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John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution.
John Wilkinson married Ann Maudsley, daughter of a wealthy family , whose dowry helped John to secure a share in the New Willey Company. They had no children. After Ann’s death, he tied the knot with Mary Lee whose money helped John get a hold over his company by buying out his partners.
On 12th June 1755, he married Ann Maudesley at Kirkby Lonsdale. The following year a daughter, Mary, was born. Ann died on 17 November 1756, shortly after that he moved to Bersham Ironworks, where his father had established a new business. John now managed this, and other nearby foundries.
industrialist and inventor. John Wilkinson is perhaps best known as the man who perfected a boring machine that, among other things, made possible the successful manufacture and operation of James Watt's steam engine. Born in 1728 at Clifton, Cumberland, England, Wilkinson was exposed to iron-furnace work at an early age through his father, an ...
John Wilkinson married Ann Maudsley, daughter of a wealthy family , whose dowry helped John to secure a share in the New Willey Company. They had no children. After Ann’s death, he tied the knot with Mary Lee whose money helped John get a hold over his company by buying out his partners. The couple had no children.
John Wilkinson (born 1728, Clifton, Cumberland, Eng.—died July 14, 1808, Bradley, Staffordshire) was a British industrialist known as “the great Staffordshire ironmaster” who found new applications for iron and who devised a boring machine essential to the success of James Watt’s steam engine.
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He was known as 'Iron-Mad Wilkinson'. Wilkinson died in 1808 a wealthy man. He was buried in an iron coffin.
