An edition of The Arkwrights (1989)
The Arkwrights
spinners of fortune
By R. S. Fitton
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Publish Date
1989
Publisher
Manchester University Press,Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Language
eng
Pages
322
Description:
Richard Arkwright was born in Preston in 1732. He married Patience Holt in 1755 and had a son, Richard, in the same year. After Patience's death in 1756, he married Margaret Biggens in 1761. He passed away in 1792, and was buried at Smelting Mill Green, close to Cromford Bridge.
subjects: Cotton manufacture, Biography, Katoenindustrie, Baumwollindustrie, Ondernemers, Biografie
People: Richard Arkwright Sir (1732-1792)
Places: Great Britain