Thomas Holbem (bapt.1766-1832) was the son of John (a grocer) and Lydia née Dickinson.  Thomas was baptised as a Quaker.  He was apprenticed to William Wright, a cutler, in 1780 and became a Freeman in 1802.  He went into business as a razor maker and in 1803 took on an apprentice, John Bartlem.  Thomas Holbem partnered Samuel Bentley and Edmund Wilson, but this folded in 1808.  Bentley & Wilson became wholesale ironmongers at Norfolk Street; Thomas traded alone, but was not listed in a directory in 1811.  Two years later, he was insolvent, when he was a razor maker, ‘late of Sheffield’.  He died in Sheffield on 6 March 1832.  A Quaker burial register (Balby) recorded that he was interred at Sheffield, but was ‘not a member’.  His sister, Lydia, had married William Hargreaves (see Hargreaves, Smith & Co).