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See also:RYLANDS, See also:JOHN (18o1-1888) , See also:English manufacturer and See also:merchant, was See also:born at St Helens, See also:Lancashire, on the 7th of See also:February 18o1, and was educated at the See also:grammar school in that See also:town. In 1819 he, his See also:elder See also:brothers and his See also:father, a manufacturer of See also:cotton goods, founded the See also:firm of Rylands & Sons, cotton goods and See also:linen manufacturers, at See also:Wigan. The business rapidly increased, dye-See also:works and bleach-works were added, and the See also:discovery of See also:coal under some of the firm's See also:property added materially to its See also:wealth. In 1825 the partners became merchant's as well as manufacturers, and subsequently acquired See also:spinning See also:mills at See also:Bolton and elsewhere. In 1847, his father being dead and his brothers having retired, John Rylands assumed entire See also:control of the business, which in 1873 was turned into a limited liability See also:company. It has mills at See also:Manchester, Bolton, and Wigan, and is now probably the largest concern of the See also:kind in See also:Great See also:Britain. John Rylands was a benefactor to various charities, and was one of the See also:original financiers of the Manchester See also:Ship See also:Canal. He died at Stretford on the 11th of See also:December 1888. A permanent memorial, the John Rylands Library, was erected by his widow in Manchester in 1899.
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