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Dowlais Ironworks by George Childs (1840). The Dowlais Ironworks was a major ironworks and steelworks located at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales.Founded in the 18th century, it operated until the end of the 20th, at one time in the 19th century being the largest steel producer in the UK.
Dowlais came to prominence in the 18th and 19th centuries because of its iron and steelworks. By the mid-1840s there were between 5000 and 7000 men, women and children employed in the Dowlais works. [7] During the early to mid 1800s the ironworks were operated by Sir John Josiah Guest and (from 1833) his wife Lady Charlotte Guest. Charlotte ...
Dowlais Group plc is a British company operating in the automotive and powder metallurgy industries. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index . [ 2 ]
[4] [6] [16] There are two Grade II* listed engine houses in the county, one built in 1836 at the Ynysfach Ironworks (operated as part of the Cyfarthfa complex), [17] and the other in the early 20th century at the Dowlais Ironworks. In the first half of the 19th century Cyfarthfa was surpassed by Dowlais as the largest ironworks in the world. [18]
Charlotte Guest took assisted management of Dowlais Ironworks after the death of her husband in 1852. [8] She along with G. T. Clark and Edward Divett would become executors and trustees of the Ironworks. As a result of this Guest would be sole trustee while a widow but she remarried in 1855 to Charles Schreiber and de facto control fell to ...
Lewis was the partner who arranged the mineral leases and construction of the new ironworks: the works were carried out by his business, Thomas Lewis & Co. [3] He headed the business and his family interest was not bought out until 1848. [3] He was also a partner in the firm of Coles, Lewis & Co which had interests at Melin-y-cwrt and Ynys-y ...
In 1838, Guest was created a baronet, of Dowlais in the County of Glamorgan. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] After his death in 1852, Guest was succeeded by his eldest son, who was elevated to the peerage in 1880 as Baron Wimborne , of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset , on Disraeli 's initiative.
In 1864, he worked at the London office of the Dowlais Iron Co. In 1869, he was deputy general manager of the Dowlais Ironworks under Menelaus. At the end of 1870, he became manager of the Cwmavon Works. Later he worked at the Blaenavon Ironworks. He became associated with the Thomas-Gilchrist attempts to make a satisfactory metal from ...