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SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALT, See also:SIR See also:TITUS, See also:BART .(18o3–1876), See also:English manufacturer, was See also:born on the loth of See also:September 1803, at See also:Morley, See also:Yorkshire. In 182o he was apprenticed to learn See also:wool-stapling at See also:Bradford, and his See also:father, having followed him there and started in that business, took him into See also:partnership in 1824. His success in introducing the coarse See also:Russian wool (donskoi) into English worsted manufacture, due to See also:special machinery of his own devising, gave his See also:firm a See also:great impetus. In 1836 he solved the difficulties-SALT 87 of working See also:alpaca (q.v.) wool, created an enormous See also:industry in the See also:production of the See also:staple goods for which that name was retained, and became one of the richest manufacturers in Brad-See also:ford. In 1853 he opened, a few See also:miles out of the See also:city on the See also:Aire, the extensive See also:works and See also:model manufacturing See also:town of Saltaire. From 1859–1861 Salt was M. P. for Bradford, of which city he had been See also:mayor in 1848, and in 1869 he was created a See also:baronet. He died on the loth of September 1876, and was accorded a public funeral. After his See also:death his many benevolent institutions at Saltaire, at first continued by his widow, were transferred to a See also:trust. See R. Ealgarnie, Sir Titus Salt, his See also:Life and its Lessons.

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