Jabez Carter Hornblower
Jabez Carter Hornblower (21 May 1744 – 14 July 1814) was an English pioneer of steam power, and the son of Jonathan Hornblower.
Jabez Carter Hornblower was born in Broseley, Shropshire, England on 21 May 1744 and was the eldest child of steam engineer Jonathan and Ann Carter Hornblower.
He gained his engineering skills working for his father building Newcomen steam engines in Cornwall.
He later worked for Boulton and Watt building the new Watt steam engines designed and patented by James Watt.
By 1790, he had set up a business in London with financial backing from well-to-do currier John Maberly, where he designed a new steam engine based on the patented designs of Isaac Mainwaring.
However, in 1796, Hornblower and Maberly were sued by Boulton and Watt, who claimed one of Watt's patents – concerning the condenser, had been infringed.
After a long trial, judgement in 1799 was in favour of Boulton and Watt and brought about the collapse of Hornblower and Maberly's business.
In 1803, Hornblower was imprisoned in the King's Bench debtors prison but on his release in 1805 he managed to secure some work in mainland Europe building engines until his return to England in 1813.
He died on 11 July 1814 and was buried in the Bunhill Fields burial ground in London.
He had married twice, once in Cornwall to Mary John, with whom he had four children and, on her death, to Ann Hanbury of Bridgnorth, Shropshire with whom he had another four children.
Adam Boulton
Thomas Adam Babington Boulton( born 15 February 1959) is a British journalist and broadcaster who is currently the Editor- at- large of Sky News, and presenter of" All Out Politics& Week In Review".
He is also the former political editor of Sky News.
He is based at Sky News' Westminster studios in Central London.
He was previously the political editor of TV -am, an ITV early- morning broadcasting franchise holder.
He held the post of Sky's Political Editor since being asked to establish its politics team for the launch of the channel in 1989.
He is the former presenter of Sky News'" Sunday Live with Adam Boulton", and presented a regular weekday news and political programme on Sky News, entitled" Boulton and Co" from 2011 to 2014.
Francis Spellman
Francis Joseph Spellman( May 4, 1889 – December 2, 1967) was an American bishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church.
From 1939 until his death in 1967, he served as the sixth Archbishop of New York; he had previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston from 1932 through 1939.
He was named a cardinal in 1946.
Conrad Heinrich Küchler
Conrad Heinrich Küchler( c. 1740 – 1810) was a German engraver who from 1793 until his death worked as a designer of coinage and medals for the manufacturer and mint owner Matthew Boulton.
D'Arcy Boulton (Ontario politician)
D'Arcy Boulton( March 29, 1825 – February 16, 1875) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Orangeman.
He was the son of James Boulton and the grandson of G. D' Arcy Boulton.
Lord Arthur Clinton
Lord Arthur Pelham- Clinton( 23 June 1840 – 18 June 1870), known as Lord Arthur Clinton, was an English aristocrat and Liberal Party politician.
A member of parliament( MP) for three years, he was notorious for involvement in the homosexual scandal and trial of Boulton and Park.
John Fothergill (merchant)
John Fothergill( 1730 – 1782) was a merchant from Birmingham, England.
Fothergill was the manufacturer Matthew Boulton's business partner between 1762 and 1782.
Fothergill's expertise was mainly in trading- he had served an apprenticeship in Königsberg, spoke French and German, and had travelled widely in Europe as an agent for other manufacturers.
Together they opened the Soho Manufactory, one of the earliest factories in Birmingham.
However, Boulton and Fothergill's partnership never made a profit, and the relationship ended in acrimony.
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton (3 September 1728 – 17 August 1809) was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt.
In the final quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills.
Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment.
Born in Birmingham, he was the son of a Birmingham manufacturer of small metal products who died when Boulton was 31.
By then Boulton had managed the business for several years, and thereafter expanded it considerably, consolidating operations at the Soho Manufactory, built by him near Birmingham.
At Soho, he adopted the latest techniques, branching into silver plate, ormolu and other decorative arts.
He became associated with James Watt when Watt's business partner, John Roebuck, was unable to pay a debt to Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's share of Watt's patent as settlement.
He then successfully lobbied Parliament to extend Watt's patent for an additional 17 years, enabling the firm to market Watt's steam engine.
The firm installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines in Britain and abroad, initially in mines and then in factories.
Boulton was a key member of the Lunar Society, a group of Birmingham-area men prominent in the arts, sciences, and theology.
Members included Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph Priestley.
The Society met each month near the full moon.
Members of the Society have been given credit for developing concepts and techniques in science, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport that laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution.
Boulton founded the Soho Mint, to which he soon adapted steam power.
He sought to improve the poor state of Britain's coinage, and after several years of effort obtained a contract in 1797 to produce the first British copper coinage in a quarter century.
His "cartwheel" pieces were well-designed and difficult to counterfeit, and included the first striking of the large copper British penny, which continued to be coined until decimalisation in 1971.
He retired in 1800, though continuing to run his mint, and died in 1809.
His image appears alongside his partner James Watt on the Bank of England's current Series F £50 note.
Matthew Robinson Boulton
Matthew Robinson Boulton (8 August 1770 – 16 May 1842) was an English manufacturer, a pioneer of management, the son of Matthew Boulton and the father of Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, who first patented the aileron.
He was responsible with James Watt Jr. for the management of the Soho Foundry.
Matthew Robinson Boulton was mainly involved in the initial planning of the foundry, with James Watt Jr. being more concerned with daily management and organisation.
Joseph Huddart
Joseph Huddart FRS( 1741–1816) was a British hydrographer, engineer and inventor.
He surveyed harbours and coasts but made a fortune from improving the design and manufacture of rope.
He was highly regarded in his time, and his likeness featured in an engraving of distinguished men of science.
Huddart was chosen to feature in the central group of the picture with M. I. Brunel, James Watt, Matthew Boulton and Thomas Telford.

Question: Did Matthew Boulton and Francis Spellman share the same nationality?
Answer: no