Richard Arkwright
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Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known
Portrait of Richard Arkwright, oil on canvas, by Mather Brown, 1790. New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut.
Susannah Arkwright, Mrs Charles Hurt (1762–1835), and her daughter Mary Anne (painting by Joseph Wright of Derby)
Arkwright's mill at Cromford
Masson Mill on the River Derwent, and Arkwright's house Willersley Castle, completed only after his death.
Richard Arkwright junior
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Richard Arkwright junior, the son of Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford in Derbyshire, was a mill owner, turned banker, investor and financier of many successful state and private entreprises of the Br
Richard Arkwright
…the time, the income from which later funded his prototype cotton machinery. Arkwright married his first wife, Patience Holt, in 1755. They had a son, Richard Arkwright Junior, who was born the same year. Patience died in 1756, and then in 1761 Arkwright, aged 29, married Margaret Biggins. They had three children, of whom…
Richard Arkwright Jr. by George Philip Reinagle
Richard with his daughter, by Joseph Wright
Richard Arkwright senior, by Joseph Wright (1790)