John Cockerill (industrialist)

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John Cockerill
Born	3 August 1790 Haslingden, Lancs, England
Died	9 June 1840 (1840-06-10) (aged 49) Warsaw, Congress Poland
Citizenship	British, later Belgian
Occupation	Industrialist

John Cockerill (3 August 1790 – 9 June 1840) was an English-born industrialist who became a prominent businessman in Belgium. Born at Haslingden, Lancashire, England, he was brought by his father (British entrepreneur William Cockerill) to the Liège region, where he continued the family tradition of building wool-processing machinery. He founded an ironworks named John Cockerill & Cie. (English: John Cockerill & Company).