Arkwright; Sir; Richard (1732-1792); knight, inventor and engineer
Needham; Ellis (1760-1830); Farmer and landowner, of Litton, who set up a textile mill at Litton in 1782 with Thomas Frith. He became notorious for cruelty and ill-treatment of his child labourers.
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist