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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
LS/942.51
Title
Derbyshire Gatherings : a Fund of Delight, for the Antiquary, The Historian, The Topographer, The Biographer, and the General reader : containing Portraits & Memoirs of Eminent Natives & Eccentric Characters of the County of Derby.
Date
1866
Publication Date
1866
Author
Robinson, Joseph Barlow
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Term
Prisoners of War
Churches
Bells
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Chantrey; Sir; Francis Leggatt (1781-1841); Sir; Sculptor, born Jordanthorpe near Norton , then in north Derbyshire.
Flamsteed; John (1646-1719); Born Denby, Derbyshire; appointed first Astronomer Royal in 1675.
Arkwright; Sir; Richard (1732-1792); knight, inventor and engineer
Strutt; Jedediah (1726-1797); inventor, hosier and cotton spinner
Evans; family; Darley Abbey; cotton spinners and paper mill owners
Oldknow; Samuel (1756-1828); Industrialist and textile manufacturer, Marple and Mellor area.
Nightingale; Florence (1820-1910); social reformer and statistician; founder of modern nursing
Slater; Samuel (1768-1835); Of Belper; English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution". He brought British textile technology to America, founding mills at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Places
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Type
Ashbourne
Bakewell
Castleton
Oakerthorpe
Risley
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