Career
Born in Norfolk in 1777 and a miller by training, Jeremiah Colman managed a mill at Bawburgh before buying his own mill at Pockthorpe in 1803. In 1814 he bought the mustard business of Edward Ames and moved it to a mill at Stoke Holy Cross where he started crushing mustard seed. By 1829 he was selling mustard in London.
Colman died in 1851 but within 20 years of this death his mustard business had become a Victorian household name.
