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EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF HUNTLY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

HUNTLY  . This Scottish title, in the Gordon
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family,
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dates as to the earldom from 1449, HUNTLY-HUNYADI, JANOS 955 of the steel then available for his products seriously hampered him, he began to experiment in steel-manufacture, first at
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Doncaster, and subsequently at
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Handsworth, near Sheffield, whither he removed in 1740 to secure cheaper fuel for his furnaces . After several years' trials he at last produced a satisfactory cast steel, purer and harder than any steel then in use . The Sheffield cutlery manufacturers, however, refused to buy it, on the ground that it was too hard, and for a long time Huntsman exported his whole output to France . The growing competition of imported French cutlery made from Huntsman's cast-steel at length alarmed the Sheffield cutlers, who, after vainly endeavouring to get the exportation of the steel prohibited by the
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British government, were compelled in self-defence to use it . Huntsman had not patented his
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process, and its secret was discovered by a Sheffield ironfounder, who, according to a popular story, obtained ad-
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mission to Huntsman's
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works in the disguise of a
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tramp . Benjamin Huntsman died in 1776, his business being subsequently greatly
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developed by his son, William Huntsman (1733-1809) . See Smiles,
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Industrial Biography (1879) .

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