Thomas Rawlinson (industrialist)

Thomas Rawlinson was an 18th-century English industrialist who some sources have claimed was the inventor of the modern kilt. He was the managing partner in the Invergarry ironworks and rebuilt Invergarry Castle which had been burned down by Col. Clayton following the Jacobite rebellion.

Born in 1669, Thomas Rawlinson was the son of Thomas Rawlinson of Greythwaite. The family were Quaker ironmasters, his father and brother being partners in the Backbarrow Company which successfully developed charcoal blast furnaces at Backbarrow and Leighton. He died in 1737 shortly after the closure of Invergarry furnace

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