Richard Llewellyn Rathbone (1864-1939) was a relation of W. A. S. Benson who possibly influenced him in his choice of metalworking as a career. He worked on projects with Mackmurdo, Heywood Sumner and C. F. A. Voysey producing metal fittings and utensils. He set up a workshop in Liverpool and also taught in the metalworking class at Liverpool University from about 1898 until 1903. He later came to London where he was the first head of the Art School of the Sir John Cass Technical Institute and taught at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts. After he came to London he interested himself increasingly in the production of unit metalwork, largely abandoning the more elaborate work of his Liverpool days.