George Horridge / Henry Horridge
George Horridge (c.1780-1843), a pen knife cutler, married Elizabeth Ashforth in 1804. By 1816, Ashforth & Horridge was listed as a pen and sportsman knife manufacturers at Eyre Lane. The partners were John Ashforth and George Horridge. This was dissolved in 1823. George Horridge next formed Horridge & Hallam with Robert Hallam (Robert Hallam & Son). This firm traded in silver fruit-knives and ‘all sorts of fancy pen-knives’, first in Green Lane and then in Silver Street.....
