David Mellor
David Rogerson Mellor was born in Sheffield on 5 October 1930, the son of Colin and Ivy Mellor. His father worked for the Sheffield Twist Drill Co. His earliest paid employment was making models of the ships broken up by local scrap merchant Thomas Ward. He studied silver smithing at Sheffield College of Art, the Royal College of Art (with a thesis on the Sheffield cutlery industry), and the British School at Rome, before returning to Sheffield in 1954 to set up his own workshop and design office in Eyre St....
