Three successive generations of the same family all bearing the name Abraham Darby are renowned for their contributions to the development of the English iron industry.
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Alphonse Gourju (ironmaster from Rives), Renage, and Brignoud from the valley of Gresivaudan installed a remarkable puddling furnace at Bonpertuis which is well preserved today.
On the 23 May 1877, Williams met his future wife Rose Harriette, eldest daughter of Robert Thompson Crawshay the ironmaster of Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr.
In 1830 he was engaged as a private secretary to William Cockerill, the ironmaster, near Liège, began writing in French in the Courrier Belge, and sent English poems to a local newspaper called The Telegraph.
An elegant house was built in the 1730s, of which only the Dovecote remains, and extended in the 1830s by a local ironmaster, John Dixon.
The furnace probably passed to Kendall & Co. (probably Jonathan Kendall and his brother Henry), West Midlands Ironmasters with extensive interests scattered across Staffordshire, Cheshire, The Lake District and Scotland.
In 1869, ironmaster William Menelaus convened and chaired a meeting at the Midland Railway's Queen's Hotel in Birmingham, West Midlands, which led to the founding of the Iron and Steel Institute, which received its Royal Charters in 1899 and 1975.
The Beacon was backed by the Ironmaster Sir Joseph Bailey Bt. and local conservatives.
The first part of the line to be built required the private Silverdale & Newcastle Railway, built in 1850 by ironmaster Ralph Sneyd, to become public.
William Hazledine (1763, Waters Upton, Shropshire – 26 October 1840, Shrewsbury, Shropshire) was a pioneering English Ironmaster whose talent for casting structural ironwork helped to realise the designs of engineers such as Thomas Telford and architects including Henry Goodridge and Charles Bage.