Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet was an English manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile m
Illustration of Salt, 1872
Bust of Titus Salt (not then a baronet) presented to him by his workforce in 1856 and now in Saltaire United Reformed Church.
Saltaire United Reformed Church is a church at Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England. Commissioned and paid for by Titus Salt in the mid 19th century, the church is a Grade I listed building and sits with
Titus Salt
…the number of people lining the route [of the funeral cortege, from Lightcliffe to Bradford to Saltaire] probably exceeded 100,000." Salt was buried at Saltaire Congregational Church as were his wife and many of his children. Joseph Rowntree (philanthropist…