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William Bush Sellers (abt. 1822 - 1880)

William Bush Sellers
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Died at about age 58 [location unknown]
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Biography

Christened in Sheffield Cathedral in July 1822 Recorded in 1852 as spring knife etc manufacturer. Part of his father's business John Sellers and Sons. In 1866 was listed as a manufacturer of cutlery employing 26 men, 16 boys, 3 women and a girl, living in Victoria Road, Ecclesall Beirlow.

Left a personal estate of under 4,000 pounds.

In 1856, William Bush Sellers and Abraham Sellers, of the firm of John Sellers & Sons, took out a patent on the invention of ‘an improvement in “ever pointed” pencil cases’ (London Gazette 3 October 1856).

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