Henry Dick Woodfall (1796 – April 13, 1869) was an English businessman. Together with

John Rice Crowe Sir John Rice Crowe (November 20, 1795 – January 10, 1877) was an English businessman and diplomat who spent much of his life in Norway. He was the British consul-general in Norway, residing in Christiania, from 1843. Together with Henry Dick ...

, he founded Alten Copper Works in Kåfjord,

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, later renamed the Kåfjord Copper Works. Henry Woodfall was born in Scotland in 1796, the son of the printer

George Woodfall George Woodfall (1767–1844) was an English printer. Life The son of Henry Sampson Woodfall, he was his father's partner in the printing business till December 1793, when the father retired. George Woodfall later moved to Angel Court, Snow Hill, ...

, whose business he inherited. After relocating to Norway, he had a relationship with a local woman, Ane Helene Johannesdotter Muotka, and their son Salamon Woodfall was born in 1831. As director of Alten Copper Works, Woodfall was skeptical of bringing labor from England because he believed that the work was better served by building up a permanent mining community with Norwegian workers. He was also concerned that the mining company should take care of the miners and their families, and together with Crowe he founded Kåfjord as a society with a number of welfare services for the growing local population. Woodfall died in

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in 1869. The various mines in Kåfjord were named after the stakeholders in the copper works, and one of the mines was called the Woodfall Mine. John Rice Crowe named one of his sons, Henry Woodfall Crowe, after his business partner.

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