George Manby & Company
George Manby (1832-1895), the son of a cabinet maker, was born in Leeds and first worked as an ironmonger. In 1876, he became salesman for Wiebusch & Hilger in New York and later had charge of its Sheffield factory (see B. J. Eyre). According to Manby: ‘I proposed to the owners to remove our Sheffield business to America’ (Sheffield Independent, 6 September 1879). Manby moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, but after this venture’s failure he returned to Sheffield. By 1881, he had st....
