biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–76)
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| biography:
| Manufacturer and benefactor, born in Morley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He was a wool stapler at Bradford, started wool-spinning in 1834, and was the first to manufacture alpaca fabrics in England. Around his factories near Bradford he built the model village of Saltaire (1853), now a world heritage site. He was Mayor of Bradford (1848), its Liberal MP (1859–61), and he was created a baronet in 1869. |
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