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John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman GCMG FRS[1] (7 September 1877 – 31 May 1941), was a British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.

John Cadman

Early life

Cadman was educated at Armstrong College, University of Durham, and received a first class Honours in Geology in 1899.[2]

Career

Cadman served as Inspector of Mines in Trinidad and Tobago in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time Trinidad and Tobago was a British Colony. As Inspector of Mines he was responsible for the commercialization of Trinidad's oil in 1907. In this effort Cadman was joined by Arthur "Beeby" Thompson who was an engineer with oilfield experience in Russia.[3][4]

Cadman later went on to teach petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in the UK. Cadman is credited with creating the course "Petroleum Engineering". He was director of the Petroleum Executive.

He was well known for his love of shellfish.

He was later Chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in the 1930s.[5] He expanded production fourfold and eventually joined a venture by Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch/Shell to stabilize petroleum prices.

Marriage and family

Cadman married Lilian Harrigan in 1907. The couple had four children, daughters Marguerite and Sybil, and sons John and Denys.

Honours

He was created CMG in 1916, KCMG in 1918 and GCMG in 1929. On 7 June 1937 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cadman, of Silverdale in the County of Stafford.[6]

In 1940 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[1][7]

On 17 May 2007 Silverdale Parish Council voted to name a new street "Cadman Close" in honour of Lord Cadman.

Coat of arms of John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman
Crest
A stork’s head holding in the beak a sprig of Columbine Proper.
Escutcheon
Azure three fleur-de-lis in pale between four pallets indented Argent.
Supporters
On the dexter side a stork and on the sinister side a peacock Argent beaked Gules each gorged with a collar Azure charged with a fleur-de-lis also Argent.
Motto
Semper Paratus[8]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Smith, F. E. (1941). "John Cadman, Baron Cadman. 1877–1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 915–926. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0042. S2CID 162211042.
  2. [2]
    "John Cadman, Lord Cadman of Silverdale". Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
  3. [3]
    South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce at www.stcic.org
  4. [4]
    Website of the South Trinidad Chamber of Industry and Commerce
  5. [5]
    "John Cadman". Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  6. [6]
    "No. 34408". The London Gazette. 15 June 1937. p. 3856.
  7. [7]
    "Library and archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 15 July 2011.[permanent dead link]
  8. [8]
    Burke's Peerage. 1959.
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