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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Sir Richard Arkwright
Greater London Council Sir Richard Arkwright, 1732 - 1792, industrialist and...
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garment and textile industries in the East End
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Chelsea Electricity Supply Co. Ltd
At British History we found this: "The Chelsea Electricity Supply Company, with premises in Draycott Place, empowered to supply electricity in 1886, commenced supply in 1889, in competition with th...
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Reeves & Sons Ltd
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unidentified mill in Great Sutton Street
Where there are six millstones surely there must have been a mill?
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Sir Proby Cautley
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Matthew Arnold
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Albert Charles Starr
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Garden House & Duke of Westminster
E1, Whitechapel Road, Royal London Hospital
The two plaques are on the building behind the statue. 2019: Londonist reported that this hospital is going "About To Undergo A Stunning...
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