Matthew Robinson Boulton (8 August 1770 – 16 May 1842) was an English

manufacturer Manufacturing is the creation or Production (economics), production of goods with the help of equipment, Work (human activity), labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary se ...

, a pioneer of management, the son of

Matthew Boulton Matthew Boulton ( ; 3 September 172817 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith. He was a business partner of the Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century, the par ...

and the father of

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820 – 30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. ...

, who first patented the

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. He was responsible with James Watt Jr. for the management of the Soho Foundry. As a boy, Boulton was sent by his father to France to absorb French culture and technical knowledge and, later, to pass along information on political developments there. After returning to England, he was mainly involved in the initial planning of the foundry, with James Watt Jr. being more concerned with daily management and organisation.

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