Cabot, Godfrey Lowell (1861–1962)

US industrialist and philanthropist. He experimented with carbon black; starting his first carbon works in West Virginia in 1899, he built up the Cabot Corporation to become the leading producer of that product within the USA, and he prospered through its interests in minerals, energy sources, and industrial research.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied chemistry. He traveled widely and was himself a pilot. He directed Boston's puritanical Watch and Ward Society (1920s and 1930s), which blocked certain books, plays, and motion pictures from the public. Among his many philanthropies were large gifts to Harvard and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.