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cotton-spinner
ˈcotton-spinner 1. a. A workman who spins cotton.1805 Med. Jrnl. XIV. 481 James Heywood, æt. 33, by trade a cotton-spinner, was admitted into the Manchester Infirmary. 1839 Carlyle Chartism iv. 131 Cotton-spinners are generally well paid. b. A master who employs workmen to spin cotton; the owner of ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Thomas Ashton (cotton spinner)
He did not attend school, and began working in a cotton mill at the age of eight. He undertook various jobs in the mill before replacing his father as a spinner. wikipedia.org
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William Edward Briggs
William Edward Briggs (24 September 1847 – 1903) was an English cotton manufacturer and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 He was a cotton-spinner and manufacturer in the firm of J and W E Briggs, which operated the Rose Hill Mill in Blackburn At the 1874 general election, wikipedia.org
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Robert C. Handley
Born in Bolton, Handley began working in a cotton mill as a half-timer at the age of ten. He eventually became a spinner, and joined the Preston Operative Cotton Spinners' Association, being elected as its treasurer, then as its secretary. wikipedia.org
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John Shuttleworth (industrialist)
He became a cotton dealer there, and was for a time a business partner of John Edward Taylor. In 1821 Shuttleworth provided support to Rowland Detrosier, finding him work in the factory of the cotton spinner Benjamin Naylor. wikipedia.org
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Strutt
Jedediah Strutt (1726–1797), hosier and cotton spinner John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), English physicist Joseph Strutt (engraver spinner See also Strutt's North Mill, Belper, England The Herbert Strutt School, Belper, England Strutt & Parker, a UK property consultancy Strut (disambiguation wikipedia.org
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William Dunn (industrialist)
His first situation was in the establishment of a cotton-spinner named Waddington, at Stockingfield, near Glasgow. All these works, lying near to each other, were exclusively applied to the spinning and weaving of cotton. wikipedia.org
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Jean-Claude Creusot
Jean-Claude Creusot (born 24 May 1826, Ferdrupt) was a French cotton spinner active in the workers' movement in Rouen. They had a daughter, Marie Henriette Creusot, who also became a spinner. wikipedia.org
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Macara baronets
It was created in 1911 for the Lancashire cotton-spinner, Charles Macara. Macara baronets, of Ardmore (1911) Sir Charles Wright Macara, 1st Baronet (1845–1929), cotton spinner. wikipedia.org
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Joseph Leigh
Sir Joseph Leigh (1841 – 22 September 1908) was a British Liberal Party politician and cotton spinner. Background He was the eldest son of Thomas Leigh, cotton spinner at Meadow Mill in Stockport. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School. wikipedia.org
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John Clowes Grundy
Life Born at Bolton, Lancashire, on 3 August 1806, he was the eldest son of John Grundy, a cotton-spinner there and Elizabeth Leeming, his wife. wikipedia.org
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James W. Whitworth
He became a cotton spinner, and in 1926 he was appointed as secretary of the Ashton-under-Lyne Operative Cotton Spinners' and Twiners' Association. Mayors of places in Greater Manchester People from Ashton-under-Lyne Presidents of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners Presidents wikipedia.org
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William Henry Hornby (1805–1884)
William Henry Hornby (1805–1884) an English cotton spinner, industrialist and politician. Life He was the son of the cotton spinner John Hornby (1763–1841) and his wife Alice Kendall Backhouse, daughter of Daniel Backhouse, born in Blackburn wikipedia.org
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Achyra affinitalis
Achyra affinitalis, the cotton web spinner, is a moth of the family Crambidae. wikipedia.org
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List of mills owned by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited
The Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited was incorporated 23 January 1929, and became the world's largest spinner of cotton. Lancashire Cotton Corporation Limited Cotton industry in England Lanc Lancashire Cotton Corp Lists of buildings and structures in Lancashire .Lancashire wikipedia.org
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