Originally Posted by
Arrowhead
I've just stolen the following from Neil Miller's site; I'm pretty sure he won't mind (my italics):
Originally from a farming family, Luke Cadman moved to Sheffield in 1740 and became a freeman of the cutlers company before being granted the "Bengall" mark. His sons Luke and Peter joined the company and by the early 1800s the Bengall brand had achieved a handsome international reputation. In the 1870s Thomas Radley Cadman took over the company. The inter-war period was hard for Cadman's and they diversified into other fields, including safety razor manufacture in 1933. They ceased trading in 1965.