The Arkwrights
Subtitle: spinners of fortune
By: R.S. Fitton.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Arkwright, Richard, Sir, 1732-1792.; Cotton manufacture -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: Richard Arkwright was born in Preston in 1732. He married Patience Holt in 1755 and had a son, Richard, in the same year. After Patience's death in 1756, he married Margaret Biggens in 1761. He passed away in 1792, and was buried at Smelting Mill Green, close to Cromford Bridge.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 300-307.
Includes index.