Ratcliffe Hutchinson (1887-1956) was born in Walkley, the son of John (a spring knife cutler, who later worked on his own account) and his wife, Fanny.  Ratcliffe was trained as a cutler and by 1919 had acquired the Holly Street Works of Thomas Oxley.  Hutchinson’s enterprise moved to Rockingham Street in the 1920s, Cavendish Street in the 1930s, and Victoria Street between the 1940s and 1967 (when it was dissolved as a limited company).  Besides spoons and forks, Hutchinson marketed table knives in shear and ‘FIRTH STAINLESS’ steel and also cased sets of table cutlery.  Ratcliffe Hutchinson, Upholme, Blackmoor Crescent, Dore, died on 20 June 1956, aged 68.  He left £27,186.