Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,256 pages of information and 244,497 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Thomas Gilbert Sorby

From Graces Guide

Thomas Gilbert Sorby (1887-1966), only son of Thomas William Sorby, managing director of Thomas Sorby and Sons

1891 Living at 55 Graham Road, Ranmoor, Upper Hallam, Yorkshire: Thomas W. Sorby (age 38 born Sheffield), Iron Merchant. With his wife Pauline and their son Thomas G. Sorby (age 4 born Sheffield) and two daughters.[1]

1911 Living at Southfield, Ranmoor, Sheffield: Thomas G. Sorby (age 24 born Sheffield), Iron and Steel Merchant. With his widow mother Pauline, and two sisters.[2]

1928 Elected Master Cutler.[3]

1939 Living at Bubnell Hall, Bakewell, Iron and Steel Merchant, with Dorothea Sorby.[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1891 Census
  2. 1911 Census
  3. Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 22 August 1928
  4. 1939 Census