H. Willgoose & Company
Horace Willgoose (c.1885-1968) was born in Sheffield, the son of Thomas Willgoose, a cabinet case fitter, and his wife, Betsy. By 1911, Horace was a silversmith. He apparently began business in the early 1920s. He was a partner (with William Henry Briggs and John Henry Savage) in Empress Supply Co, general dealers, which was dissolved in 1923. He next launched H. Willgoose & Co in Regent Terrace, as a manufacturer of stainless table cutlery. The firm was bankrupt in 1934. Willgoose’s subsequent career is untraced, but he was not listed as a cutlery manufacturer after that date.