Colin Littlewood Roberts was born in Sheffield in 1871. His family lived in Attercliffe: his father was Augustus Morton Roberts, a general practitioner in medicine and surgery, and his mother was named Sophia. By 1891, Colin L. Roberts was a foreign correspondent for a merchant. He partnered Herbert Manico in Roberts & Manico (see E. C Manico), a cutlery merchant, but this was dissolved in 1894. Roberts next established his own business as C. L. Roberts & Co, Eyre Street, which sold similar pr....