Henry William Schneider

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 Barrow in 1859.

In the archive

• Lessee · Park Mines (from 1840) — Took the lease of the Earl of Burlington's Park property in 1840 and sank the pit that found the deposit in 1850.
• Operator record · Schneider, Hannay and Co (from 1853) — Senior partner in the firm formed on 1 January 1853.. Mines: Park Mines (proprietor, from 1853)

Sources

1. Bennett Bank Landfill Site, Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment (2003), Oxford Archaeology North
2. Henry William Schneider, Grace's Guide to British Industrial History

Record created: 21 September 2026 · Last researched: 21 September 2026