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See also: English manufacturer, was See also: born on the loth of See also: September 1803, at See also: Morley, See also: Yorkshire
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In 182o he was apprenticed to learn wool-stapling at See also: Bradford, and his See also: father, having followed him there and started in that business, took him into partnership in 1824
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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
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In 1836 he solved the difficulties-See also: SALT 87
of working See also: alpaca (q.v.) wool, created an enormous industry in the 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
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In 1853 he opened, a few See also: miles out of the city on the See also: Aire, the extensive See also: works and See also: model manufacturing See also: town of Saltaire
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From 1859–1861 Salt was M
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P. for Bradford, of which city he had been mayor in 1848, and in 1869 he was created a See also: baronet
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He died on the loth of September 1876, and was accorded a public funeral
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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, See also: Sir Titus Salt, his See also: Life and its Lessons
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