Charles Gascoigne

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Charles Gascoigne
Born1737 (1737)
Died1 August 1806(1806-08-01) (aged 68–69)
OccupationBusinessman
Parent(s)Captain Woodroffe Gascoigne
Grizel Elphinstone
RelativesCharles Elphinstone, 9th Lord Elphinstone (maternal grandfather)

Charles Gascoigne (1737–1806) was a British industrialist at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Gascoigne was an architect, mechanic, inventor, businessman and industrialist. He spent the final twenty years of his life in the Russian Empire, gaining fame as an engineer-inventor, entrepreneur, and specialist in production.

Gascoigne is regarded as the founder of the industrial city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, in 1795.

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