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Arkwright, Richard Alleyne (1884-1965). Elder and only surviving son of Frederic Charles Arkwright (1853-1923) and his wife Rebecca Olton, daughter of Sir John Gay Newton Alleyne of Chevin (Derbys), born 1 September 1884. Educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. An officer in the Coldstream Guards, 1904-19 (2nd Lt., 1904; Lt., 1906; Capt., 1914; Adjutant, Reserve Brigade, 1917); ADC to Governor of Trinidad & Tobago, 1909-10. JP for Derbyshire. He married, 16 April 1912, Marjorie (1888-1965), second daughter of Frank Hardcastle MP and had issue: He died 18 December and was buried at Hatton (Warks), 26 December 1850; his will has not been traced. His widow died in 1855; her will was proved 1 November 1855.
The sale raised a good proportion of the money and work began on the roof, starting in the centre with the rotunda and working down and outwards to the valley gutters and the apex roof. ‘You’re never quite sure when you open up a listed building what you’re going to find,’ Kevin observes of the work that followed – a rolling programme of modernisation that will see all 44 bedrooms refurbished to add en suite bathrooms. Arkwright family of Willersley: family and business papers, 17th-20th cent. [Derbyshire Record Office, D7573] Arkwright, Peter (1784-1866). Third son of Richard Arkwright (1755-1843) and his wife Mary, daughter of Adam Simpson of Bonsall (Derbys), born at Bakewell (Derbys), 17 April 1784. Educated at Eton. Cotton-spinner, in partnership with his father, 1806-12 and later his brother Robert, 1812-32, after which Robert withdrew from the business to concentrate on running his estates. From the 1820s changes in demand, a failure to modernise the machinery, and a reduction in the water supply to Cromford Mills meant that the concerns ceased to be profitable and in the 1840s all his mills except Masson Mill closed. From 1829 he was also a partner in his father's bank, Richard Arkwright & Co., and he also had shares in the Cromford Canal. Captain in the Derbyshire Militia, 1803; JP and DL for Derbyshire; High Sheriff of Derbyshire, 1855. He married, 2 September 1805, Mary Anne (1786-1872), daughter of Charles Hurt of Wirksworth, and had issue: Lewis Paul had invented a machine for carding in 1748. Arkwright made improvements to this machine and in 1775 took out a patent for a new carding engine, which converted raw cotton to a continuous skein prior to spinning. [4]But does Open All Hours still have a place in our hearts and minds – and on our TV screens – today? The world of retail has changed beyond imagining since 1973. Errand boys are a vanished breed. And no-one could fail to be in love with the place. Many of its original features are still here, like the mirror piers in the dining room which make the place look even more majestic. Or the roof lights, especially the oval lantern of Thomas’s design. An oval rug on the floor of the corridor far beneath cunningly resembles the lantern in exact shape and design so that the light cast down on it makes the rug appear to be a mere reflection. HeartWhisky Wow! How fabulous. I have very bad wisteria envy now... http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1392855600/arkwrights_still__2__normal.jpg WhiskyAndWines 2023-05-23 18:16:28
Chapman, S. D. (1967), The Early Factory Masters: The Transition to the Factory System in the Midlands Textile Industry . The Guild, operating now under its trading arm, Christian Guild, has had it ever since. The company, which has four other hotels, chooses locations for just the same reasons in essence as people did 200 years ago, exulting that the hotels ‘are situated amongst the most beautiful and magnificent landscapes in England: lakes, sea views and woodland, the Peak District and the Jurassic Coast; they all provide a dramatic yet enchanting setting…’When Granville accused him of insulting people, Arkwright retorted: ‘It’s one of the few pleasures left to the undeserving poor.’ The whole town knew he wasn’t poor, of course, but they also knew he was too miserly to spend his takings.
There are some gaps in the genealogy of the more recent generations of the Arkwright family: can anyone tell me whether Anne Marjorie Selby (b. 1919) is still alive or provide more information about the descendants of her brothers? Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The American Cyclopaedia with a Wikisource referenceHewish, John (1987), "From Cromford to Chancery Lane: New Light on the Arkwright Patent Trials", Technology and Culture, 28 (1): 80–86, doi: 10.2307/3105478, JSTOR 3105478 . Another innovation was that Arkwright built decent quality housing for his workers so that it was possible to attract a workforce to the remote rural location. The surviving houses in North Street, Cromford were designed to accommodate weaving workshops in the attics so that the men of the families (the factories employed mainly women and children) could be gainfully employed. Sources Burke's Landed Gentry, 1965, pp. 22-24; The Builder, 15 June 1907; R.S. Fitton & A.P. Wadsworth, The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1958;Sir N. Pevsner & E. Williamson, The buildings of England: Derbyshire, 2nd edn., 1978, pp. 157-60; A. Stuart Grey, Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary, 1985, p. 294; R.S. Fitton, The Arkwrights: spinners of fortune, 1989; D. Verey and A. Brooks, The buildings of England: Gloucestershire - The Cotswolds, 1999, p. 725; B. Joyce & D. Buxton, ' Willersley Castle, Cromford', Derwent Valley Mills Research Report, 2011; M. Craven, ‘Willersley: an Adam castle in Derbyshire’, Georgian Group Journal, 2014, pp. 109-22; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography articles on Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-92) and Richard Arkwright (1755-1843). We will reopen at 10am on Tuesday 10th January 2023 for what will be the final week that the shop is open. A short walk away are Sir Richard Arkwright’s Masson Mills, built in the 18th century on the banks of the Derwent, designed to reflect the grandeur of its river gorge setting. Masson Mills now house a working textile museum. Visitors experience the atmosphere of a working 18th century cotton mill.
