William Archibald Cadell of Cockenzie (1708–1777) was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 industrialist, one of the pioneers of the industrial revolution on the Firth of Forth

Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south...

. He was a member of a merchant family involved in the import of iron from Russia and Sweden.

He was a founder of the Carron Iron Works, in 1759, originally known as Roebuck, Garbett & Cadells.

His great, great grandson was the geologist Henry Cadell

Henry Cadell

Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, FRSE 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 in 1888...

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