A. E. Thompson & Son
The owner was Arthur Edward Thompson (1864-1945), who was the son of John Thompson (a commercial traveller in cutlery) and his wife, Emma. Arthur became a manufacturer’s clerk. In 1889, he had married Mary Gray Mitchell (d. 1939). In the Census (1901), Arthur was a 37-year-old coal merchant ‘on his own account’. In 1911, he was a manufacturer’s agent and had a son, Henry Arthur Thompson (1891-1966?), working as a cutlery manufacturer’s assistant. A. E. T....
