Benjamin Flounders

Benjamin Flounders (17 June 1768 – 19 April 1846) was a prominent English Quaker with business interests in new industries and developments at the time of the mid-Industrial Revolution. These included the Stockton and Darlington Railway, of which he was a founding Director, and canals in his native North-East England. He operated his own family businesses successfully, with large interests in timber for shipbuilding during the Napoleonic Wars. He also owned two linen mills and large estates in Egham, Surrey and Glasgow.

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