Henry Godfrey Lamb Long (c.1789-1853) was born at Newark, Nottinghamshire. It is not known when he came to Sheffield or started in business (though advertisements later claimed a founding date of 1768). But Henry Long first appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1828 in Arundel Street. A brief partnership with John Brown (unidentified) was dissolved in 1832. He then partnered George Wragg, who had served an apprenticeship with William Harwood and Lewis Thomas. In 1833, Wragg – a ‘maker o....