Samuel Frith
When Samuel Frith died ‘suddenly’ on 15 December 1839, aged 60, he was the landlord at the Barrack Tavern, Penistone Road. His earlier career had been as a fine pen knife manufacturer. He was baptised in Sheffield on 25 June 1779, the son of Micah and Elizabeth Frith. Micah was the son of William (a mason at Fairfield, north Yorkshire) and was apprenticed to a cutler in Upper Hallam. Micah became a silversmith and in the early 1790s apprenticed his son, Samuel, to a succession of kni....
