George Lee & Company
George Lee was born in 1840 in Eckington, Derbyshire, the son of James Lee (c.1812-1884) and his wife Frances (c.1819-1884). His younger brother was James Lee. His father was an agricultural labourer, who by 1851 had moved to Sheffield, where George and James become involved in the Britannia metal trade. By 1861, George Lee was a Britannia metal smith, living with Joseph Brown, with whom he launched Brown & Lee (manufacturers of Britannia metal and electro-plate wares, Rockingham Street). In 1868 ....
