Walker and Co (of Sheffield)
of Sheffield
George Walker, of Sheffield, learnt the process of electroplating that had been invented by John Wright a surgeon in Birmingham, and patented by George Richards Elkington. With support from his relation Samuel Coulson he formed a business to electro-plate articles in silver[1]. Other early partners included William Robson.
Their first customers included Dixon and Sons, maker of teapots
1843 Henry Hall (c1802-1889) was a Worcester solicitor and a man of business. When electroplating was invented, Walker, financed by Hall[2], set up the first plant in Sheffield, their formal partnership dating from 1845.
1848 Partnership change. '... the Partnership heretofore subsisting between the undersigned, George Walker, Samuel Coulson and William Robson, as Electro-Platers, and carried on at Sheffield, in the county of York, under the firm of Walker and Co. was, so far as concerns the said William Robson, dissolved by mutual as on the 22th day of November last.'[3]
The business continued as Walker, Coulson and Hall
1853 Walker and Hall company was founded at the same address.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ see Samuel Coulson: The Story of Electro-Plating in Sheffield
- ↑ Not sure of the source of this - Hall didn't move to Sheffield until after 1851
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:6 March 1849 Issue:20953 Page:768