Little is known about the early life of Henry Wostenholm (c.1819-1879).  In 1851, he appeared in the Census as a knife and razor manufacturer.  His business address was Solly Street.  In 1855, he announced that he was the sole proprietor of the mark of ‘B. Micklethwaite’, (Sheffield Independent, 20 June 1855).  Wostenholm was an obscure trader and not a very successful one.  In 1861, he became insolvent and moved from Solly Street to Change Alley in the town centre, where he operated as a cutlery agent.   He later years were blighted by illness and poverty and he became a recipient of a pension from the Iron, Hardware & Metal Trades Society.  He died in  the care of his son-in-law at Grindleford Bridge on 23 June 1879, aged 60.  According to a tribute in The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 8 July 1879, he was a Liberal in politics and Dissenter in religion, and ‘no man [was] better known or more roundly maligned’.  Nothing was said about Wostenholm’s working life.