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John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution. He was the inventor of a precision boring machine that could bore cast iron cylinders, such as cannon barrels [ 1 ] and piston cylinders used in the steam ...
The works was founded by the pioneer industrialist John 'Iron Mad' Wilkinson.Wilkinson, who had owned the nearby Bersham Ironworks jointly with his brother William, purchased Brymbo Hall and its 500-acre estate from the Assheton-Smith family in 1792 for the sum of £14,000, some of which may have been lent by Boulton and Watt. [1]
John Wilkinson (industrialist) (1728–1808), British industrialist who suggested the use of iron for many roles John Wilkinson (1780–1796), American colonist, first son of James Wilkinson John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875), English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist
The space to expand at Bersham had run out, and Wilkinson needed to move on. He bought a house and estate at nearby Brymbo and built a blast furnace there, at what would later become Brymbo Steelworks. John Wilkinson had fallen out with his brother William, who raised a small gang to destroy Bersham Ironworks.
Brymbo Hall, one of Britain's lost houses, was a manor house located near Brymbo outside the town of Wrexham, North Wales.The house, reputed to have been partly built to the designs of Inigo Jones, [1] was noted as the residence of 18th-century industrialist and ironmaster John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson.
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