P. Beaumont Smith
The name on this knife denotes Percy Beaumont Smith, a manufacturing silversmith. In the Sheffield directory (1913) his address was Exchange Buildings, Fargate. After the War, Percy Beaumont Smith had a workshop at 86 West Street (back of) and was living at Ranby Road, Ecclesall. Strangely, ‘Percy Beaumont Smith’ is untraceable in the standard genealogical sources. That is because his actual name was Percy Thomas Bowman Smith. He was born in Manchester on 20 October 1876 and baptised at Urmston in 1885. His ....
