Joel Horwood
of Horwood and Monkman (Oldham).
Joel Horwood (c. 1800 – 18 May 1864) was a mechanical engineer from Oldham, Lancashire, who arrived in Adelaide, South Australia on the 'Baboo' in 1848. In 1849 he founded the Colonial Iron Works in Hindley Street, Adelaide. At least three of his four sons were educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution; all followed in the same line of business, initially with him, then in different parts of Australia. As Horwood and Son, then Horwood & Sons, he was able to supply the mining industry with urgently required equipment. With his death and changes in ownership, it became successively Horwood, Ellis & Stevens, Horwood & Ellis in 1866, then Ellis & Chittleborough in 1868. That firm failed and the business was taken over by James A. Whitfield in 1869. In 1856 his eldest son, also named Joel Horwood (1832 – 4 May 1900), opened a branch of Horwood & Sons in Vine Street, Bendigo (then called Sandhurst). He was a successful breeder of Shorthorn cattle and Cleveland and Clydesdale horses at his property "Bridgewater Park". [1]