William Wood (1671–1730) was an English hardware manufacturer, ironmaster, and mintmaster, notorious for receiving a contract to strike an issue of Irish...
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Charles Wood (1702 – October 1774) was an English ironmaster and one of the inventors of the potting and stamping method of making wrought iron from pig...
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Parliament William Robertson Wood (1874–1947), Canadian Presbyterian minister and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba William Wood (ironmaster) (1671–1730)...
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with a crowned rose depicted on the reverse dated 1723. Money portal Trader's currency token of the Colony of Connecticut William Wood (ironmaster) v t e...
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a French translation by François Pétis de la Croix (d. 1713). William Wood (ironmaster) commences the minting (in London) of copper halfpence and farthings...
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William Wood (historian) (1864–1947), Canadian historian William Wood (ironmaster) (1671–1730), British ironmaster and coin mintmaster William Wood (MP for...
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William Rea (1662–1750?) was a British ironmaster, owner or partner in many ironworks. He was born on 24 February 1662 and he may have been the son of...
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Legge-Bourke; born 1 April 1965) is a Welsh former nanny and companion to Prince William and Prince Harry. She was a personal assistant to Charles III (then Prince...
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Richards (March 8, 1769 – January 4, 1842) was an American businessman and ironmaster. He was heavily involved in the New Jersey iron industry during the early...
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situated near the town of Crickhowell, Powys and was established in 1826 by ironmaster Sir Joseph Bailey. The park features in the hereditary title Baron Glanusk...
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noted Royalists who supported Charles II, and granddaughter of William Wood (ironmaster). Fryer's grandfather, also Richard (b. 22 July 1698), was a descendant...
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Wadhurst (redirect from Cousley Wood)
buildings on the High Street, Hill House and The Old Vicarage, were both ironmasters' houses, along with a number of other large houses on the outskirts of...
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of 1200 tons. The owners dismantled the furnace in 1856 due to a lack of wood and ore. "Provincial Court Land Records, 1749–1756". Maryland State Archives...
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of John Summers, the local ironmaster, and his wife Mary. William Summers was educated at the private school of a Mr. Wood, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, after...
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Wednesbury (redirect from Wood Green, West Midlands)
adjacent to the Hopkins family's New Hall Fields). Richard Parkes, a Quaker ironmaster, bought it in 1707 and moved in the following year. During the late 18th...
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Richard Woodman (martyr) (redirect from Thomasina Wood)
Woodman was born around 1524 in Buxted in East Sussex; he became an ironmaster, and became known whilst running an "iron-making" business that employed...
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Feudal barony of Hatch Beauchamp (redirect from William Seymour (died 1391))
Birmingham, had co-founded Lloyds Bank in 1765. Sampson II Lloyd was an ironmaster from Dolobran in Montgomeryshire and lived at Farm, Bordesley (now the...
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Mr Robert Rouncewell, the adult son of Mrs Rouncewell, is a prosperous ironmaster. Watt Rouncewell is Robert Rouncewell's son. Volumnia is a cousin of the...
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Northrop Grumman. Levett never gave up his job as vicar as he became an ironmaster. But if Levett's straddling of the gulf between the military-industrial...
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Creosote (section Wood-tar creosote)
a practical treatise for the use of analytical chemists, engineers, ironmasters, iron founders, students, and others. C. Lockwood & son. Pliny (1855)...
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Province of Pennsylvania (category William Penn)
founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring...
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Hardy family, ironmasters. Scoresby addressed matters in hand, but succeeded only in generating contentious issues. On finance, he took on Wood in 1840, over...
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Dud Dudley (category English ironmasters)
short time was again back in full production. However, the "charcoal ironmasters ... did him much prejudice, not only by detaining his stock, but disparaging...
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as an ironmaster and supplier of armaments to Henry VIII. Eventually the vicar's former servant Ralph Hogge, who had become a major ironmaster after Levett's...
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Philadelphia Samuel Richards (1769-1842), New Jersey ironmaster, half brother of Benjamin Wood Richards Jacob Ridgway (1768–1843), merchant and diplomat...
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Books, 8223.e.9.(95.). Treadwell 1974. J. M. Treadwell, 'William Wood and the Company of Ironmasters of Great Britain', Business History 16(2), 1974, 93-112...
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Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet (category English ironmasters)
Bailey, 1st Baronet (21 January 1783 – 20 November 1858), was an English ironmaster and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP). Bailey was born in 1783...
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Richard Reynolds (November 1735 – 10 September 1816) was an ironmaster, a partner in the ironworks in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, at a significant time...
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Wilkinson School, named after a noted ironmaster who lived nearby. For secondary education, most pupils travel to William Brookes School in Much Wenlock or...
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John Wilkinson (industrialist) (category English ironmasters)
ISBN 0-9520009-0-3. Chaloner, W.H. "Builders of Industry: John Wilkinson, Ironmaster." History Today (1951) 1#5 pp 63–69. J. R. Harris, Wilkinson, John (1728–1808)...
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