Godfrey Stibbe
Godfrey Stibbe (c1857-1939) of G. Stibbe and Co
1900 Patent. 'Godfrey Stibbe, improvements relating to automatic circular knitting machines and to fabrics produced thereon.'[1]
1901 Living at 15 Sandown Road, Leicester: Godfrey Stibbe (age 44 born Holland, British subject), Maws Hosiery Machinery Merchant and Agent. With his wife Sophie, two sons and a daughter.<ref<1901 Census</ref>
1939 Died. 'A Founder and head of one of the largest hosiery firms in the country, Mr. Godfrey Stibbe, of Knighton House, Leicester, died today at the age of 81. He was chairman of G. Stibbe and Co., Ltd., hosiery machine builders and manufacturers of knitted piece goods, of Newarke-street, Leicester. He started the business as a private company in Glasgow in 1886 and, after spending a year or two in London, he transferred the business to Leicester in 1898. It was then G. Stibbe and Co., and was formed into a limited liability company in 1920. The original Leicester premises were a modest building in Office Chambers, Belvoir-street. Before he came to Leicester he had representatives here.....[2]