Arkwright, Sir Richard
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Arkwright, Sir Richard (1732–92). Born in Preston, one of thirteen children, Arkwright was apprenticed to a barber, and established a business in Bolton. Travelling around northern textile districts to buy hair for wig-making, Arkwright met craftsmen attempting to improve cotton production and lured John
Kay away from his employer in the 1760s; together they produced the water frame, a roller-spinning machine which Arkwright patented (1769). This, powered by water or a horse capstan, was the basis of Arkwright's fortune. His first horse-driven factory was established at Nottingham (1769) to supply Midland hosiers in partnership with Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt of Derby. In 1771 he moved to Cromford (Derbys.) and was dominant in the early cotton industry. Lancashire cottonmasters successfully attacked his patent (1781 and 1785), but Arkwright deserves the title of ‘father of the factory system’ because of his organization of production. Knighted (1786), he became high sheriff of Derbyshire in 1787.
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Arkwright: cotton king or spin doctor? (Richard Arkwright, entrepreneur of the Industrial Revolution)
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Was Richard Arkwright really the mechanical genius of the...Britain's first cotton tycoon. Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-92) is usually credited...the traditionally accepted view of Arkwright, the mechanical genius, and his...
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Arts Minister places temporary export bar on a portrait of Richard Arkwright with his wife Mary and daughter Anne, by Joseph Wright of Derby.
M2 Presswire; 2/18/2003; 700+ words
; ...for the famous cotton manufacturer Sir Richard Arkwright (senior) in the 1780s and 1790s. It...Arkwrights and Jedediah Strutt. The four Arkwright portraits, commissioned by Sir Richard Arkwright, represent the only known series of...
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pounds420,000 price tag for city artist's arkwright portrait
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 7/2/2008; ; 587 words
; ...British inventor and industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright to their collections. They have...was painted at the height of Sir Richard's powers during the mid-1780s...well as a picture of Sir Richard Arkwright in the gallery, which we have...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Johnnie and Arabella Arkwright.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 6/4/2005; 317 words
; Johnnie and Arabella Arkwright outside the canalside pub and restaurant The Waterman...celebrating its full re-opening. Owned by Johnnie Arkwright, a descendant of Sir Richard Arkwright, The Waterman has just undergone a pounds 1 million...
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Galleries team up to buy Wright's arkwright work
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 11/19/2008; 330 words
; ...portrait of the British inventor and industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright to their collections. The portrait was last exhibited...most of his working life in the city. Entrepreneur Sir Richard was one of the founders of the Industrial Revolution...
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Arkwright jnr was richest commoner in 1848 England Richard Arkwright the younger, known at one time as the richest commoner in England, left an estate of pounds1m when he died in 1848. Maxwell Craven examines his life and achievements prompted by the sale next week of a painting of the great man which, for nearly two centuries, hung in the Wirksworth Bank he founded in the 19th century.
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Arkwright shop fight intensifies
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 3/10/2006; 432 words
; ...Ronnie Barker, who played grocer Arkwright in the BBC's sitcom Open All...managed to get big names like Sir David Jason, who played Granville in the series, Terry Wogan, Sir David Frost, Stephen Fry, Richard Briers, Bernard Cribbins...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Lakelands jobs plea; Not enough is being done, union leaders tell Sir Reg.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 5/5/2001; 554 words
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Cotton: peril and promise; Gentle and breathable to wear; harsh and suffocating to work with. Richard Swift unpicks the world's favourite fabric.(INTRODUCTION)
Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
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Museum bids to buy inventor's portrait.
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; ...heroes back to his birthplace. Sir Richard Arkwright helped kickstart the Industrial...000 to buy an oil portrait of Arkwright by painter Joseph Wright of Derby...deemed the best likeness of Sir Richard by his children, has been passed...
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Sir Richard Arkwright
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Richard Arkwright The English inventor and industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) developed several inventions which mechanized the making of yarn and thread for the textile industry. He also helped to create the factory system...
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Arkwright, Sir Richard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Arkwright, Sir Richard (1732–92). Born in Preston, one of thirteen children, Arkwright was apprenticed to a barber, and established...districts to buy hair for wig-making, Arkwright met craftsmen attempting to improve...
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Textile Mills
Book article from: American Eras
...Background . In 1769 British inventor Sir Richard Arkwright devised a mechanized system for...Englishman familiar with the Arkwright machinery. Brown had set up...reproduced a wa-terpowered Arkwright textile mill from memory in Pawtucket...
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