The grave of William Caddell, Larbert Churchyard

William Archibald Cadell of

Cockenzie Cockenzie and Port Seton ( sco, Cockennie ; gd, Cùil Choinnich, meaning "cove of Kenneth") is a unified town in East Lothian, Scotland. It is on the coast of the Firth of Forth, four miles east of Musselburgh. The burgh of Cockenzie was created ...

(1708–1777) was a Scottish industrialist, one of the pioneers of the industrial revolution on the

Firth of Forth The Firth of Forth () is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south. Name ''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meani ...

. He was a member of a merchant family involved in the import of iron from Russia and Sweden. He and his son, also William (baptised 1737, died 1819R. H. Campbell, 'Garbett, Samuel (1717–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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Samuel Garbett Samuel Garbett (1717– 5 December 1803R. H. Campbell, ‘Garbett, Samuel (1717–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 29 July 2012/ref>) was a prominent citizen of Birmingham England, during t ...

and

John Roebuck John Roebuck of Kinneil FRS FRSE (1718 – 17 July 1794) was an English inventor and industrialist who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulphuric ac ...

, of the

Carron Iron Works The Carron Company was an ironworks established in 1759 on the banks of the River Carron near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, Scotland. After initial problems, the company was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom. Th ...

, in 1759, originally known as Roebuck, Garbett & Cadells. His daughter Christian Cadell married Thomas Edington (1742-1811) who became joint proprietor at Cramond Iron Works before establishing his own independent company in

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

in 1797: Thomas Edington & Son. Their grandson was the geologist

Thomas Edington Thomas Edington FRSE FGS MWS (1814–1859) was a Scottish foundry owner and important amateur geologist and mineralogist. He was proprietor of Thomas Edington & Son. Life He was born in Glasgow the eldest son of Thomas Edington of Glasgow (1783 ...

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(1814-1859).Graces Guide: Thomas Edington & Son His great-great-grandson was the geologist

Henry Cadell Dr Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, DL FRSE LLD (1860 – 10 April 1934) was a Scottish geologist and geographer, noted for his work on the Moine Thrust, the oil-shale fields of West Lothian, and his experiments in mountain building published i ...

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1708 births 1777 deaths People from Cockenzie and Port Seton People associated with Falkirk (council area) Scottish businesspeople 18th-century Scottish people People of the Industrial Revolution {{Scotland-business-bio-stub