John Algor
Born in Thetford, Suffolk, in about 1802, Algor specialised in shoe, bread, butchers’, cooks’, glaziers’, farmers’, and artists’ palette knives. In 1837, he worked in Cross Burgess Street, but by 1841 had moved to 105 Eldon Street. In 1851, he employed fourteen men. Algor displayed his products at the League Bazaar in London (1845), the Great Exhibition (1851), where he received an Honourable Mention, and the Irish Industrial Exhibition (1853). He seems to have been an....
