Lawrence Henry Lee was born in Sheffield in 1846, possibly the son of Lawson Lee (a cutler) and his wife, Jane.  Lawrence was a working cutler (apart from a spell as a warehouse man), who apparently never appeared in a directory.  However, he was a specialist in exhibition sportsman’s knives.   At the Sheffield Industrial Exhibition, he attached his name to a ¾-inch knife, with 63 instruments (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 6 July 1885).  A fine example of his work was displayed at an exhibition at the Millennium Gallery in 2015.  On Thursday 19 May 1911, he went missing.  He was found drowned the following morning at Nether Catford Dam in the Rivelin valley.   At the inquest, his family testified that he had been ‘queer in his mind’ for eighteen months and had been drinking more than was good for him.   ‘Suicide whilst temporarily insane’ was the verdict (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 20 May 1911).  His burial was at Walkley Cemetery.