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- He was a member of a merchant family involved in the import of iron from Russia and Sweden. He and his son, also William (baptised 1737, died 1819), were founders with Samuel Garbett and John Roebuck, of the Carron Iron Works, in 1759, originally known as Roebuck, Garbett & Cadells.
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William Cadell was the manager of collieries and a sulphuric acid works in East Lothian. These proved successful and he was invited to invest with others in a modern ironworks. They set...
One of the company founders, William Cadell, had the infrastructure in the form of ships for the movement of goods along the Forth and beyond, but these key components were nothing without power for the blast furnaces. Water was the key to this enterprise.
He was from a family of merchants whose main was the import of iron from Russia and Sweden. The Seven Years' War demanded iron for weapons, but the flow of iron was itself disrupted by the war, so that strenuous means were made to produce iron in Scotland.
In the lease William Cadell is designed as merchant at Carron, and John merchant at Cockenzie. When the lessees arrived they found the works in a state of dilapidation. The five saltpans were without a roof, and were "greatly consumed by rust."
William Cadell (1708–1777) of the Carron Co, of Prestonpans and Cockenzie, shipmaster, merchant, and industrialist. 1708 Born the son of William Cadell (1668-1728). Members of the Cadell family played a key role in the development of a coke-fired iron industry in Scotland on a large scale in the last two decades of the eighteenth century.
Mar 11, 2021 · During lockdown on a walk through Edinburgh’s Warriston Cemetery, I came across the unassuming sandstone slab erected in memory of William Archibald Cadell of Banton (1775-1855). He was an antiquarian and had set himself the task to identify a group of large, sculpted deities that his brother-in-law, ship captain Francis Simpson of Plean, had ...
