Godfrey Box

Godfrey Box was a 16th-century British entrepreneur. An immigrant from the Low Countries, he built England's first iron-splitting mill on the River Darent at Dartford Creek in Dartford, Kent, some time between 1590 and 1595.^[1]

References

1. "Godfrey Box And The Splitting Mill". Notes and Queries. 3 (56). England: Oxford Publishing: 48. 21 January 1899. In Howes 1631 edition of Stow's Annals