People

People with enough on record for a page of their own, and the mines they are tied to. Anyone the sources only mention stays in the text of the record that names them.

27 people, by surname.

Name	Mines
William Argall Mine captain from Breage who founded the Tregonning Hill china clay and brick works in 1871 and controlled the hill's clay setts by 1890.	Tregonning Hill China Clay Pits, Wheal Grey Mine
Robert Bald (1776–1861) Scottish surveyor, civil and mining engineer and antiquarian, born at Culross on 4 December 1776 and died in Clackmannanshire on 28 December 1861.	Devon Colliery, Collyland Colliery
Thomas Bonsall Mine manager from Bakewell who ran Cwmsymlog for Chauncey Townsend from 1751 and managed it until its closure in 1793, notorious for taking only the richer ore and…	Cwmsymlog Mine
Thomas Bushell Myddelton's agent and successor at Cwmsymlog, who drove the Great Level drainage adit there and took over the mine in 1636.	Cwmsymlog Mine, Goginan Mine
William Moore Campbell (1835–1906) Managing director of the Sutton Heath and Lea Green Collieries Company from its registration in 1890, appointed at £500 a year plus five per cent of net profits.	Lea Green Colliery
William Cookworthy Plymouth chemist who discovered china clay on Tregonning Hill in the 1740s and made the first hard-paste porcelain in Britain in 1768.	Tregonning Hill China Clay Pits
Norman Cornish (1919–2014) County Durham miner and painter who worked underground for 33 years, from 1933 to 1966, while building a national reputation for his paintings of Spennymoor mining life.	Dean and Chapter Colliery, Mainsforth Colliery
William Greenwell Victorian clergyman and antiquarian whose excavation of a deep shaft at Grime's Graves in 1868-70 proved it a Neolithic flint mine, the first recognised in Britain.	Grime's Graves
George Insole A Cardiff coal agent and shipper who, with the trader Richard Biddle, arranged the first shipment of Waun Wyllt steam coal to London in November 1830 and afterwards the…	Waunwyllt Level
Patience Kershaw Hurrier at Booth Town Pit, Halifax, whose evidence to the Children's Employment Commission, taken in 1841 when she was seventeen, is among the best known in its 1842…	Booth Town Pit
Ernest le Pelley Seigneur of Sark from 1839, succeeding his drowned brother Pierre le Pelley III, until 1849.	Sark's Hope Silver Mine
Pierre le Pelley III (1799–1839) Fifteenth Seigneur of Sark, from 1820 until his death in 1839.	Sark's Hope Silver Mine
Sir Hugh Myddelton (d. 1631) Entrepreneur who leased the Cardiganshire silver-lead mines of Cwmsymlog and Darren from the Society of Mines Royal in 1617 and was said to take great profits in silver…	Cwmsymlog Mine, Great Darren Mine, Goginan Mine
Hugh Lee Pattinson Tyneside lead manufacturer and chemist, remembered for the cupellation process for desilvering lead that carries his name.	Dry Gill Mine
Fanny Prescott Radley The widow of the St Helens colliery owner James Radley, who ran Lea Green Colliery herself for a few years after his death in 1885 and then created the Sutton Heath and…	Lea Green Colliery
James Radley (1810–1885) A St Helens colliery owner who sank the first shafts at Lea Green in the early 1870s and also held Nutgrove, Thatto Heath and Sutton Heath collieries.	Lea Green Colliery
R. W. Raine Operator of Coldberry lead mine in Teesdale from 1911 to 1920.	Coldberry Mine
Henry William Schneider (1817–1887) Iron dealer and industrialist who leased the Park property in 1840 and found the Park haematite deposit in 1850; with Robert Hannay he went on to build blast furnaces at…	Park Mines, Whitriggs Mine
Allen Searell (d. 1865) Allen Searell (also spelled Alan) was a Devon man who came to Beddgelert in 1841 to develop mining and managed a string of North Wales ventures.	Sygun Copper Mine, Hafod y Llan Slate Quarry, Cwmorthin Slate Mine
James Seccombe Mine captain who bought the Phoenix sett near Minions in 1842 and formed the company that worked it as Wheal Phoenix.	Phoenix United Mine
Jock Stein (1922–1985) Celtic and Scotland football manager, the first British manager to win the European Cup (1967), who worked as a coal miner at Bothwell Castle Colliery from 1937 until he…	Bothwell Castle Colliery
Lucy Thomas (1781–1847) Born Lucy Williams and baptised at Llansamlet on 11 March 1781, she married Robert Thomas in 1802 and took over the running of his Waun Wyllt level after his death in…	Waunwyllt Level
Robert Thomas (d. 1833) A coal contractor from west Wales who moved to Merthyr Tydfil and took an annual tenancy from the Earl of Plymouth for a small level at Waun Wyllt near Abercanaid.	Waunwyllt Level
Joseph Treffry (1782–1850) Engineer and industrialist, born Joseph Austen in Plymouth, who took the Treffry name on inheriting Place, Fowey, and controlled the Fowey Consols copper mines until his…	Fowey Consols, Par Consols
Arthur Waters Mine agent in the Hope Valley, Shropshire, in the 1870s: agent for the West Tankerville Mining Company at East Roman Gravels from 1870, where he modified the engine…	East Roman Gravels Mine, Roman Gravels Mine
William West (1801–1879) Cornish mining engineer (1801–1879), born at Dolcoath: engineer at Great Wheal Towan in the late 1820s, where he lagged an engine's boilers with sawdust, then at Fowey…	Phoenix United Mine, Wheal Towan
Joseph Whitworth Manchester engineer and machine-tool maker, who advocated the standard and uniform screw thread that carries his name and built a measuring device accurate to a…	Stancliffe Quarry