C. W. Rodgers
Charles William Rodgers was born in Sheffield in about 1801 and by 1833 was a table knife maker and shop keeper in Westbar. He succeeded to his grandfather’s business in 1836 and by the following year was making table knives – and running a beer house – in Lambert Street. By 1845, when C. W. Rodgers advertised in a Sheffield directory, pen knives had been added to his output. In the Census (1851), he was enumerated in Lambert Street as a 49-year-old cutlery manufacturer, who employed about....
