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William Crawshay II (27 March 1788 – 4 August 1867) was the son of William Crawshay I, the owner of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in
''Jones, Sir Horace (1819–1887)''
rev. Valerie Scott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 (Subscription required) who much later also designed London's Tower Bridge. His son,
Welsh Biography Online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crawshay, William II 1788 births 1867 deaths British ironmasters People from Caversham, Reading Welsh industrialists 19th-century Welsh businesspeople
William Crawshay II (27 March 1788 – 4 August 1867) was the son of William Crawshay I, the owner of Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil
Merthyr Tydfil (; cy, Merthyr Tudful ) is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydf ...
, Wales.
William Crawshay II became an ironmaster when he took over the business from his father. He was known as the 'Iron King'. He was responsible for the building of Cyfarthfa Castle (now a museum) in the 1820s. In 1847, he retired to Caversham Park
Caversham Park is a Victorian-era stately home with parkland in the suburb of Caversham on the outskirts of Reading, England. Historically located in Oxfordshire, it became part of Berkshire with boundary changes in 1911. Caversham Park was ...
in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...
(now Berkshire
Berkshire ( ; in the 17th century sometimes spelt phonetically as Barkeshire; abbreviated Berks.) is a historic county in South East England. One of the home counties, Berkshire was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II as the Royal County of Berk ...
), where he died 20 years later. After a fire in 1850, Caversham Park was rebuilt by Crawshay to a design by Horace JonesG. C. Boase
George Clement Boase (20 October 1829, in Penzance – 1 October 1897, in Lewisham) was an English bibliographer and antiquary.
Biography
Boase's father was a banker, and Boase himself took up banking in Cornwall and London as a young man from 18 ...
''Jones, Sir Horace (1819–1887)''
rev. Valerie Scott, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 (Subscription required) who much later also designed London's Tower Bridge. His son,
Robert Thompson Crawshay
Robert Thompson Crawshay (3 March 1817 – 10 May 1879) was a British ironmaster.
Life
Crawshay, youngest son of William Crawshay by his second wife, Bella Thompson, was born at Cyfarthfa Ironworks. He was educated at Dr. Prichard's school a ...
, carried on the South Wales business.
References
Welsh Biography Online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crawshay, William II 1788 births 1867 deaths British ironmasters People from Caversham, Reading Welsh industrialists 19th-century Welsh businesspeople