William Cockerill

William Cockerill
Born	1759 Lancashire, Great Britain
Died	1832 (aged 73) Aachen, Prussia
Citizenship	British after 1810 French (Belgian)
Occupation(s)	Inventor, machine maker, industrialist

William Cockerill (1759–1832) was a British inventor, entrepreneur, and industrialist. Designing and producing machines for new industrial textile manufacturing, he is best known for having established a major manufacturing firm in what is now Liège Province of modern-day Belgium. He is widely considered to have been instrumental in spreading the Industrial Revolution in Continental Europe.