death_place birth_place discipline spouse article_title significant_projects name
shrewsbury , shropshire , england waters upton , shropshire , england ironmaster structural engineer miss brayne william hazledine
 chirk aqueduct menai bridge william hazledine
william hazledine

william hazledine -lrb- 1763 , waters upton , shropshire -- 26 october 1840 , shrewsbury , shropshire -rrb- was a pioneering english ironmaster whose talent for casting structural ironwork helped to realise the designs of engineers such as thomas telford and architects including henry goodridge and charles bage .
hazledine 's expertise in manufacturing and testing large iron castings was critical to the success of these pioneering projects .
hazledine grew up in a rural setting and was trained as a millwright .
through a family connection , he took a senior position in a local forge and later set up in business with a partner .
after that partnership was dissolved , hazledine set up a number of foundries supplying large structural castings , notably at coleham , shrewsbury , and plas kynaston , -lrb- cefn mawr -rrb- .
in their time , these were among the most important centres of iron-bridge building expertise in britain .
some of his work was for projects by thomas telford , also a friend .
he served as mayor of shrewsbury for 1835 -- 36 .
three brothers of william hazledine were the founders in about 1792 of hazledine and company , an ironworks in bridgnorth , shropshire .
