This razor maker may have had a family link with Joseph Elliot, though that has proved difficult to confirm (partly because the name was sometimes spelled as ‘Elliott’ in directories).  He was born in about 1795 and by 1841 was living in Western Bank with his wife, Ann, and four daughters and a son.  He partnered Joseph Elliot until 1850.  By 1851, he was working and living in Townhead Street.  At the Great Exhibition (1851), he displayed razors ground so thin that he claimed that they never needed grinding again, besides ornate razors with gold and silver backs.  John Elliot, razor manufacturer, New Porter Street, died in 17 February 1858 (aged 63).  He was buried in the unconsecrated section of the General Cemetery.