Robert Hyde Greg
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Robert Hyde Greg, was an English industrialist, economist, antiquary, and briefly a Member of Parliament.
Robert Hyde Greg, portrait c.1845
Samuel Greg
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Samuel Greg was an Irish-born businessman and industrialist of the Industrial Revolution and a pioneer of the factory system. Born in Belfast, Ireland, he moved to England and built Quarry Bank Mill i
Robert Hyde Greg
…1795 – 21 February 1875), was an English industrialist, economist, antiquary, and briefly a Member of Parliament. Born in Manchester, he was the son of Samuel Greg and Hannah Lightbody, the creators of Quarry Bank Mill, a pioneering factory of the early Industrial Revolution. His family were Unitarians, part of…
c. 1820 portrait
Hannah Greg (née Lightbody)
Quarry Bank Mill
Some of the houses built by Greg for mill workers