In 1786, Richard Crawshay and partners took over the lease of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks, and soon engaged the canal engineer Thomas Dadford to survey a route for a canal to Cardiff.

In December of that year he married Charlotte the daughter of Ironmaster Richard Crawshay, becoming a partner in the Cyfarthfa Ironworks and owner of Hensol Castle and the Abercarn estate.

James had worked at Merthyr Tydfil as a partner of William Crawshay in the Cyfarthfa Ironworks and when he returned to Wortley in 1791 after the dissolution of their partnership, he introduced puddling to Wortley, the tinmill probably being altered to roll blooms into bars of iron.

The ironworks was in already existence during the late 18th century and passed through a succession of owners before being purchased in 1819 by William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa, in whose family it remained until closure in 1859.

Under Richard Crawshay, the Cyfarthfa works rapidly became an important producer of iron products.

It was also during this period that Crawshay had built a home, which became known as Cyfarthfa Castle.

Robert Thompson Crawshay was the last of the great Crawshay Ironmasters, as foreign competition and the rising cost of iron ore ( much of which had to be imported as local supplies were exhausted ) exacted a heavy toll on the Cyfarthfa works.

In 1791, Crawshay terminated the partnership, which had been barely profitable, and continued the works alone, adding further furnaces in the following years.

Crawshay stayed at Rhodesia from 1890 to 1891 when he abandoned the station and returned to Blantyre in Nyasaland.

Crawshay resisted this, and the canal tolls were reduced somewhat, but the ironmasters on the east side of the Taff Valley soon built the Merthyr Tramroad, which opened in 1802 and linked their iron works to the canal at Abercynon, near the River Taff aqueduct.

The village is historically connected with the Crawshay family who established a major tinplate works in 1835.

His first volume of his own works was published in Morpeth in 1859, a copy of which came to the attention of James Thomas Clephan, at that time editor of the “ Gateshead Observer ”, a relatively new newspaper and the first in Gateshead When told by Skipsey of his dire situation, Clephan obtained a job for him at Hawks Crawshay and Son ironworks in Gateshead.

The court directed a lease of the whole works to Richard Crawshay, who took as his partners, William Stevens ( a London merchant ) and James Cockshutt.

William Crawshay II was appointed by his father William Crawshay to manage the works after Richard's death in 1810.

Other instrumental industries in Pontypridd were the-Brown Lenox / Newbridge Chain & Anchor Works south east of the town, and Crawshay ’ s Forest Iron, Steel & Tin Plate Works and the Taff Vale Iron Works, both in Treforest near the now University of Glamorgan.

The east window and two small ones in the chancel were erected by the neighbouring gentry to the memory of Crawshay Bailey esq., the great ironmaster of Nant-y-glo, who is buried here.

The Crawshay family were powerful, almost all powerful in the production of steel, and the Hirwaun Ironworks had produced cannons used on HMS Victory.

The mine was subsequently bought by Francis Crawshay to supply the Crawshay Ironworks in Treforest.

* May 23 – William Crawshay II, industrialist ( b. 1788 )

Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.

By 1889 it had been made a county borough, but in the same year one of the largest employers, Hawks, Crawshay and Company, closed down and unemployment has since been a burden.

The survey was paid for by Crawshay and three other Merthyr ironmasters, and was completed in 1789.

Richard Crawshay was the principal shareholder in the canal company, and seems to have used his influence to his own advantage, treating the canal as his own.

Lewis Carroll states in the first surviving diary of his early manhood, that he met ' three nice little children ' belonging to a Mrs Crawshay in Tynemouth on 21 August 1855.

In order to show British administrative authority and determination to prevent the absorption of NER by the Belgians or Germans, Sir Johnston decided to send a former hunter and now agent of the African Lakes Company, Richard Crawshay, to set up a permanent post on the shores of Lake Mweru in 1890.

Crawshay found a spot at Puta, where Chienge stream enters Lake Mweru and set up residence there.

Johnston was concerned that Crawshay had left the Rhodesia station hastily, and asked Cecil Rhodes to fund a special tour of the area by his second in command to assess the situation there.

1890-1 Crawshay opened the First known British colonial post and left the service of British central Africa and abandoned Rhodesia ( PUTA ) station as it was later named.

