Henry Wilkinson & Company Ltd
Henry Wilkinson was born in 1788 at Norton Hammer, where his father was a file manufacturer. He was apprenticed as a scissor smith, but joined John & Thomas Settle in the silver-plate trade. When Henry Wilkinson joined, it was known as Settles & Gunn. According to a newspaper (Sheffield Independent, 15 February 1873), Henry ‘took the North Road, and was so successful in obtaining orders that he may be said to have created the trade of the firm north of York’. Gunn retired and the f....
