Who
was He?
Inventor of the first practical method of mechanical
spinning of fibres by using rollers.
Date and Place
of Birth:
23rd December 1732, Preston, Lancashire, England.
Family Background:
The
youngest of thirteen children born to working,
but not poor, parents.
Education:
Apprenticed to a barber.
Chronology:
1768: Left Preston
for Nottingham and there took out the first Patent
on his spinning machine with John Smalley.
Marriage:
1. 1755 to Patience Holt.
2. 1761 to Margaret Biggens.
Places of Interest:
Date and Place
of Death:
3rd August 1792, Cromford, Derbyshire,
England.
Age at Death:
59.
Site of Grave:
St. Mary’s Church, Cromford, Derbyshire, England.
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