B. & L. Ellis
Benjamin Ellis (1873-1952) was born in Sheffield, the son of George Ellis (a silversmith) and his wife, Priscilla. Benjamin became a brewer’s bookkeeper. In 1909, he was sentenced to a month’s hard labour for embezzling travellers’ expenses at Queen’s Road Brewery Co (Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 13 July 1909). After the First World War, he followed his brothers – George Ellis and Samuel Milton Ellis – into the cutlery industry. In about 1919, he took his son, Benjamin Milton Ellis (1896-1....
