Abraham Darby III (24 April 1750 – 1789) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution.[1]
^Skempton, A. W. (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500–1830. Thomas Telford. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
AbrahamDarby, in his later life called AbrahamDarby the Elder, now sometimes known for convenience as AbrahamDarby I (14 April 1677 – 5 May 1717, the...
parish called the Gorge. This is where iron ore was first smelted by AbrahamDarby using easily mined "coking coal". The coal was drawn from drift mines...
about the use of iron, construction took place over 2 years, with AbrahamDarbyIII responsible for the ironwork. The bridge crosses the Ironbridge Gorge...
production. The first cast-iron bridge was built during the 1770s by AbrahamDarbyIII, and is known as the Iron Bridge in Shropshire, England. Cast iron...
cylinders because the engines alone could not produce a steady air blast. AbrahamDarbyIII installed similar steam-pumped, water-powered blowing cylinders at...
an assistant bookkeeper at Coalbrookdale after the death of AbrahamDarby I. Thomas III resultantly became involved as an investor in a number of businesses...
children. Abraham and Abiah moved to their new house, Sunniside, in 1750. Dale House was enlarged by subsequent generations: in 1776 AbrahamDarbyIII converted...
enabling it to extract coal and iron ore. The works were taken over by AbrahamDarbyIII of the Coalbrookdale Company in 1776. When the company was reorganised...
to develop. Robertson engaged William Henry Darby and Charles Edward Darby, grandsons of AbrahamDarbyIII of Coalbrookdale, to manage the works. The works...
Iron Bridge, the first arch bridge made of cast iron, is built by AbrahamDarbyIII. 1783 A pioneer of selective breeding and artificial selection, Robert...
goods made of cast iron, from cooking pots upwards. His descendant AbrahamDarbyIII made and assembled the sections of The Iron Bridge across the Coalbrookdale...
the wharves almost within sight of the Ironbridge (built later by AbrahamDarbyIII, completed in 1779). Horsehay is home to the Telford Steam Railway...
Dickinson, daughter of Barnard Dickinson and his wife Ann Darby, who was granddaughter of AbrahamDarbyIII; and they had five children, one being the peace campaigner...
Bridge" further upstream was already being prepared as an icon by AbrahamDarbyIII; the wooden bridge was short-lived and lasted less than 5 years until...
Rathbone III. and Joseph. He died in 1746. It was probably through business connections that William's son, Joseph, married Mary Darby, a sister of Abraham Darby...
Smitheman and from him to their son John who sold it in 1774 to AbrahamDarbyIII. In 1781 Darby sold it to his former brother-in-law Richard Reynolds, his...
Ironbridge Arch bridge; the world's first cast iron bridge, built by AbrahamDarbyIII, now foot access only. In the 1970s, major work was undertaken to...
estate. The house itself was later occupied by the Darby family, the descendants of AbrahamDarbyIII, who were appointed as the ironworks managers. During...
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