Henry Biggin, who was born in Sheffield about 1833, was the son of Samuel Biggin and his wife Ann.   His father was a white metal smith.  In 1851, the family lived in Salford, with father and son enumerated in the Census as a brass moulder journeyman and brass finisher journeyman, respectively.  Henry joined James Dixon & Sons in about 1855 and by the early 1870s was manager of the Britannia metal department.  He had charge of the handle section and Samuel Wilkinson Biggin (the son of Joshua Biggin and thirteen others worked under him.  Henry was dismissed in January 1875, after Dixon’s claimed that he was stealing the patterns of metal handles.  The episode resulted in a legal case, which apparently neither side won (Sheffield Independent, 17 April 1875).  In the following year, Henry Biggin partnered Wilfred Wolstenholme in an electro-plate business.  When that ended in 1879, Biggin launched Henry Biggin & Co, Arundel Electroplate Works, Arundel Street.   According to the Census (1881),  the firm employed seventeen workers.  Henry Biggin died at Park Farm, Cricket Inn Road, on 20 February 1883, aged 49.   He was buried in City Road Cemetery.  He had been president of St Stephen’s Young Men’s Bible Class.  He left an estate of £1,277.