Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,344 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Barnard Dickinson

From Graces Guide

1781 Born in Beverley, Yorks[1]

Gained experience in farming before moving to Shropshire

1805 Married Ann Darby (1779-1840), daughter of Abraham Darby (1750-1789)

1810 Left agriculture to become manager of the Horsehay Works of the Coalbrookdale Co after the death of his brother-in-law Edmund Darby.

1824 First spoke as a Quaker minister

1827 He retired from the works

Their daughter, Hannah, married Joseph Sturge of Birmingham

1852 Died in Coalbrookdale.

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Sources of Information

  1. Quaker Published Memorials, 1818-1919