Joseph Rathbone
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of Liverpool, ironmaster
1785 Large-scale iron-making began with a furnace at Donnington Wood constructed by William Reynolds and Joseph Rathbone on land leased from Earl Gower, on the north side of the Donnington Wood Canal. Gower contributed £2,000 to the enterprise[1].
Joseph Rathbone's executors were his widow (?) Mary of Coalbrookdale and William Rathbone, merchant, of Liverpool[2].
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Lilleshall: Economic history, in A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11: Telford (1985), pp. 155-164. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18111 Date accessed: 28 October 2010
- ↑ National Archives [1]
