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Quakers Who Died Between 1700 and 1799: Jonathan Dickinson, Abraham Darby I, John Bartram, Margaret Fell, Peter Collinson, Anthony Benezet

Quakers Who Died Between 1700 and 1799: Jonathan Dickinson, Abraham Darby I, John Bartram, Margaret Fell, Peter Collinson, Anthony Benezet


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jonathan Dickinson, Abraham Darby I, John Bartram, Margaret Fell, Peter Collinson, Anthony Benezet, John Fothergill, John Hunt, Joshua Evans, Elizabeth Haddon, Thomas Ellwood, Abraham Darby Ii, John Barton, Samuel Bownas. Excerpt: Abraham Darby (14 April 1678 8 March 1717) was the first, and most famous, of three generations with that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the Industrial Revolution . He developed a method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke rather than charcoal . This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the Industrial Revolution. Early life Abraham Darby was the son of John Darby, a yeoman farmer and locksmith by trade, and his wife, Ann Baylies. He was born at Wrens Nest, Woodsetton, near Sedgley, Staffordshire, just across the county boundary from Dudley . He was descended from nobility, his great-grandmother Jane having been an illegitimate child of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley . Abraham's great-grandmother was a sister of the whole blood to Dud Dudley, who claimed to smelted iron using coke as a fuel. Unfortunately, the iron that Dudley produced was not acceptable to the charcoal ironmasters. However, this may have inspired his great-grandnephew Darby to adopt perfect this novel method of smelting. Darby was apprenticed in Birmingham to Jonathan Freeth, a malt mill maker and fellow Quaker. Freeth encouraged Darby to be an active member in the Society of Friends, and he remained so all his life. In 1699, when he completed his apprenticeship, he married Mary Sergeant (1678-1718) and moved to Bristol, where he set himself up as a malt mill maker. Bristol There was a small community of Quakers in Bristol, and Darby soon gained a reputation for skill and enterprise. In 1...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155581804
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 104 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155581806
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Jonathan Dickinson, Abraham Darby I, John Bartram, Margaret Fell, Peter Collinson, Anthony Benezet
  • Width: 229 mm


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