Probably this firm had its roots in Thorpe, Turner & Co, which by 1816 was a merchant in Orchard Street.  The partners were William Thorpe, Thomas Turner, William Rowley, and Hall Overend.  The latter was presumably Sheffield’s Quaker surgeon Hall Overend (1772-1831).  Possibly, the ‘Turner’ was Thomas Turner.  Another cutler involved with these men was George Addy.  The partners acquired an additional member in 1821, when John Brownill joined them with his patented knife handle.  In 1822, after Brownill’s death, Thorp [sic], Wragg & Yeomans was listed in Orchard Street.  However, in 1823 John Yeomans – a factor and scissors maker in Arundel Street – withdrew and the firm’s name changed again to Thorpe, Wragg & Co, Carver Street.  It sold table knives and other cutlery, besides a listing as a steel converter and refiner.  The partners were William Thorpe and George Wragg. 

In 1831, this partnership, too, was dissolved and it appears that William Thorpe continued alone in Carver Street.  William Thorpe, Norton Lees, died (aged 55) on 9 May 1833 and was buried in Norton.  Thorpe, Glossop & Middleton, merchant and table, pen and pocket knife manufacturer in Carver Street, was listed in 1837, but not thereafter.  Glossop & Nutt was a ‘successor’ of sorts.