Edwin Bostock and Co
of Stone, Staffordshire
Footwear manufacturers
1840 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between us, William Sharpe Matthews and Edwin Bostock, as Shoe-Manufacturers, at Stone, in the county of Stafford, was dissolved, by mutual consent, this day. The said Edwin Bostock will pay and receive all debts due to or from the late firm...'[1]
1842 Partnership change. '...the Partnership lately subsisting between us, under the several firms of Thomas Bostock and Sons, Stafford, and Bostock and Co, Horse Shoe Manufacturers, is now dissolved by mutual consent, so far as concerns Edwin Bostock. The said Edwin Bostock will pay and receive all outstanding debts due to or from the Stafford branch of the business, which will in future be conducted by him solely on his own account.— Dated this 28th November 1842. Thomas Bostock. Edwin Bostock. Frederick Bostock. Thomas Bostock, junr.'[2]
The Stafford factory specialized in the production of women's shoes.
1919 Frederick Bostock Ltd amalgamated with Edwin Bostock and Co of Stafford and Stone, to become Lotus Ltd.