Adolf Ulric Grill

Adolf (Adolph) Ulric Grill (19 March 17521 October 1797) was a Swedish ironworks owner and scientific collector of animals and fossils for his cabinet of curiosities at Söderfors Manor, Tierp Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Family One of the notable Grill family, Adolf Ulric was the son of Claes Grill and Anna Johanna Grill. He married his cousin, Anna Johanna (1753–1809) in Stockholm on 7June 1778, they had one son who died at an early age. At the time of his marriage, he lived in the Grill House in Stockholm. He and his wife moved to Söderfors when he inherited the ironworks and manor from his father in 1767.

Ironworks owner Grill was a dedicated and hands-on owner of the ironworks at Söderfors, who supervised the operation and managed the books. Initially the factory's main products were anchors but with additions and improvements to the facilities he expanded into the production of wrought and pig iron amongst other goods. The products from the ironworks were of good quality and production peaked in 1780.

Collector In the Anchor-Forge at Söderfors by Pehr Hilleström, depicting Grill on the right. Like his father, he was a natural scientist and he collected mounted animals, fossils, minerals and plants in a museum, started in 1783, at the Söderfors manor. The first specimens were collected in the vicinity of Söderfors. After two years Grill moved on to the birds of the archipelago. He was able to use his connections through his relatives in the trading houses, to send for specimens from Greenland and China. The collections were also increased during his travels and on a journey to England in 1788, he traded a mounted moose for 60 rare birds. was named after him.

Builder

Grill paid for the building of a church in Söderfors that was inaugurated on 30September 1792.

Grill was known as a music lover and amateur composer. Wherever he lived, he organized well attended concert nights, with musicians invited from Stockholm.