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Hugh Lee Pattinson

Tyneside lead manufacturer and chemist, inventor of the cupellation process for desilvering lead, who took the first recorded lease of Dry Gill Mine on the Caldbeck Fells in 1846 and drove the adit on the vein before giving the work up in the 1850s.

Mines operated

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Dry Gill Mine Cumbria 1846–1850

Record created: 23 September 2026 · Last researched: 23 September 2026

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