Herbert Crawshay Bailey, fourth son of the first Baron.

* Crawshay, Richard.

The chancel was restored in 1877 by Crawshay Bailey esq., son of the above, and since, deceased.

Llanfoist was home to the famed, or infamous, ironmaster, Crawshay Bailey.

His only son and heir, Crawshay Bailey II ( born 1821 ), inherited his estate.

He was supported in this venture by Francis Crawshay, a member of the important Crawshay ironworkers family, but did not gain enough sponsors to allow the project to go ahead.

** Laelia dawsonii ( J. Anderson ) Crawshay

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The company started an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary with Short Brothers, called Short and Harland Limited in 1936.

In 1974, Abitibi purchased a controlling interest in the Price Brothers & Company Limited which had extensive operations in the Province of Quebec and whose vast forestry business dated back to the William Price Company established in Quebec City in 1820.

Natarajan worked as a journalist for the weekly magazine Dharmika Hindu ( run by T. K. Jagannathacharya ) and also for erstwhile Volkart Brothers ( now Voltas Limited ) for some time.

In the meantime, in 1947, Short Brothers ( Rochester and Bedford ) Ltd. had merged with Short and Harland Limited to become Short Brothers and Harland Limited, with Oswald Short remaining as Life President.

HUL was formed in 1933 as Lever Brothers India Limited and came into being in 1956 as Hindustan Lever Limited through a merger of Lever Brothers, Hindustan Vanaspati Mfg.

During this period, she joined three film production companies: Great Wall Film Production Limited ( 1953 – 1958 ), The Shaw Brothers ( Hong Kong ) Limited ( 1958 – 1964 ), and Motion Picture and General Investments Limited ( 1964 – 1968 ).

The films she played for The Shaw Brothers ( Hong Kong ) Limited were as follow:

In Mandarin production, Shaw Brothers and Motion Picture and General Investments Limited ( MP & GI, later renamed Cathay ) were the top studios by the 1960s, and bitter rivals.

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In 1961, Price Brothers and Company Limited acquired a large amount of A. N. D.

In 1934, Mars Limited, a division of the large American confectionery company that had been based in Slough since 1932, acquired Chappel Brothers in Manchester.

Over the next half-century, Bass maintained its dominance in the UK market by the acquisition of other brewers such as Birmingham-based Mitchells & Butlers ( 1961 ), London brewer Charringtons ( 1967 ), Sheffield brewer William Stones Ltd ( 1968 ) and Grimsby-based Hewitt Brothers Limited ( 1969 ) ( with the overall company being known as Bass, Mitchells and Butlers or Bass Charrington at various times ).

Henry Neil Mallon ( 1895 – 1983 ) was Chairman of the Board, President and Director 29 -, Dresser Industries ( Cleveland, OH ) ( now Halliburton ), President 31 -, Dresser Manufacturing Limited ( Toronto, Canada ); Chairman of the Board, Director, Bryant Heater Company ( Cleveland, Ohio ); Factory Manager, General Manager, Director 20-29, US Can Company ( Cincinnati, Ohio ); 19-20 w / Continental Can Company ( Chicago, Illinois ); Director, Bovaud & Seyfang Manufacturing Company ( Bradford, Pennsylvania ), Clark Brothers Inc ( Olean, New York ), Day & Night Manufacturing Company ( Monrovia, California ), International Derrick & Equipment Company ( Columbus, Ohio ), Kobe, Inc ( Huntington Park, California ), Pacific Pumps, Inc ( CA ), Roots-Connersville Blower Corporation ( Connersville, Indiana ), Security Engineering Company ( Whittier, California ), Stacey Brothers, Gus Construction Company ( Cincinnati, Ohio ), Pharis Tire & Rubber Company ( Newark, Ohio ), Petrolite Corporation ( St. Louis, Missouri ), Magazines of Industry ( New York, New York ), Hydrocarbon Research Inc ( New York, New York ), Carthage Hydrocol Corporation ( New York, New York ).

More substantial hoarding was erected around the site and demolition firm Connell Brothers Limited began removing the spikes with oxyacetylene cutting equipment.