Born in Sheffield in about 1839, Ellis Longley was the son of Elias Longley (see Longley Bros) and his wife Mary.  Ellis worked as a scissors forger and eventually operated in Snow Lane.  In 1879, he was listed as a manufacturer of tailors’ shears and a full range of scissors for horse clipping, pruning, flowers, and vines.  However, he only occupied a small forge, with a couple of hearths and a hired hand, and relied upon firms such as Joseph Rodgers & Sons for orders.  Until at least the 1880s, he had a grocery and fruit shop, which he ran with the help of his wife.  Ellis’s first directory listing was apparently in 1871, when he was a shopkeeper in Harold Street, Walkley.  He launched legal claims for damage to his gig (Sheffield Independent, 20 January 1876) and for breach of contract against a scissors forger he employed (Sheffield Independent, 23 October 1888).  Ellis Longley died on 14 March 1892, aged 53.  After leaving work, he had headed for Kelvin Grove Inn, Infirmary Road, where he bought three separate helpings of tripe from a hawker – the last of which he consumed with ‘considerable avidity’, before leaving the pub with a ‘sickly look on his face’.  He was later found dead in the yard – ‘A Peculiar Sudden Death’, wrote The Sheffield Independent, 16 March 1892.  He was buried at Wardsend Cemetery, leaving £97.