Hallas, Flower & Pearson
Established in about 1876, the leading member of this enterprise was apparently Charles Gray Hallas, a butchers’ blade forger, who was born in Beighton, Derbyshire, in about 1827. The other partners were Frederick William Flower (c. 1827-1900), Edward Pearson, and (when Flower left in 1881) Joshua Seward Searle (b. 1845). Flower was a solicitor’s cashier and Searle a leather dealer, so presumably they provided capital rather than cutlery expertise. The company was based at Charlotte Works,....
