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Category Archives: Industrialists

Home / Archive Category: Industrialists

Caleb Wright

Nov 30, 2020Daisy GraceIndustrialists, Politicians

Caleb Wright, factory owner and Liberal Member of Parliament who was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire

Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet

Jun 30, 2019Eric CorbettIndustrialists, Philanthropists, Politicians

A British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician who, with Ludwig Mond, created the chemical company Brunner Mond.

John Kemp Starley

May 4, 2019Eric CorbettIndustrialists, Inventors, Philanthropists

John Kemp Starley was an inventor of the safety bicycle and founder of what became known as the Rover car manufacturing company.

Frank Harris Fulford

Dec 27, 2018Georgie DarcyIndustrialists

Canadian-born entrepreneur, art collector and businessman

John Rylands

Nov 30, 2018Eric CorbettIndustrialists, Philanthropists

John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester’s first multi-millionaire.

John Holker

Aug 9, 2018Eric CorbettChemical engineering, Industrialists, Mills

John Holker (1719 – 27 April 1786) was a Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world’s first industrial espionage agents, born in Stretford, England, to blacksmith John Holker and his wife Alice.

Sir Alexander MacRobert

Aug 4, 2018Georgie DarcyIndustrialists

Self-made millionaire from Aberdeen

Edward Akroyd

Jul 27, 2018Daisy GraceIndustrialists, Philanthropists, Politicians

Edward Akroyd (1810–1887), industrialist, politician and philanthropist, was born at Brockholes near Halifax to Jonathan Akroyd (1782–1847) and his wife, Sarah Wright.

Marshall Stevens

Jun 25, 2018Eric CorbettIndustrialists

Marshall Stevens, born in 1852, was an English property developer whose work with Daniel Adamson and others led to the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, completed in 1894.

James Burton

Jun 16, 2018Daisy GraceIndustrialists, Mills

James Burton (1784–1868) was the owner of several cotton mills in Tyldesley and Hindsford in the mid-19th century.

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