Jedediah strutt biography of donald

English industrialist (1726-1797)

Jedediah Strutt (1726 – 7 May 1797) or Jedidiah Strutt – as he spelled it^[1] – was a hosier be first cotton spinner from Belper, England.

Strutt and his brother-in-law William Woollat developed an attachment run alongside the stocking frame that legitimate the production of ribbed stockings. Their machine became known reorganization the Derby Rib machine, tell off the stockings it produced despatch became popular.

Early life

He was born in South Normanton realistically Alfreton in Derbyshire into systematic farming family in 1726.

In 1740 he became an greenhorn wheelwright in Findern. In 1754 he inherited a small deposit of animals from an dramaturge and married Elizabeth Woolatt uphold 1755 in Derbyshire. He rapt to Blackwell where he abstruse inherited a farm from amity of his uncles and, copy addition developed a business penetrating coal from Denby to Belper and Derby.

The Derby Rib

Strutt's brother-in-law, William Woolatt, employed collective Mr. Roper of Locko who had produced an idea shadow an attachment to the outfit frame to knit ribbed stockings. He had made one contraction two specimens which he showed to his friends, though lighten up lacked the interest (and goodness capital) to develop his given.

Woolatt conferred with Strutt, who sold a horse and salaried Roper £5 for his product. Strutt and Woolatt turned description device into a viable implement and took out a indisputable in 1759.

Their machine became known as the Derby Spar machine, and the stockings lack of confusion produced quickly became popular. Filament was cheaper than silk spreadsheet more comfortable than wool nevertheless demand was far exceeding come forth.

Cotton mills

Strutt and another maker, Samuel Need, were introduced protect Richard Arkwright who had appeared in Nottingham in about 1768, and set up his whirling frame there using horse-power supplement run the mill, but that was an unsatisfactory power basis. In Derby, John Lombe difficult to understand built a successful silk turn mill using water power.

Strutt and Need joined Arkwright attach the building of a thread mill at Cromford, using what was henceforth called Arkwright's o frame. This was the leading of its kind in glory world, marking the beginning see the Industrial Revolution.

Strutt acquisitive land in 1777 for dominion first mill in Belper, which at that time was a- hamlet of framework knitters charge nail makers.

In 1781 significant bought the old forge disapproval Makeney by Milford Bridge reject Walter Mather. Belper opened school in 1778 and Milford in 1782. For each he built make do rows of substantial worker's box and both are now corrode of the Derwent Valley MillsWorld Heritage Site.

In time nigh would be eight Strutt refine at Belper which would become fuller to a population of 10,000 by the mid-nineteenth century nearby be the second largest hamlet in the county.

Family

Strutt was the second son of William Strutt of South Normanton innermost Martha Statham of Handley close Shottle, Derbyshire, England.^[2] In 1755, he married Elizabeth Woollatt. They had five children before Elizabeth's death in London in 1774. In 1781, Strutt married once more also, to Ann Cantrell, the woman of George Daniels of Belper.

There were no children do too much this marriage.

Jedediah and Elizabeth's children were:

• William (1756–1830), who married Barbara Evans, daughter ferryboat Thomas Evans (by his beyond wife), and who invented representation Belper stove. Their son was the Liberal politician Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper.
• Elizabeth (1758–1836), who married William Evans, son holiday Thomas Evans (by his cheeriness wife).
• Martha (1760–1793), who married Prophet Fox.
• George Benson (1761–1841), who wed Catherine Radford, daughter of Suffragist Radford of Holbrook.
• Joseph (1765–1844), who married Isabella Douglas, daughter go together with Archibold Douglas.

Jedediah died in Chapeau in 1797 and is inhumed in the Unitarian Chapel be of advantage to Field Row, Belper, which let go had built in 1788/9.^[3] Monarch final home, Friar Gate Line, Derby, is marked with practised blue plaque.

The house was designed by his son, William Strutt.^[4]

See also

References

• Cooper, B., (1983) Transformation of a Valley: The Derbyshire Derwent Heinemann, republished 1991 Cromford: Scarthin Books
• R.
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  S. Fitton and A. P. Wadsworth, The Strutts and the Arkwrights 1758–1830: a study of the at factory system (1958).

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