Stevenson and Law

Job Stevenson / Stevenson & Law By the 1840s, Job Stevenson (1824-1907) was a silversmith in Edmund/Hammond Street.   His father – Job (1787-1858) – was a die sinker (and publican at the Rose and Crown, Waingate).  The father died on 5 October 1858 at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield.  By 1860, Job the younger was running Edgerton Hotel and manufacturing silver and electro-plate goods in Edgerton Street.   In 1881, he told the Census that he was ‘only employing men when busy’.  Job died in Parliament Street, Harrogate, on 27 June 1907, aged 83.  He was interred (like his father) in the General Cemetery. Job the younger’s son – Job (1858-1939) – became a silver smith and electro-plater and by 1894 had launched Stevenson & Law in Orchard Street.  This partnership with William Henry Law ended in 1895.   Job continued as Stevenson & Law and registered a silver mark in 1896.  In about 1900, he moved to Monument Works, Carver Street.  In 1908, Stevenson & Law was bought by London silversmith and entrepreneur (Sir) Daniel George Collins, who retained Job to run the Sheffield operation (Culme, 1987)1.   It ceased trading in about 1932.  Job Stevenson, of Abbeydale Road, died on 30 May 1939, leaving £532.

1. Culme, John, The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2 vols, 1987)