The partners were Samuel Hardy (1810-1874) and Thomas Pagan Lowe (1810-?). Hardy had been born in Sheffield on 21 March , the son of Robert (a cutler) and his wife, Hannah. Lowe was born in London on 21 June 1810, with his birthplace written in a Nonconformist register as Bartholomew Close, St Bartholomew the Great. His parents were Joshua Lowe and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pagan. By 1838, Thomas P. Lowe was in Sheffield and working as a bookkeeper, when he married Miss Martha Cheetham. By 1....