1. Charles Gascoigne was a British industrialist at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
19 Facts About Charles Gascoigne
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Charles Gascoigne spent the final twenty years of his life in the Russian Empire, gaining fame as an engineer-inventor, entrepreneur, and specialist in production.
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Charles Gascoigne's father was Captain Woodroffe Gascoigne, who was deployed in Scotland after the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
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Charles Gascoigne's mother was Grizel, eldest daughter of Charles Elphinstone, 9th Lord Elphinstone and his wife Elizabeth Primrose.
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Charles Gascoigne worked for the British East India Company and as a partner in "Coney and Charles Gascoigne", a firm of drysalters in London.
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Charles Gascoigne married Mary, the daughter of Samuel Garbett, at St Martin's, Birmingham, in 1759.
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When Charles Gascoigne joined the Carron Company only six years after it was founded, it was still suffering from problems with the quality of its iron.
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Charles Gascoigne became managing partner of the ironworks in 1769, taking over from William Cadell, Jr, the son of William Cadell, another founder of the works.
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Charles Gascoigne introduced many improvements in the company's techniques of production, and devoted considerable effort to increasing the quality of its work.
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Charles Gascoigne received a royal charter to incorporate as the Carron Company in 1773.
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The British government tried to prevent the company from supplying this cutting-edge military technology; nonetheless, Charles Gascoigne delivered the Russians' orders.
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Charles Gascoigne was accompanied by Charles Baird, Adam Armstrong, and Alexander Wilson.
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Charles Gascoigne was in financial trouble at the time, having been declared bankrupt.
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Charles Gascoigne was to remain in Russia for twenty years, where he became known as Karl Karlovich Gaskoin.
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Charles Gascoigne became a State Councillor and a Knight of Saint Vladimir, received the Order of St Anne, 1st and 2nd classes, received the rank of Councillor of State, and was head of all mines and foundries in Karelia, including the mines at Petrozavodsk.
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Charles Gascoigne improved many existing Russian iron foundries and built new ones, and advancing the Russian's cannon-manufacturing techniques.
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Charles Gascoigne established the first machine presses at the Saint Petersburg Mint, although the project was ultimately completed by Matthew Boulton.
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Charles Gascoigne married his second wife, Anastasia Jessie Guthrie, daughter of Dr Matthew Guthrie, in 1797, when she was only 15, and he was 59.
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Charles Gascoigne died in July 1806 in Kolpino near St Petersburg, and was buried in Petrozavodsk.