Cockerill, JOHN, manufacturer, born in Lancashire in 1790, was the son of William Cockerill (1759-1832), an inventor and machinist who in 1807 settled at Liège in Belgium. John, with an elder brother, succeeded to their father's business in 1812, established a woollen factory in Berlin in 1815, and in 1817 founded the famous works at Seraing (q.v.). He died at Warsaw, 19th June 1840; in 1867 his remains were brought to Seraing, where his statue was erected in 1871.
Cockerill, JOHN
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 321
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