iron-master

Abraham Darby (c. 1678-1717) is regarded as the English iron-master because he was the first to use coke successfully in the smelting of iron, revolutionizing the production of steel.

Darby, Abraham 2009

It was Ralph Hogge, iron-master, who in the year 1543 made the first English metal cannon.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

BAIRD, JAMES (1802-1876) Scottish iron-master, was born at Kirkwood,

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

In this section, as in the preceding one on the chemistry of iron, much space is misapplied to the discussion of questions of structural geology, of opposing theories of the formation of veins, and other scientific problems with which the iron-master is not concerned, and which he cannot be expected to understand, much less to solve.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

The iron-master has married a second wife, a heartless vindictive woman, and former mistress of the marquis.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

England in middle life he married a lively widow, went into business as an iron-master near Merthyr Tydvil, and distinguished himself by introducing platinum into Europe, having first met with the semi-metal in Jamaica, whither it had been brought from Carthagena in New Spain.

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

It afforded him no more pleasure, one could surmise, to impose a false Rembrandt at six figures upon a wavering iron-master, or, indeed to unload an historic but rather worthless collection upon Morrison himself.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

It was planted by an English iron-master by the name of McCreary.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914

And he stood still, the dishtowel in his hand, thinking of that wealthy iron-master, whose epitaph is said to read: Here lies a man who knew how to enlist in his service better men than himself.

Autumn Robert Nathan 1939

William H. Roberts had begun his career in the service of the great iron-master, whose deadly rival he had afterwards become; and now he lived but to dispute that rival's claims to glory.

The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923