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William Archibald Cadell of Cockenzie (1708–1777) was a Scottish industrialist, one of the pioneers of the industrial revolution on the Firth of Forth. He was a member of a merchant family involved in the import of iron from Russia and Sweden.
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.
Industrialist 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...
In the early 1870s, Cadell was involved in whaling, trading, pearling and “blackbirding” in North-West Australia. Cadell and others were also known for their coercion, capture and sale of Aboriginal people as slaves. In 1874 he engaged 10 people at Batavia, described as Malays.
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.
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.
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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."
