Richard Fothergill (1758–1821) was an

ironmaster An ironmaster is the manager, and usually owner, of a forge or blast furnace for the processing of iron. It is a term mainly associated with the period of the Industrial Revolution, especially in Great Britain. The ironmaster was usually a larg ...

in South Wales and the founder of the Fothergill dynasty of ironmasters. His sons were Richard Fothergill II (1789–1851), Thomas Fothergill (1791–1858), and

Rowland Fothergill Rowland Fothergill (1794- 19 September 1871) was an ironmaster in South Wales, whose main industrial interests lay in the Aberdare district. He was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1850. He was the son of Richard Fothergill. Prior to acquiring prope ...

(1794–1871). His daughter, Ann, married in 1877 Sir Rose Lambert Price, bart. His grandson Richard Fothergill III (1822–1903) was an ironmaster and Liberal politician who sat in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

from 1868 to 1880.Mair, Robert Henry. (1870)
Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench. 1870.
' London: Dean & Son, p. 107.

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Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ...

1758 births 1821 deaths British ironmasters {{Wales-bio-stub