Thomas John Creswick was born in Norton, Derbyshire, on 11 August 1825, the son of James and Hannah Creswick. His father was a partner in the silver-plate firm of that name. By 1852, T.J. Creswick was listed in his own right as a silver plater in Gell Street. He partnered W. W. Harrison until 1856. A partnership with John Waterhouse Sansom (see Sansom & Davenport) followed, but that ended in the following year. Creswick announced that he was starting work as a commission agent, b....