Anderston Foundry

The article in the Quarterly Journal was dated from Glasgow, 14 February 1822 and signed H. H. Jun . Other clues as to the identity of its author include his statement that the indicator was used in our works and was made from a description provided by Mr. Field of London . It was also observed that the instruments were now made by Mr. Hutton of the Anderston Foundry . On the strength of this information, Dickinson and Jenkins believed that H. H. Jun was probably Mr Hutton or his son. However, it seems much more likely that the mysterious author was in fact Henry Houldsworth Jr (1797-1867). 

The Houldsworth family had founded cotton-spinning companies in Glasgow and Manchester, and the Glasgow branch established the Anderston Foundry. Henry Jr became a partner sometime in the 1820s in the Manchester... 

---

See also in sourсe #XX -- [ ]

---