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The Copper King: Thomas Williams of Llanidan (Landmark Collectors Library) (Hardcover)

by J.R. Harris (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Landmark Publishing Ltd (19 May 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843060922
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843060925
  • Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 18 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This is the story of Thomas Williams, one of the leading 18th-century industrialists, who established a Welsh monopoly on the world supply of copper metal.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The "Copper King" from the Isle of Anglesey, 2 Feb 2008
By Robert Williams "Publisher, Llyfrau Magma" (Isle of Anglesey, Wales / Ynys Môn, Cymru) - See all my reviews
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During the Industrial Revolution, Parys Mountain became the world's most important source of copper and Northern Anglesey enjoyed a thirty year boom. The copper-rich ore was carted down the mountain to be partially smelted in the furnaces of Porth Amlwch. The enriched ore was shipped from the little harbour to the growing industrial regions of the lower Swansea valley and the English northwest. This encouraged the development at Amlwch of a small shipbuilding and ship repair industry.
The market for Anglesey copper finally collapsed in the middle of the nineteenth century: the quality and quantity of the extracted ore had declined and the price of copper was being undercut by competition from abroad. Parys Mountain still contains minerals - not only copper but zinc, silver and lead too.

Thomas Williams (1737-1802) of Anglesey, born in Llansadwrn and with an estate at Llanidan, was a lawyer who became a prominent figure of the Industrial Revolution and a millionaire ... Britain's `Copper King'.

He led the reopening of copper workings on Parys Mountain and made Anglesey, briefly, the leading producer in the world. By the end of the eighteenth century Thomas Williams controlled half of all copper production in the British Isles and his open-cast mines were employing about 1,500 men, women and children. Unusually for a successful capitalist in that age, Williams was reckoned to be a straight dealer and fair employer, and was known locally as Twm Chwarae Teg (`Tom Fair Play').

This book is the second edition (2003) of Professor Harris's biography.

SEE ALSO John Rowlands's study of Anglesey's copper industry, Copper Mountain (A series of historic revisions for Anglesey)
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