S. Pearson & Company Ltd
Trade advertisements dated this company to 1820. The first directory listing was in 1837, when Samuel Pearson, razor manufacturer, Eldon Street, was in partnership with William Hawcroft. Pearson had been born in about 1802 in Ickles, Rotherham. By 1841, Hawcroft and Pearson had launched their own enterprises and they dissolved their partnership in 1845. Pearson remained in Eldon Street and traded as a merchant. By 1847, he partnered Benjamin Winks, selling cutlery and general provisions (such as....
