Arthur John Arnold (1864-1940) was born at Greenwich, but by 1901 was living at Sheffield and working as the principal of a teaching college.  By the First World War, A. J. Arnold was attracted by the cutlery and tool trade.  With his son, John Arthur Perry (1892-1967), he launched Arnold & Son as a manufacturer of scissors.  In 1915, they became subscribers in Sheffield Scissors & Razor Co Ltd (the forerunner of Sheffield Scissors, Razor & Tool Co Ltd), Chaucer Works, Clough Road.  In the Sheffield directory (1919), Arnold & Son was listed as a scissors manufacturer at Clough Road.  A. J. Arnold seems to have been involved in the management of both firms.  In that year, Arnold & Son was absorbed by Sheffield Steel Products Ltd.  The address of Arnold & Son was stated as Burgess Street.  A. J. Arnold later moved to Croydon, where he was enumerated in the Register of England & Wales (1939) as ‘schoolmaster afterwards cutlery and tool manufacturer.  Retired’.   He died at Croydon on 29 July 1940, leaving £168.  John Arthur Perry Arnold became a metallurgist in Birmingham.  He died on 14 November 1967, leaving £3,271.