Benjamin Wilkinson was a table knife manufacturer, who was listed in directories at Meadow Street between 1811 and 1828.  The directory of 1797, which listed Benjamin Wilkinson, table knife manufacturer at Harvest Lane, may refer to the same man.  Wilkinson died on 5 November 1828, aged 75.  He was buried on the south side of Carver Street Methodist Chapel Yard, with the remains of his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1820, aged 69).  He was known as ‘Father Wilkinson’ because of his work on behalf of the Wesleyan Society in Sheffield, ‘having been a member thereof almost sixty years’ (Sheffield Independent, Saturday 15 November 1828).  In the following year, the lease of his property in Meadow Street was offered at auction.  It consisted of four dwelling houses and ‘convenient workshops’, with a frontage to Allen Street, besides Meadow Street, containing 558 superficial square yards (Sheffield Independent, Saturday 2 May 1829).