biography
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| lived:
| (1771–1858)
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| biography:
| Social and educational reformer, born in Newtown, Powys, E Wales, UK. Apprenticed to a draper, in 1800 he became manager and part owner of the New Lanark cotton mills, Lanarkshire (now a world heritage site), where he set up a social welfare programme, and established a ‘model community’. His socialistic theories were put to the test in other experimental communities, such as at Orbiston, near Glasgow, and New Harmony in Indiana, but all were unsuccessful. He was later active in the trade-union movement, and in 1852 became a spiritualist. |
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