People from Merthyr - Richard Crawshay?

I assume that the people who edited his wiki page must be relatives. Isn't he buried underneath a huge slab of stone, so he will never return in any form?.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thompson_Crawshay

in 1867 he became the sole manager, and not only considerably improved the works, but opened out the coal mines to a greater and more profitable issue.

At this time there were upwards of five thousand men, women, and children employed at Cyfarthfa, all receiving good wages, and well looked after by their master.

He was averse to unions among masters or men, but assented, as a necessary sequence of the action of the men, to a combination among the masters. Unionism became active at Cyfarthfa at a time of falling prices; Crawshay called his men together and warned them of the consequences of persisting in their unreasonable demands; but as they would not yield the furnaces were one by one put out.

Crawshay would have reopened his works for the benefit of his people had it not been very apparent that under no circumstances could Cyfarthfa again have become a paying concern

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Who is writing that?. That is not written from a neutral position is it??.

He had that big slab of stone put over his grave because he feared people were going to dig up his body because of the way he had treated his workers and tenants all their lives. He was a cruel man who made money off the sweat of other mens brows and paid them peanuts.

had sex with the workers wives to keep their husbands in their jobs

God forgive him for what?

Interesting read...

http://therealtonylane1.blogspot.co.uk/ ... 16-20.html