Benjamin Grayson & Son
Benjamin Grayson was born in 1816, the son of Thomas (a shoe manufacturer) and Elizabeth. He may have been trained as a clerk. By 1859, he was a partner in R. Broadhead & Co (formerly Broadhead & Atkin), Britannia Works, and worked as a traveller. In 1860, his partnership with Rogers Broadhead, Thomas Marshall, and Joseph Thompson was dissolved. Grayson and Thompson took over the business and registered a patent in 1866 for an ‘improvement in bread plates or dishes’. In 1870,....
