John Wilkinson

male, deceased (1808)
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 - 1808) was an English industrialist who suggested the use of cast iron for many roles where other materials had...
Henry Cort

Henry Cort

male, deceased (1800)
Henry Cort (1740 - 1800) was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought...
Abraham Darby III

Abraham Darby III

male, deceased (1791)
Abraham Darby III (1750 - 1791) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker...
Abraham Darby I

Abraham Darby I

male, deceased (1717)
Abraham Darby (ca. 1678 - March 8, 1717) was the first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the...
Abraham Darby II

Abraham Darby II

male, deceased (1763)
Abraham Darby II (1711 - 1763) was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial...
Philip Foley

Philip Foley

male, deceased (1716)
Philip Foley was the youngest of the three surviving sons of the British ironmaster Thomas Foley (1616-1677). His father transferred to him in 1668...

Thomas Foley

male, deceased (1677)
Thomas Foley was the eldest son of the second marriage (to Alice Brindley) of Richard Foley (1588 – 1657), a prominent Midlands ironmaster. He to...
James Irvin

James Irvin

male, deceased (1862)
James Irvin (1800 - 1862) is an American politician. Irvin was a prominent agriculturalist and ironmaster in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Irvin...
Ambrose Crowley

Ambrose Crowley

male, deceased (1713)
Sir Ambrose Crowley III (1658-1713) was a 17th century English ironmaster.

David Thomas

male, deceased (1882)
David Thomas (1794 - 1882) was a native of Wales who was influential in the birth of the Industrial Revolution.