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FIRTH, MARK (1819-1880)

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FIRTH, See also:MARK (1819-1880) , See also:English See also:steel manufacturer and philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Sheffield on the 25th of See also:April 1819, the son of a steel smelter. At the See also:age of fourteen Mark, with his See also:brother, See also:left school to join their See also:father in the foundry where he was employed, and ten years later the three together started a six-hole See also:furnace of their own. The venture proved successful, and besides an extensive See also:home business, they soon established a large See also:American connexion. Their huge See also:Norfolk See also:works were erected at Sheffield in 1849, and still greater were afterwards acquired at See also:Whittington in See also:Derbyshire and others at See also:Clay Wheels near Wadsley. The manufacture of steel blocks for See also:ordnance was the See also:principal feature of their business, and they produced also shot and heavy forgings. They also installed a plant for the See also:production of steel cores for heavy guns, and for some See also:time they supplied nearly all the See also:metal used for See also:gun making by the See also:British See also:government and a large proportion of that used by the See also:French. On the See also:death of his father in 1848 Mark Firth became the See also:head of the See also:firm. In 1869 he built and endowed " Mark Firth's Almshouses " at Ranmoor near Sheffield, and in 1895, when See also:mayor, he presented to his native See also:place a See also:freehold See also:park of See also:thirty-six acres. He founded and endowed Firth.See also:College, for lectures and classes in connexion with the See also:extension of university See also:education, which was opened in 18i9. He died on the 28th of See also:November 188o, and was accorded a public funeral.

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