Andrew Yarranton
Andrew Yarranton (* 1616 in Astley near Stourport-on-Severn , † 1684 ) was an English entrepreneur .
Life
Yarranton came from a Yeoman family. In 1632 he began an apprenticeship with a linen dealer in Worcester . After a few years he left Worcester and lived as a farmer .
During the English Civil War , Yarranton served in the Parliamentary Army and made it up to captain . In 1646 he became a member of the Worcester County Committee that tried the royalists. After the war he used the outstanding wages to speculate in ruined estates belonging to the king and the royalists .
Together with other officers, Yarranton founded an ironworks with a blast furnace in Astley to smelt iron with iron ore from the Forest of Dean , ashes from Worcester and charcoal from the surrounding area . After the Stuart Restoration , Yarranton was arrested several times.
In 1651 Yarranton made a proposal to make navigable the Dick Brook , a tributary of the Severn, to connect with his ironworks at Astley. He made a similar proposal in 1655 to make the river Salwarpe navigable from the Severn to Droitwich , which failed due to a lack of finances (the Droitwich Canal was only built a century later ). The making of the Avon navigable , in which Yarranton was involved, was more successful .
In 1667, Yarranton and Ambrose Crowley traveled to Saxony on behalf of local investors to learn about tinplate production , which has been in operation there since 1536 . After their return, with the help of hired Saxon workers, the first attempts to manufacture tinplate were carried out, including sheet rolling , which was not yet part of the process in Saxony. The success prompted the two investors Philip Foley and Joshua Newborough to set up a corresponding plant in Wolverley on the River Stour.
According to John Aubrey , Yarranton died "by being beaten and thrown into a water trough".
Works
- Andrew Yarranton: England's improvement by sea and land . T. Parkhurst, London 1698, 242 pp.
literature
- Andrew Yarranton by Samuel Smiles (accessed January 27, 2016).
- AW Skempton, et al. (Ed.): Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, Volume 1, 1500-1830 . Thomas Telford on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers , London 2002, 897 pp., ISBN 0-7277-2939-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edward Inett: What's in a name? . Rock and District News 2010, pp. 25-28. ISBN 978-0-9543333-1-7 .
- ↑ Edward Inett: What's in a name? . Rock and District News 2010, p. 32. ISBN 978-0-9543333-1-7 .
- ↑ Chris Upton: Andrew Yarranton the forgotten visionary . Birmingham Post August 17, 2011 (accessed January 27, 2016).
- ↑ Antek Schwarz: Stahl writes history . steel and iron 136 (2016) No. 1, p. 84.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yarranton, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1616 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Astley at Stourport-on-Severn |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1684 |