Tiredness and fatigue getting you down? The ‘miracle mineral’ magnesium could revitalise your energy and transform your sleep Arkwright instigated novel and highly disciplined working arrangements at Cromford. Work was organised in two 13-hour shifts per day, including an overlap for the change of shift. [ citation needed] Bells rang at 5am and 5pm and the gates were shut precisely at 6am and 6p.m.: anyone who was late was excluded from work for the rest of the day and lost an extra day's pay. Arkwright encouraged weavers with large families to move to Cromford. Whole families were employed, including large numbers of children as young as seven (subsequently increased to ten); and towards the end of his tenure, nearly two-thirds of the 1,150 employees were children. [ citation needed] He allowed employees a week's holiday a year, on condition that they did not travel beyond the town. Fitton, R. S. (1989), The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune, Manchester: Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-2646-6 . To strengthen his position in relation to his many competitors and emulators, Arkwright obtained a "grand patent" in 1775, which he hoped would consolidate his position within the fast-growing cotton industry. Public opinion, however, was bitterly hostile to exclusive patents, and in 1781 Arkwright initiated legal proceedings to assert his rights. The case dragged on in court until 1785, when it was finally settled against him on the grounds that his specifications were deficient: the court had also heard assertions that the spinning frame was actually the invention of Arkwright's employee John Kay, or of Thomas Highs, Kay's previous employer. [ citation needed] Factories and the factory system [ edit ] Masson Mill on the river Derwent, and Arkwright's house Willersley Castle, completed only after his death. Belper sits within the beautiful Derwent Valley, which is close to the Peak District and significant in world history as the birthplace of the factory system. Here, new types of building were erected to house ground-breaking technology for water-powered manufacturing. The system developed here was copied across the globe which is why the Derwent Valley Mills were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001.
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Wright wasn’t the only artist who felt moved to depict this beguiling stretch of the Derwent Valley. Derby Museums’ collection features, among many others, a watercolour of Arkwright’s Mills by the artist William Day (1864–1807), made during his tour of Derbyshire in 1789, and a Derby Porcelain plate painted by Zachariah Boreman (1738–1810), showing a view of the mills that is almost identical to that seen in Wright’s painting. The distinctive landscape no doubt played a part in drawing these artists to this area, but it is tempting too to wonder how much of a part Sir Richard and his mills played in this. A combination of recent high profile lawsuits relating to his patents for various improvements to existing mill machinery, his wealth and ‘larger than life’ character, coupled with the success and impact of his factory system, must have made for an attractive subject for these artists and their audiences. Willersley Castle is a Grade II* listed building built for Sir Richard Arkwright (who died before completion) and designed by the architect William Thomas of London. Three storeys with the centre-piece defined by projecting round turrets that extend above the full height of the building. A large and severe castellated house in extensive grounds. The interior retains a fine oval hall with galleries on upper storeys. (1) Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed id tortor tellus, quis venenatis ante. Mauris semper tincidunt consectetur. Nunc eget ligula enim. Donec consequat nunc et eros aliquet tincidunt accumsan nisl fermentum. Pellentesque viverra mauris non mi sodales et lobortis enim rutrum. Phasellus ut neque sed tortor malesuada tincidunt at a metus. Cras accumsan dolor nec lacus rhoncus venenatis. Nam congue tristique mi vitae tempor. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Suspendisse enim enim, eleifend non porta quis, aliquam in urna. Arkwright and John Smalley of Preston set up a small horse-driven factory at Nottingham. To obtain capital for expansion, Arkwright formed a partnership with Jedediah Strutt and Samuel Need, wealthy nonconformist hosiery manufacturers. In 1771, the partners built the world's first water-powered mill at Cromford, which covered both carding and spinning operations and employed 200 people. Charles Richard Francis Arkwright (b. 1960); married, 1987, Anne-Louise Marie-Noelle Miranda Josephine (b. 1962), daughter of Bernard Noel David George Terrence Kelly and had issue four daughters;
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