William Joseph Ward (1843-1923) was born in Sheffield, the son of William (a grinder) and Jane Ward.  In 1861, his father was a grocer in Hillfoot (and also a table knife grinder); his son was a merchant’s apprentice.  He became a table knife manager and later (probably in 1876) the ‘successor’ of W. T. Greenstreet.  In 1879, he was based in Carver Street as a table cutlery manufacturer; and according to the Census (1881) employed seven males and three females.  He advertised in 1884 from Arundel Street, using Greenstreet’s former factory name, Selborne Works.  Ward’s venture was brief.  By the 1890s, he was a cutlery manager again (possibly running the former business of Henry C. Booth, for whom he had once been manager).  He died in Truswell Road, Crookes, on 23 March 1923, aged 79.  He was described as a ‘retired cutlery manager’.  He left £1,387.