William Rayner & Company
Directories listed William Rayner & Co between 1822 and 1837. It was based in St James Street, first as a merchant and steel manufacturer, but later as a merchant and table knife and razor manufacturer. The senior partner, William Rayner, lived at Red Place by 1837. He died on 25 June 1839, aged 64. A man of the ‘strictest probity’ was an obituarist’s assessment (Sheffield Independent, 29 June 1839).