E. W. Cheesman & Company
Ernest W. Cheesman (1870-1943) was born at Higham, Kent, the son of Henry (a shoemaker and later cordwainer) and his wife, Emily. Ernest trained as a clerk and by 1901 had moved to Sheffield, where he lived at Springvale Road with his wife, Eliza née Woodward and their son, Quintin. The family had moved to Leeds by 1911, where Ernest was a bookkeeper for a cabinet maker. Cheesman had no experience in cutlery manufacture: nevertheless, during the First World War, E. W. Cheesman & Co began trading at Exchange Works,....
