Abraham Darby III

He was the third man of that name in several generations of an English Quaker family that played a pivotal role in the Industrial Revolution.

[1] Abraham Darby was born in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, in 1750, the eldest son of Abraham Darby the Younger (1711–1763) by his second wife, Abiah Maude,[1] and educated at a school in Worcester kept by a Quaker named James Fell.

In 1776 Darby married Rebecca Smith of Doncaster, and they had seven children, of whom four survived to adulthood.

He died in Madeley aged only 39 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground in Coalbrookdale.

A secondary school in Telford, UK, is named after Abraham Darby III.