Thomas Holbem & Company
Thomas Holbem (bapt.1766-1832) was the son of John (a grocer) and Lydia née Dickinson. Thomas was baptised as a Quaker. He was apprenticed to William Wright, a cutler, in 1780 and became a Freeman in 1802. He went into business as a razor maker and in 1803 took on an apprentice, John Bartlem. Thomas Holbem partnered Samuel Bentley and Edmund Wilson, but this folded in 1808. Bentley & Wilson became wholesale ironmongers at Norfolk Street; Thomas traded alone, but was not listed in a di....
