John Milner & Company (Sheffield) Ltd
When John Milner (c.1789-1863), a spring-knife cutler, gave evidence to a Select Committee on Manufactures, Commerce and Shipping (Parliamentary Papers, 1833), he stated: ‘I commenced when I was between nine or ten years of age. I have been in it about 33 years. I worked principally as a journeyman, but within the last two or three years I have been manufacturing on my account. [I employ] only a son of my own, together with three others, who are apprentice with me in the hafting branch&rsq....
