Person    | Male  Born 1732  Died 1792

Sir Richard Arkwright

Categories: Industry, Science

Industrialist and inventor.

From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.

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Sir Richard Arkwright

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