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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The business was found by Charles Stuart Harris in 1897.
They acquired an extensive range of premises in Hatton Garden, Red Lion Street, Bateman Street in Soho, the latter probably acquired in December 1897 from two other Stuart Harris’ – Arthur and Ernst who were trading as ‘Harris Brothers’.
The company kept trading until 1934 but had given up most of their premises by that time except those at 41 & 43 Hatton Garden. They were eventually taken over by I Freeman & Sons, another manufacturing silversmiths and dealers in antique silver and plated items also of Hatton Garden.
Places
London
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
The limited company formed in 1897 was listed as ‘manufacturers and dealers in gold and silver plate, wire and lace, manufacturing gold and silversmiths and dealers in gold, silver, diamonds and other precious metals and stones as well as electroplaters and jewellers’.
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Internal structures/genealogy
John Mark Harris started the firm in 1817 as a spoon maker.
John Robert Harris, John Mark's son, took over the company in 1843 as a silver spoon and fork manufacturer.
Charles Stuart Harris took over the business in 1852. He was listed in 1858 as an electroplater, gilder, spoon and fork maker and manufacturer of plated wares and silversmith.
In 1885 he took over the business of D.J.&C Houle, manufacturing silversmiths and retained their workshops in Red Lion Street in Clerkenwell. Charles Stuart Harris went on to open further manufacturing workshops in Hatton Garden in 1892.
The limited company C.S.Harris and Sons Ltd was founded in 1897. The directors of the company were a number of ‘Stuart Harris’ men- Henry, Walter, Edwin, Alfred and Frederick.