John Bagshaw Schofield
Born in Sheffield in 1816, John B. Schofield was the son of Isaac Schofield and his wife, Mary. He was living in Broomspring Lane at the time of the Census (1841), where his father was also based. John was an ivory cutter. He lived for the rest of his life in Broomspring Lane, working mostly as an ivory cutter and occasionally as a dealer in hafts and scales of other materials (such as buffalo horn and wood). By the 1860s, he had started manufacturing table knives in a small way (he employed a man and a boy in 1861). He died on 4 November 1881, aged 64, and was buried in the General Cemetery.