Richard Lowe (1809-1888) was the son of Stannington-born Richard Lowe (1773-1852) and Ann Whittles (1785-1813).  It is not known when Richard Jun. began knife manufacture (a cutler of that name was making pen and pocket knives in Harvest Lane between about 1825 and 1841), but he can be positively identified by 1849 as a spring-knife manufacturer, 167 Eyre Street.   Two sons from his marriage in 1832 to Mary Antcliffe (1812-1901) were involved in the trade.  Lowe also employed four men.   Lowe continued to operate from Eyre Street in the 1850s and 1860s, but by 1861 his family was living in Green Head, Stannington.   By 1871, Lowe’s Sheffield workshop was based in Brown Street.  He continued to live in Stannington and died there on 22 February 1888, aged 79, and was buried in Christ Church graveyard, Stannington.   He left £313.