Morphy Richards is a brand of electrical appliances headquartered in Swinton, in South Yorkshire, England. Its products were formerly made at its historic home of Mexborough and in other facilities across the United Kingdom. However, since the 1990s, all of its manufacturing is now carried out in the Far East. Donal Morphy of Chislehurst and Charles Richards of Farnborough, London formed Morphy Richards Ltd on 8 July 1936 at an oast house in St Mary Cray in Kent. Morphy and Richards were joint managing directors and had raised £1,000. It began making electric fires, and from March 1938, it made electric irons. During the war, its factories made components for the aircraft industry.