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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...
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.
1858), succeeded to the eastern half of Grange, the western half having gone to William Archibald Cadell. On his death, in 1855, however, his trustees conveyed it to James John Cadell, so that he became proprietor of both halves, and the estate has since remained intact.
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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The eldest son of William Cadell the younger, son of William Cadell, the original managing partner and one of the founders of the Carron Iron Works, by his wife Katherine, daughter of Archibald Inglis of Auchendinny in Midlothian, he was born at his father's residence, Carron Park, near Falkirk, on 27 June 1775. [1]
