edwin’s wife, Fanny).  In 1907, the firm moved to Mermaid Works, Arundel Street, where it occupied 111 and 113.  A partnership for making butchers’ steels with Ernest Pearce, ‘W. Walton’, was dissolved in 1913.  Herriott continued trading until 1926, when F. Herriott & Co was placed in receivership.  One of Edwin’s sons, Ronald, continued to trade as R. Herriott & Son until 1937, when that firm, too, was liquidated.  Edwin Herriott was buried, aged 77, on 25 July 1938 at City Road Cemetery (Fanny had died in 1934).  The trade mark was a mermaid, which had been owned by John Kirk.