This unusually-named cutler was the son John Justiss (or Justice).  The latter stamped his knives ‘PARIS’ – and then named his son Paris.  Leader (1905-06)¹ believed that this was ‘a unique instance’ of taking a name as a mark and then adopting a mark as a name.  John had died by the time Paris was apprenticed to John Jervis, cutler, in 1738.  He was granted his Freedom in 1744.  He retained the ‘PARIS’ mark, surmounted by a Greek Cross.

Paris Justice registered a silver mark (‘P∙J’) in 1774 as a plate worker, Spring Croft.  The directory described him as a spring-knife cutler, razor maker, and publican at the Golden Ball, Spring Street.  (Interestingly, Joseph Justice was a lancet and razor maker in 1774, using the mark ‘IN PARIS’.)  In 1797, Paris Justice was a victualler and mark maker in Spring Street, though in that year the register of St Peter & St Paul recorded the burial of Paris Justice on 3 February (age not stated).   Justice, Todd, Clarke & Co was a merchant in the directory (1811), but it apparently ceased trading in about 1815.

^1. Leader, R E, History of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire in the County of York (Sheffield, 1905-6)