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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 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.

Seaham Harbour

From Graces Guide

1822 Charles William Stewart, who later becane third marquess of Londonderry, married Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest; he took the surname Vane. He threw himself enthusiastically into his wife's coal concerns in County Durham, investing heavily in property, and recruiting the foremost mining viewer of his day, John Buddle, as his agent.

He commissioned the building of Seaham Harbour, exporting its first coal in 1831.

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Sources of Information


  • Biography of Charles William Vane, third marquess of Londonderry (1778–1854), ODNB