A razor smith, Thomas Turner first appeared in a Sheffield directory in 1854 in Milton Street.   By 1859, he was working in Thomas Street, Little Sheffield, and the next year took out an advertisement in the trade directory, which described him as a ‘Manufacturer of Every Description of Razors.  All Warranted’.  He sold ‘Good and cheap razors, suitable for country trade, American or German’ (Sheffield Independent, 12 February 1859).   His business was last listed in 1871.  Turner died on 12 March 1874, aged 55, and was buried in unconsecrated ground in the General Cemetery.   His trade mark was the word ‘EVERLASTING’ (acquired later by Stacey Bros and by A. H. Bisby).